[44] Mariette’s date is B.C. 5004, Lepsius’s 3892, Wilkinson’s only 2700. Wilkinson’s chronology, however, founded upon the theory of contemporaneous dynasties in the lists of Manetho, has now been generally rejected.
[45] Shûmîr was a portion of the country inhabited by the Accadians.
[46] See Chapter XIII.
[47] Gen. xi. 2.
[48] Gen. xiv.
[49] Kung-foo-tse was his real name.
[50] ‘Fool! why journeyest thou wearisomely in thy antiquarian fervour to gaze on the stone pyramids of Geeza, or the clay stones of Sacchara? These stand there, as I can tell thee, idle and inert, looking over the desert, foolishly enough, for the last three thousand years; but canst thou not open thy Hebrew Bible, or even Luther’s version thereof?’ Sartor Resartus.
[51] For example, the Hindee rupee, the Latin pecunia, and our fee.
[52] As the Sanskrit gôpa, ‘a prince,’ the Slavonic hospodar (from gôspada) contains the word gô, our ‘cow,’ and means the protector of the cattle; from the same root, Sanskrit gavya, ‘pasturage,’ Saxon gê, ‘county,’ Greek gaia, or gê, ‘earth.’
[53] See above, page 94.