[460] The juxtaposition on the black obelisk of Shalmaneser II. of the rhinoceros, the small-eared or Indian elephant, and the Bactrian camel seems to point to this route. The monkeys in the same reliefs appear to belong to an Indian species (Houghton, Mammalia of the Assyrian Sculptures, pp. 319, 320).
[461] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. figs. 257, 330 and 331.
[462] Art in Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. pp. 176–179.
[463] Soury, Théories naturalistes du Monde et de la Vie dans l’Antiquité, cap. i. and ii.
[464] Ibid. cap. iii.
[465] Fr. Lenormant, Manuel d’Histoire ancienne, vol. ii. page 176.
[466] Soury, Théories naturalistes, p. 65.
[467] A. de Candolle, Origine des Plantes cultivées, pp. 285, et seq.
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