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it is pure English, if you wish to say you mean to deal pugilistically with a 
man, to assert that you “ cuff” him. 
The Rev. H. G. Tomkins. — I think it is probable. You know that Icaph 
is the hand to smite with. > 
Mr. Trelawnet Saunders. — One of the previous speakers has alluded to 
the probable influence of Phoenician commerce in the distribution of these 
Oriental terms. I agree with him ; and with reference to the word 
“ Bosheth,” the meaning of which is ‘‘folly,” is it not synonymous with the 
word we now so frequently use to express “ folly,” — the word “ bosh ” ? 
The Rev. H. G. Tomkins. — I think that is quite right. 
Mr. Trelawnet Saunders. — Then we have the word “ Babel,” which 
means “ confusion.” I quite agree with what Mr. Rassam said on that 
subject, in which I follow the leading of Holy Writ, though I also remember 
that “ Babel ” means not only confusion, but that “ babbler,” which is 
Johnsonian English, is still in use among us. Of course, I do not mean you 
to conclude from all this that we are part of the ten tribes, or anything of 
the sort. Well, then, there is an allusion to the “ land of Naharina.” This 
has always been regarded as IMesopotamia, between the Euphrates and the 
Tigris ; but I believe it very seldom, if ever, occurs in that sense in the 
Bible. Whenever Mesopotamia is mentioned in the Bible, it is referred 
to the rivers of Damascus ; but that is a very questionable point. 
Then, again, we have a curious word in “Takhtim-Khodshi.” “ Takht” 
is a common word at the present day. On the borders of the Indus you 
have, looking down from the height of 12,000 feet, the Takht-i- Suleiman, — 
the Throne of Solomon, which I take to mean the land of the high place. 
Upon subsequent reference I find that the Hebrew has no connexion either 
with “ thrones ” or with “ Kadesh.” The latter is spelt with Icaph, but 
“ Khodshi”has cheth as its initial. The words appear to mean a “ Reclaimed 
Low] and,” and they are applicable to either of the plains on the borders of 
the Sea of Galilee. There is some reason to believe that neither of those 
plains existed at the destruction of Sodom, and their comparatively recent 
reclamation may have caused the descriptive name of Tahtim Kodshi to be 
attached to them in the time of Joab. 
Then, again, there is an allusion made to the name “ Cain,” There 
is a Cain, a city of Judah, which I think is now pretty fairly iden- 
tified. Upon reference, it appears that the Hebrew initial of Cain is 
I'oph and not caf. The city in Judah is spelt the same as the nam e of the 
fratricide. So also is that of the Kenite tribes. In that case the points 
vary in most passages, but not in all. The city of Hinah only differs in 
Hebrew in the final h, and the points. 
With regard to the word “ Totem,” I take it to be something which we 
might compare to-day with patron-saints. It had very much the same 
sort of meaning and use, — namely, the adoption of an animal as the 
emblem of the particular god to Avhich the family should look. 
At the end of the paper an allusion is made to Avhat has been written 
by Professor Robertson Smith, to Avhom we should offer our best thanks 
