OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 195 



" 880 B. C." (Euseb. and Clint i. p. 23 and 166, Diodorus' numbers giving 1169 — "92 — 85 — 

 79 — 2 3 — 2 5 years " = 865, a difference that would carry back these numbers to one of the false-dates 

 for the fall of Troy), " Sixth " change in naval dominion. Leaving the Phrygians, the " Empire of 

 the sea " acquired by the Cyprians. — Held by them " thirty-three " years. 



The same year (= 917 — " 37 years" of Apollod., Diodor., and Euseb. i. p. 166), Labotas suc- 

 ceeded by his son Doryssus, as one of the two Spartan kings ; the fifth in the Agid line. 



879 B. C. (= 886 y. 357^ d. — "8 years " of 2 K. viii. 17 and 2 Chron. xxi. 5), Jehoram succeeded 

 at Jerusalem by his son Ahaziah, ninth Jewish king. 



In company with Joram king of Israel, he warred against Hazael king of the Syrians at Damascus 

 (2 K. viii. 28, and 2 Chron. xxii. 5). 



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



The Chinese characters containing the sign for silk not found beyond the Tcheou dynasty — 

 by Hiu-chin : silk is alluded to in the Chinese inscription on the Heng-chan mountain, erroneously 

 attributed to Yu (Pauth. p. 48 and 54) ; and is mentioned in the Chou-King. Westward, "serika" 

 or silk stuffs were seen in Hindustan by Nearchus (Strab. xv. 1. 20) : and were known in the Med- 

 iterranean countries to Horace, Propertius, Suetonius, and Martial ; though the Chinese manufacture 

 continued so rare and costly, that the emperor Elagabalus is accused of being the first Roman who 

 wore a silken dress. 



Morus alba of China and Japan. Called in English gardens white mulberry, in Egypt "tout" 

 (Del.) ; and the "mulberry" mentioned in one of the three odes complaining of the cruelty of the 

 emperor Li-wang — (preserved in the Chi-King, Pauth. p. 101), and in connexion with "silk-worms" 

 in the Chou-King, may be compared : M. alba was observed by Bunge p. 60 " as though spontaneous " 

 on the mountains of Northern China ; by Kaempfer, and Thunberg, in Japan, regarded as indigenous 

 and called " iammagua" or "kago kadsura." Westward, occurs growing spontaneously in the region 

 South and Southwest of the Caspian (Mey., Hohen., and A. Dec), but was unknown in the Mediter- 

 ranean countries in the days of Pliny xv. 29, who asserts that the berries of the " moris " in the end 

 turn black : seeds or cuttings according to some authorities accompanied the living silk-worms that 

 were brought from Central Asia in the reign of Justinian ; but Targioni found the opinion prevailing 

 in Italy, that cuttings were "brought from the East in 1434 by Fr. Buonvicini : " the tree has become 

 naturalized in Armenia, Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece, and Italy (Fraas, Griseb., and Poll.) ; was seen 

 by Forskal in gardens at Constantinople ; by him, Delile, and Clot-Bey, in the gardens of Egypt ; 

 and is known to be cultivated throughout middle Europe. By European colonists, was carried to 

 Northeast America, where it continues in gardens ; to the Tropical islands of the Pacific, observed by 

 myself on the Taheitian and Hawaiian Groups ; and to Hindustan (Royle him. 337, and Graham), 

 but I was informed at Bombay that the cultivation does not succeed. 



The same year (= 877 y. 317$!$ d - = S8 9 J- l8 7|fl d - — " I2 y ears " of twelve lunations of 2 K. 

 iii. 1, the line of Judah giving 878 y. 357^ d. — " 1 year" of 2 K. viii. 26 = 877 Y- 357A d -)> 

 Ahaziah, with Joram and his mother Jezebel, all slain by Jehu. Whose accession therefore syn- 

 chronous with that of Athaliah, mother of Ahaziah. 



The name of Jehu king of Israel occurs in cuneiform letters in an inscription at Nineveh — 

 (according to . . . . and Layard). This therefore the earliest inscription in Assyrian or cuneiform 

 ■writing whose date is ascertained. 



The deity on the Assyrian monuments having the human face and feet and the body of a fish, is 

 clearly Oannes, already mentioned. 



The two-humped or Bactrian camel, Camelus Bactrianus, is figured on the Nimroud obelisk and 

 other monuments at Nineveh: — also at Persepolis, and on the Etruscan vases (Layard pi. 53 and 

 55, Bonom. pi. 178, and Mon. inediti pi. 50). The two-humped camel is described by Aristotle; 

 and is the kind employed by the Tartars of Northeastern and Central Asia, to the Crimea and Cau- 

 casus. Though unknown farther South, in Arabia ; the animal has probably been sometimes brought 

 as a curiosity into Egypt. 



" 876 B. C. About this time " (Clint, i. p. 206 and 214), Second irruption of the Cimmerians 

 into Asia Minor. 



875 B. C. = " 28th year of Sesonk III.," birth of an Apis or sacred bull ; the latest date in his 

 reign found on the monuments — (Leps. k. tab. pi. 19, and Birch). 



872 B. C. (= 877 y. 3573% d. — "6 years " of 2 K. xi. 3), queen Athaliah slain. Succeeded at 

 Jerusalem by Joash or Jehoash, son of Ahaziah and now eleventh Jewish king. 



870 B. C. (= 991 — " 121 yrs " of the Egyptian Chronicle = 989 y. 8 mo. — " 120 

 "yrs " of the Afr.-Maneth. table, the Euseb.-Maneth. table giving 822 y. 8 mo. -\- "49 

 yrs " = 871 y. 8 mo., and the monuments 875 — " 26 + 20th" = 869), Sesonk III. suc- 

 ceeded by Pekhi or Pamai, eighth king of the Twenty-second dynasty. His name — 

 has been found only on the tablet of the Apis or sacred bull at the Serapeum (Birch). 



