The history of salt

by Evan Marlett Boddy

[17] According to the researches of the late Mr. George Smith, Babylonian literature is of a much more ancient date than the histories of the Bible; which fact would tend to indicate that the intellectual development of that Eastern monarchy may have been coëval with that of the African.

[18] Dr. Draper’s “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.”

[19] Leviticus ii. 13.

[20] 2 Kings ii. 21.

[21] Judges ix. 45.

[22] 2 Chronicles xiii. 5.

[23] Numbers xviii. 19.

[24] Ezekiel xvi. 4.

[25] Job v. 6.

[26] St. Mark ix. 50.