136. Lyell, Principles of Geology (eighth edition), p. 77.
137. Idem., p. 83. A similar change from a temperate climate to extreme cold has taken place in Greenland within five or six centuries.
138. The Daêvas, or evil spirits of the Zend books, are the same as the Dêvas, or Gods of the Sanskrit religion.
139. The Patets are formularies of confession. They are written in Pârsî, with occasional passages inserted in Zend.
140. Zoroast. Stud. 1863.
141. Vendidad, Fargard XIX. 33, 44, 55.
142. The Albordj of the Zend books is doubtless the modern range of the Elbrooz. This mighty chain comes from the Caucasus into the northern frontier of Persia. See a description of this region in "Histoire des Perses, par le Comte de Gobineau. Paris, 1869."
143. See Burnouf, Comment, sur le Yaçna, p. 528. Flotard, La Religion primitive des Indo-Européens. 1864.
144. Vendidad, Fargard X. 17.
145. See Spiegel's note to the tenth Fargard of the Vendidad.