OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 



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Samlah succeeded by Shaul or Saul of Rehoboth, sixth king of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 37, and 1 

 Chron. ii. 10). 



The same year = " 15th year of Ramessu III.," on the monuments — (C. Mull. fr. Man. p. 589). 



Ships of war first employed on the Red Sea by (" Sesostris," according to Herodotus ii. 101, 

 meaning probably) Ramessu III. 



The same year (= 1257 -)- " 9 years" of Castor in Euseb. i. p. 134), Cecrops succeeded by 

 Cranaus, third Attic king (reigning however according to some authorities as early as Deucalion's 

 conquest, Apollod. iii. 14, 15). 



" 1265 B. C. = 1st year of Tsou-keng, of the Chang " or Fourth dynasty — (Chinese chron. table). 



In the " sixth generation " before the fall of Troy (Clint, i. p. 45 to 56), first appearance of Aeolus 

 or Aeolic Greeks in Thessaly. 



Nyctimus succeeded by Areas (of the " sixth " generation before the fall of Troy, Clint.), son 

 of Callisto and now fourth king of Arcadia (Paus. viii. 4. 1). 



1259 B. C. (= 1247 -\- " 12 years " of Apollod. iii. 14. 15, Castor giving only " 10 years " ), and 

 " in the reign of Sthenelas " (Tat, and Clem. Alex.), Cranaus expelled by his son-in-law Amphictyon, 

 now fourth Attic king : a "son of Deucalion," and therefore Hellenic in opposition to the Pelasgians. 

 — The tomb of Cranaus in the demos of Lamprae continued extant in the days of Pausanias i. 31. 3. 



" 1258 B. C. = 1st year of Tsou-kia, of the Chang" or Fourth dynasty— (Chinese chron. table). 



The same year (= 1269 — " n years " = 991 -f " 105 -f 162 years " of Castor in Euseb. i. p. 

 129 to 131, see also Apollod. ii. 1. 4, and Pausan. ii. 16. 1 and 19. 3), in Greece, by consent of the 

 people and of Gelanor son of Sthenelas, Danaus made eleventh king at Argos. 



The acropolis at Argos (according to some authorities, Strab. viii. p. 371) built by Danaus, 

 received the name of " larissa ; " and from this spot, the migrations of the Pelasgian Greeks can be 

 traced by a city of this name founded in each new settlement. Seventeen Larissas are enumerated : 

 including one, only " thirty-five " miles from Nineveh ; one in Lydia ; one mentioned by Homer under 

 the name of " Argissa," in Thessaly; one in Mitylene ; two in Crete ; one in Attica ; and one in Italy 

 (Xenoph., Dionys., Strab., Pausan., Stephan. Byz., and Clint, i. p. 25). 



The same year = "24th year of Ramessu III.," on the monuments (Champ. -Fig. p. 347). His 

 name is also inscribed on an older obelisk, — the one removed to and now standing at Alexandria 

 (Leps. eg. and sin. p. 42). 



" 1257 B. C. = 2d year of Tsou-kia" (Chinese chron. table), beginning of the Twenty-fourth 

 cycle. 



As early perhaps as this date (Graha Munjari tables, Puranas, and Bentley as. res. viii. p. 232), 

 Causica reigning in Hindustan. 



1256 B. C. = " 26th year of Ramessu III. ; " the latest date in his reign found on the monu- 

 ments — (Leps. k. tab. p. 19). 



1 vv 1 (two heads, a man looking inward, and a woman looking outward, signifying "phulakterion " 

 J J &- safeguard or amulet, Horap. i. 24) ; " nahvi " head ; " natsh " protection ; " natshperi " charm, 

 amulet; "v66n" amulet, evil eye, " voone" " hurt, damage, (the superstition of the evil eye being at 

 least as ancient as this date). — The character occurs under the Seventh Ptolemy (Leps. d. iv. 

 pi. 25). 



Strings of a great variety of small articles in pottery or carved in stone are found on Egyptian 

 mummies, — and one of these strings carried by myself to Zanzibar was recognized by a native as an 

 amulet: those tied around the head of Zanzibar infants differing merely as I soon perceived in the 

 selection of natural objects. Northward from Egypt, the amulet " pgriapton " is mentioned by Plato 

 polit. iv. 426; " vaskania " witchcraft and the envious eye, by Plato phaed. 100, and Demosthenes 

 coron. 291 . 21 : and in Italy we find " fascia " and " fascinum," the god " Fascinus," and " amuleti " 

 tied on infants (Plin. xxviii. 7 and xxxvii. 12. See phylactery). 



In the reign of Ramessu III., ornamental wood-work carried to great perfection at Thebes. In 

 his tomb at Bab-el-meluk, cushioned chairs are figured ; with other cabinet furniture, richly carved, 

 and in some instances presenting unexpected coincidence with the most approved patterns of the 

 present day. 



Lagenaria vulgaris of Eastern Hindustan. The gourd is called in France " gourde " or " cale- 

 basse " (Nugent), by the Turks " tatli-chappach," in Yemen "dubbadybbe " (Forsk.) and one variety 

 in Egypt "qara' debbeh " (Del.), in Egyptian " shlo " (ms Par.) or "fent-shlot " (transl. Sept. Jonah 

 iv. 6), and the Cucurbitaceous plant without flowers or fruit figured in this tomb — and that of a later 

 king of the same dynasty, seems to correspond: the"kara"is mentioned by Ebn Baitar ; and L. 

 vulgaris was observed in Egypt by Abd-allatif, Forskal, Delile, and by Rauwolf in Syria. Farther 

 North, the " kolokunte " is mentioned by Hermippus, Aristophanes, Theophrastus, its "lily-like" 

 flower by Diphilus, and Zenobius, and the " kolokuntha " by Dioscorides as edible and holding wine ; 

 the "cucurbita" is mentioned by Cato, by Varro as curved in shape, by Propertius as swollen at one 



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