$2* HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



proximation to the period at which the Deluge may be supposed to have 

 occurred,* and to which event therefore the tradition really relates. 



* The ordinary computations place this event A. C. 2349, but late writers of equal research and 

 "various sentiments agree in considering: this too recent. — Dom Clement. " L'Axt de verifier les dates," 

 make its date A. C. 3310. (Journal Des Savans. Fevrier, 1820). A writer in the Classical Journal (Sir 

 Wm. Drummond apparently) estimates the date 3128 years before the birth of Christ (C. J. 24. 153) 

 and the Rev. G. C. Faber, following the chronology of the Samaritan Pentateuch, places the Deluge 

 A. C. 2938. (Origin of Pagan Idolatry, vol. iii. 609.) Even then if we admit the original chronology 

 without alteration, it will not be very far beyond the first of these periods, and it comes within the li- 

 mits of the two hundred theories of Christian writers, which have taken a range of from 6984 to 3616, 

 for the number of years that elapsed between the creation and the commencemeni of our aera. 



