[1] The major portion of this Preface was read before the British Association at Cambridge, August 17, 1904.
[2] Stanford, 1901.
[3] On this crucial point I am glad to find myself in accord with Dr. A. H. Sayce, who has independently arrived at the same conclusion. “There is no gold in Southern Arabia,” he writes, “and consequently Ophir must have been an emporium to which the gold was brought for transhipment from elsewhere” The Early History of the Hebrews, 1897, p. 463).
[4] Somewhat similar terraced slopes are to be found in the Lydenburg district of Transvaal Colony.
[5] See Lundi Ruins, in Ancient Ruins, p. 178.
[6] So also M. L. Gallois, in a review of The Gold of Ophir, contributed to the Annales de Géographie for September 15, 1902: “Ces monuments de l’Afrique du Sud ont une parenté certaine, avec les monuments himyarites de l’Arabie méridionale. Les hommes qui ont construit les forteresses de la Rhodesia venaient, portés par la mousson, de la côte méridionale d’Arabie chercher l’or du Manica et du Mashona.”
[7] Babel und Bibel, p. 44.
[8] Assyria, pp. 110, 116.
[9] Gold of Ophir, p. 6.
[10] Ruined Cities, p. 167.