TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] From “Records of the Past.” New Series, vol. ii.

[2] See Bishop Butler’s “Sermon on the Character of Balaam.”

[3] Rev. H. G. Tomkins argues that he was a Semite, though in close contact with the Hittites.—“Journal of the Anthropological Institute,” November 1889.

[4] Major Conder, in the “Journal of the Anthropological Institute,” August 1889.

[5] See the authorities given in “Rawlinson’s Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament.”

[6] Dyer’s “Pompeii.”

[7] Exod. xxix. 22; Levit. vii. 32, viii. 25, ix. 21; Num. xviii. 18.

[8] See Sayce’s “Fresh Light from the Monuments,” p. 139.