[154] Rawlinson, in Records of the Past, O.S. i. 128. Oppert, ib. ix. 68. Cf. the later attempts of Spiegel, Die Altpersischen Keilinschriften (1881), p. 41, and Weissbach, op. cit. p. 29.
[155] Perrot, p. 33, translator’s note.
[156] Evetts (Basil), New Lights on the Bible, p. 42.
[157] Kinneir, Geographical Memoir, p. 181. Ib. ‘Asia Minor’ (1818), p. 462.
[158] Porter, Travels, ii, 154-8.
[159] Memoirs of Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bart., G.C.B., by George Rawlinson (Longmans, 1898). In the title-page he is described as K.C.B. According to Dod the higher rank was conferred in 1889: K.C.B. in 1856.
[160] J. R. A. S. x. 15. Layard, however, says he sometimes at least availed himself of a powerful telescope. Nineveh and Babylon (1882), p. xliii.
[161] Memoir, p. 63.
[162] J. R. A. S. x. 7, note.
[163] Athenæum, Nov. 8, 1884.