[291] Rom. i. 20-24.
[292] Gen. vi. 8.
[293] The-bith.
[294] Gen. ix. 1.
[295] “This king is stated to have reclaimed his subjects from a state of the most savage barbarity. He was, we are told by our author, the son of Yussan-Ajum, while others call him the grandson of Noah; all agree in acknowledging him as the founder of a dynasty, which are known in history as that of the Paishdadian” (Sir John Malcolm).
[296] The Irish name for a boat is baudh, which is only a formative of pith.
[297] Gen. v. 29.
[298] If the reader will now turn to p. 223, will he not think it probable that the symbol contained on the broken-off portion of the stone, there represented, must have been the phallus?
[299] Who can forget the fable in Ovid, de jactibus lapidibus?
[300] “But as his descendants gave him his right as to the title of Deva, and decreed divine honours to be paid to him, we shall henceforth call him Deva-cala-Yavana; or, according to the vulgar mode of pronouncing this compound word, Deo-cal-Yun, which sounds exactly like Deucalion in Greek” (Wilford).