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as Britain (Pers., Wats., and A. Dec.)- According to Virey, the seeds are poisonous, producing 

 weakness of the extremities when mixed with flour and made into bread (Lindl.). 



902 B. C. — " 14th year of Takelut II.," on the monuments — (Leps. k. tab. p. 19). 



901 B. C. = " 15th year of Takelut II.," death of an Apis or sacred bull — (Birch). 



The same year (914 y. 8 mo. — " 13 years " of both Maneth. tables, giving 902), 

 TakSlSthis succeeded by the seventh king of the Twenty-second dynasty. The name 

 of king Sesonk III. occurs on contemporaneous monuments (Leps. k. pi. 46). 



One hundred and second generation. Jan. 1st, 900, mostly beyond youth : the 

 prophet Elijah. 



899 B. C. (= 931 y. 4 mo. — " 32 years " of Phoenician annals in Menand. Ephes., and Jos. c. A.), 

 end of the reign of the Phoenician king Eithobalus or Ethbaal. (On comparing the biblical account, 

 the deficit of 18 or 19 years between Eusebius' numbers and their given sum, seems to fall after this 

 event, rendering the dates of the succeeding reigns uncertain to the same amount). The List makes 

 Eithobalus succeeded at Tyre by Badezar ; aged thirty-nine (= "45—6"), and who reigned " six" 

 years. 



" 897 B. C. = 13th year of Hiao-wang " (Chinese chron. table), beginning of the Thirtieth cycle. 



Ornithogalum umbellatum of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. Called in Britain 

 star-of-BethUhem (Prior) translated into Welsh " seren Fethleem" (Davies), in Germany " vogel- 

 milch " (Grieb), in France " ornithogale " (Nugent), in Italy '• latte di gallina" (Lenz), in Greece 

 "mouniklia" or " agrios krinos " (Fraas) ; and the ^N^KANVk thbywnym sold in Samaria besieged 

 by Ben Hadad — (2 K. vi. 25) is referred here by Linnaeus : the "ornithos gala " is mentioned by 

 Nicander (Athen. ix. 12); the " ornithogalon " by Dioscorides as having an edible bulbous root, 

 umbelled flowers herbaceous outside and milky within ; and is identified by Ebn Baitar with the 

 " sasali " of Elgafaki : O. umbellatum was observed by Hasselquist in Palestine ; by Sibthorp, 

 Chaubard, and Fraas, frequent in cultivated and fallow ground from the Peloponnesus throughout 

 Greece. Westward, the account of the "ornithogale" by Pliny xxi. 62 seems chiefly taken from 

 Dioscorides; O. umbellatum is described by Dodoens pi. 221 ; is termed " o. u. medium angusti- 

 folium" by Tournefort inst. 378; is known to occur in fallow ground from Italy throughout middle 

 Europe as far as Sweden (Hall., Pers., and A. Dec.) ; was already in Britain in the days of Gerarde 

 p. 133, but is regarded by Ray, Babington, and Watson, as exotic and only naturalized. By European 

 colonists, was carried to Northeast America, where it has become naturalized, occurring especially in 

 the grass-grown clearings of New England. 



" 894 B. C. = 1st year of I-wang, of the Tcheou " or Fifth dynasty — (Chinese chron. table). 



"The same year"( Wilk. theb. and eg. p. 514), "money first coined of gold and silver 



at Argos " in Greece. 



893 B. C. (= 899 y. 4 mo. — " 6 years "of Phoenician annals in Menand. Ephes., and Jos. c. A.), 

 not earlier than this date, the accession at Tyre of Matgenus ; aged twenty-three (=" 32 — 9"), 

 and who reigned " nine " years. 



892 B. C. (=9i2y. 291JA5J d. — "22 years " of twelve lunations of 1 K. xvi. 29), Ahab and 

 Jehoshaphat warring against the Syrians, and Ahab slain in battle. He was succeeded by his son 

 Ahaziah, eighth king of Israel. 



By Jehoshaphat, ships built at Ezion-geber on the Red Sea : servants of king Ahaziah were 

 refused admittance; and " the ships were broken," and " went not" on the proposed voyage "to 

 Ophir for gold " — (1 K. xxii. 48, and 2 Chron. xx. 36). 



890 B. C. (= 89T y. i65|J|- d. — "2 years" of twelve lunations of 1 K. xxii. 51), Ahaziah suc- 

 ceeded by his brother Joram, ninth king of Israel. 



The war with the revolted Moabites brought to a close by the besieged king of Moab offering 

 "upon the wall" his own son for "a burnt offering" — (2 K. iii. 4 to 27). 



Cucumis? prophctarum of the Tropical Sahara from the Atlantic to Arabia. The +1 O P 1 phkowd 

 gathered for Elisha — (2 K. iv. 39) is referred here by Linnaeus : the " lifiyat " according to Abul 

 Abbas Elhafits is called "alkam" in the Hedjaz, grows also in Phoenicia and Upper Egypt with fruit 

 like that of Momordica but prickly, and according to Ebn Baitar is frequent in Upper Egypt and 

 called " damahir." C. prophetarum is described by Linnaeus, and Jacquin hort. pi. 9 ; is known to 

 grow in Africa and Arabia (Pers.); was observed by myself in Upper Egypt, spreading on the soil of 

 the Desert, its fruit covered with soft prickles. " C. anguria " observed by Forskal p. 168 near 

 Mocha, may be compared ; also the plant carried to the West Indies under that name (Mill. diet. pi. 

 33, and Pers.). 



887 B. C. (=911 y. 3S7A d - — " 2 5 years" of 1 K. xxii. 42), Jehoshaphat succeeded at Jerusa- 

 lem by his son Jehoram, eighth Jewish king. He married a daughter of Ahab (2 K. viii. 18). 



In the reign of Jehoram (2 K. viii. 20), revolt of the Edomites. Who succeeded in establishing 

 their independence, and " made a king over themselves." 



