[4] Herodotus, ii. 5.
[5] Loftus's Chaldæa and Susiana, p. 282.—R.
[6] See Strabo, xvi. 1, § 6; Pliny, H.N. vi. 28; Ptolemy, v. 20; Berosus, pp. 28, 29.—R.
[7] Ross came to the end of the alluvium and the commencement of the secondary formation in lat. 34°, long. 44° (Journal of Geographical Society, vol. ix. p. 446). Similarly, Captain Lynch found the bed of the Tigris change from pebbles to mere alluvium near Khan Iholigch, a little above its confluence with the Aahun (Ib. p. 472). For the point where the Euphrates enters on the alluvium, see Fraser's Assyria and Mesopotamia, p. 27.—R.
[8] Rawlinson. The Five Great Monarchies, &c., vol. i., pp. 1-4. As to the name and boundaries of Chaldæa, see also Guignaut, La Chaldée et les Chaldéens, in the Encyclopédie Moderne, vol. viii.
[9] Herodotus, i. 106, 192; iii. 92.
[10] Pliny, Nat. Hist. vi. 26.
[11] Strabo, xvi. i. § 1.
[12] Genesis xi. 28 and 31; Isaiah xlvii. 1; xiii. 19, &c.; Diodorus ii. 17; Pliny, Nat. Hist. vi. 26; the Greek translators of the Bible rendered the Hebrew term Khasdim by Χαλδαιοι; both forms seem to be derived from the same primitive word.
[13] Strabo, xvi. i. 1, 2, 3.