[96] Rev. T. K. Cheyne, Article “Deluge,” Encyclopædia Britannica, 1877. François Lenormant, “The Deluge, its Traditions in Ancient Histories,” Contemporary Review, Nov., 1879.
[97] Bunsen estimates that 20,000 years were requisite for the formation of the Chinese language. This, however, is not conceded by other philologists.
[98] Rawlinson quotes the African type on the Egyptian sculptures as being identical with that of the negro of the present day.
[99] “While the tradition of the Deluge holds so considerable a place in the legendary memories of all branches of the Aryan race, the monuments and original texts of Egypt, with their many cosmogenic speculations, have not afforded one, even distant, allusion to this cataclysm. When the Greeks told the Egyptian priests of the Deluge of Deucalion, their reply was that they had been preserved from it as well as from the conflagration produced by Phaeton; they even added that the Hellenes were childish in attaching so much importance to that event, as there had been several local catastrophes resembling it.”—Lenormant, Contemporary Review, November 1879.
[100] François Lenormant, “The Deluge; its Traditions in Ancient Histories,” Contemporary Review, vol. xxxvi. p. 465.
[101] Here several verses are wanting.
[102] “The water of the twilight at break of day,” one of the personifications of rain.
[103] The god of thunder.
[104] The god of war and death.
[105] The Chaldæo-Assyrian Hercules.