OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 21 I 



♦ w " Th !. v™, y ear:=end of the Cali Yug, or Iron Age," among the Hindus (Graha Munjari 

 tables, andJJentley as. res. viii. 244). The authorship of the First table not earlier therefore than 

 this date. 



763 B. C. (= 753 -\- « 10 yrs " of both Maneth. tables), Osorho succeeded by Psam- 

 mous, third king of the Twenty-third dynasty. The name of king Psimut occurs on 

 the temple at Karnak, and on the ruins of a small building in the immediate vicinity — 

 (Leps. k. pi. 46, and Glid. analect). 



759 B. C. (= 803 — "44 years" = 715 -j- "44 years" of the Egyptian 

 Chronicle and Euseb.-Maneth. table = 753 -f "6 years" of the Afr.-Maneth. 

 table), accession of VohhSris the Saite, only king of the Twenty-fourth dynasty. 

 The name of king Bokenrenf occurs on contemporaneous monuments — (Leps. k. 

 pi. 46). 



Echinops sftinosus of the Desert and its borders from the Atlantic to Hindustan. A species 

 of globe thistle called, in Egypt "khachyr" or " sjok edsjemmel" camel thorn or thistle (Del., and 

 Forsk.) ; and the Egyptian " sarshamoul " — (ms. Par.) may be compared ; also the " akantha 16uke " 

 of Hellanicus, Theophrastus, and Dioscorides : E. spinosus was observed by Forskal, Delile, and 

 myself in the Egyptian Desert, sought for by camels according to Forskal although so full of thorns, 

 farther North, is termed " echinopus creticus capite magno aculeato " by Tournefort cor. 34 ; was 

 observed by Sibthorp on Cyprus and the Greek islands, by Chaubard, in arid open situations in the 

 Peloponnesus ; and Westward, by Desfontaines ii. p. 310 in Barbary (Pers.). Eastward from Egypt, 

 the " E. echinatus " of Roxburgh, and Graham, as growing on the Deccan, appeared to me identical. 

 " 758 B. C." (= 746 -f- " 12 years " of Diodor , Euseb., and Clint.), and (according to Diodorus' 

 numbers) forty-one years after the death of his father Aristodemus, accession of Telestes as eleventh 

 king of Corinth. Telestes was in the fifth generation from Bacchis. 



7S7 B. C. (= 804 y. 49i|£ d - — " 5°th year " of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 23), Menahem 

 succeeded by his son Pekahiah, seventeenth king of Israel. 



" The same year " (Aristot, Euseb., and Clint, i. p. 338), Ephori instituted, or at least invested 

 with political importance by Theopompus, one of the two Spartan kings; the ninth in the Proclid 

 line. (The accession of Theopompus, is however placed by Apollodorus' numbers seven years later). 

 A saying of Theopompus is extant — (Plut. pol. praec. p. 816). 



" 756 B. C." ( . . . . argum. Chi- King i. 5. 1), death of Ou-kong, king of Ouei. 

 " In this year " (Euseb., and Clint, i. p. 156), on the Black Sea, Trapezus or Trebizond founded by 

 Milesian Greeks from Sinope. 



755 B. C. (= 804 y. 49j|f d. — " 52d year" of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 27 = 756 y. 217JU 

 d. — " 2 years " of twelve lunations of 2 K. xv. 23), Pekahiah slain and succeeded by Pekah, eigh- 

 teenth king of Israel. 



Isaiah i. 1 prophesying before the accession of Jotham. — and as late as the reign of Hezekiah. 

 Cuminum cy milium of Abyssinia. Called in English gardens cummin (Ainsw.), in French 

 "cumin" (Nugent), in German " Romischer kummel," in Italian " comino " or "cymino " (Lenz), in 

 Greece "kumino" (Fraas), in Egypt "kammoun" (Del.), in Egyptian "thapgn" or "tapen" (transl. 

 Matth.) or"tapn"(ms. Par.); in which we recognize the 1"1>l kmn cultivated in Palestine in the 

 days of Isaiah xxviii. 25 to 27, — the "kuminon" of Matthew xxiii. 23, and the Egyptian kind of 

 Hippocrates (Plin.), and Dioscorides : C. cuminum was observed by Abd-allatif, Delile, Clot-Bey, 

 and myself, a favorite object of cultivation in Egypt. Farther North, the " kumin5n " is mentioned 

 by Aristophanes, Theophrastus, Nicander ; " kuminon emSron " by Dioscorides as cultivated espe- 

 cially in Asia Minor; and "kumino " seeds imported from Smyrna were found by Fraas much used 

 in Greece. Westward, the "cuminum" or "cyminum" is mentioned by Horace, Persius, Columella, 

 and Apicius, doubtless the imported seeds, but a kind brought from Africa is enumerated by Pliny 

 xx. 37: C. cyminum is described by Morison ix. pi. 2; and is occasionally seen in gardens in Italy 

 and middle Europe (Cav. iv. pi. 360, Pers., and Lenz). Eastward from Palestine, was observed by 

 Graham at Bombay, "cultivated in gardens " and called "zeera ; " by Roxburgh, and Wight, in other 

 parts of Hindustan, the seeds throughout according to Drury "being much in use as a condiment: " 

 by Mason v. 496, "exotic " in Burmah and called "zee-ya," said to be "occasionally cultivated," the 

 seeds "a common article in the market." As imported into Britain, the seeds according to Lindley 

 although "carminative " are " chiefly used in veterinary surgery." 



Pulicaria odora of the Mediterranean countries. Called in Greece "agrioskarphi " (Fraas), in 

 Egypt " ghobbeyreh " (Del.), in Yemen " chaa '' or "munis" or "neschusch" (Forsk.), by the 

 prophets " kronos " (Syn. Diosc.) ; in which we recognize the f""11^0H notzwtz of Isaiah vii. 19, — and 

 lv. 13 : P. odora was observed by Lippi in Egypt, by Delile in the Desert environs of Suez, and by 

 Forskal p. 150 under cultivation everywhere in Yemen for its pleasant odour, edible leaves, medicinal 

 use, and its flowers worn in garlands. Farther North, the " konuza arrSn " of Theophrastus vi. 



