282 CHEV. W. P. JERVIS, F.G.S., ON THE MINERALS, ETC. 



(Ex. xxxviii, 25-27), thus indicating that Jehovah's glory, revealed to 

 man, is founded in atonement. 



Brass (or copper) and iron indicate judgment, hard affliction, 

 severity and strength ; thus the serpent made by Moses and raised 

 up on a pole was of brass : and the brazen sockets of the outer 

 court of the tabernacle, Ex. xxvi, 37, xxvii, 10, speak of judgment. 

 "Your heaven as iron and your earth as brass " (Lev. xxvi, 19), 

 denotes severe afflictions ; breaking and ruling "with a rod of iron," 

 (Ps. ii, 9, Eev. ii, 27) indicates severity ; " bones like bars of iron " 

 (Job xl, 18), and "gates of brass and . . . bars of iron " (Ps. 

 cvii, 16) denote strength. 



Statement by the Author, July 14th, 1905. 



Dr. Pumpell, in excavating the abundant ruins of Anan, near 

 Askabad in Turkestan, found beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian and 

 turquoise. This dates back to the remotest antiquity, but I do not 

 know of sapphires in any remains of Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek or 

 Roman cities. Askabad is not far from the Caspian Sea. It is 

 not far from Central Asia, where I believe many once great cities 

 lie buried under blown sands of what was, in the earliest ages, the 

 great inland sea of Central Asia. Surely, as at Nineveh and Babylon 

 we shall shortly learn an immense deal about their building 

 materials, as well as their economic mineralogy. Possibly these 

 cities may be even partly antediluvian. 



