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An Essay on the Relationship of 



[Jaw, 



shesh } tt i 

 shishah j[ Hebrew ^ 



i j u cmost anci- 

 shedesh, J ent Hebr> 



Csittat, Arabic 



Jsadisa (the sixth) 

 < Arab, 

 sitta, Maltese, 



-i 



Tamul and 

 Karnat. 



yotn, Armenian 

 yedu, Turkish 



hetu, Tahitian. < 

 f., v Cocoa Isl. 

 nia ' <New Guinea 



wythou, Moses-Isl. 

 shibxah, Hebrew 

 sab*at, Arabic 

 sebgha, (seb^a) Malta 



sieben, German 



samaniyat, Arabic 

 tmegnia, Maltese. 



niolz, Hungarian. 



Engl. 



Icelandic 



osm, 

 utn, 



ottu 



en In, 



Boh e in. 

 Armen. 



> Tamul. 

 Karnataka. 



seven, 

 sio, 



" f- Tamul 

 bin, ) 



elu, Karnat. 



Remarks— I. I have compared the numerals of other nations, cer- 

 tainly not related to the Caucasian race, and have not found the least 

 approach to an analogy, except those few which occur in the South-Sea- 

 Islands. Some such numerals are the following : 



Chili. 1., Agga2., Eppo. 3., Quita, 4., Meli. 5, Quecku. 6, Cuyn. 



Mexico : Ce. Ome. lei. Nahny. 



Viginia : Negut Neesi Nish. Yau. Napan Negutta 



Karonas 5 t'r ko. > f , v ^ . i, i ty natahshe tahshe 



Hottentots} eit J t x koam. t n norma, hakka. 



Africans near the river nx i n n> i x'ir 4 * 



Camerones. \ Mo * Ba * Melella - Meleg. Matan, cet. 



2. The preceding list of the numerals of the Caucasian race, shows 

 that the roots of the numerals three and seven, have spread farthest, 

 even to the South-Sea-Islands. It is remarkable that just these are the 

 sacred numbers, and this fact may be considered as a collateral proof 

 that Noachic traditions were preserved long in the minds even of na- 

 tions so remote. Moreover we find that the root of the numeral seven, 

 or shibgha (Heb.) occurs in several Indo-European or Caucasian lan- 

 guages, expressing sacred actions ; e.g. sevyoti in Sanscrit, and svetit in 

 Slavonic, mean, he worships ; aefteiv in Greek means the same ; sebam 



(O^LJLd) j n Sanscrit and Tamul means prayer ; even sabbath appears 

 to be derived from the same root and to have meant originally " the 

 seventh day 1 's rest, the sacred rest ;" although in the Hebrew, as far as 

 that language has been preserved to us in the Old Testament, the verb 



