[300] "These tablets (of unbaked clay, with inscriptions, found in the tombs of Erech, the city of Nimrod—Genesis, chap. x. 10—and deciphered by Rawlinson) were, in point of fact, the equivalent of our bank notes, and prove that a system of artificial currency prevailed in Babylon and Persia at an unprecedentedly early age; centuries before the introduction of paper and writing."
Rawlinson, in News of the Churches, February, 1858, p. 50.
[301] Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the Egyptians, Vol. III. p. 106; Cosmos, Vol. I. pp. 173, 182; Chinese Repository, Vol. IX. p. 573; Williams' Middle Kingdom, Vol. II. p. 147.
[302] Somerville's Connection of Physical Sciences, 82.
[303] Daniel, chap. xii. 8. 1 Peter, chap. i. 10. Ephesians, chap. i. 3.
[304] Psalm xl. 1, and xxxvii. 23, margin.
[305] M. Voltaire; M. Cheneviere; Theol. Essays, Vol. I. p. 456.
[306] Humboldt's Cosmos, Vol. I. p. 139; Herschel's Outlines, 380; Kendall's Uranography, 205.
[307] Somerville's Connection of the Physical Sciences, 171, 337, 315; Architecture of the Heavens, 286.
[308] Genesis, chap. xv. 5.