[340] They suggest the magnetic and titaniferous iron sands of Wicklow, of New Zealand, of Australia, and of a variety of sites mentioned in To the Gold Coast for Gold, ii. 111.
[341] The Naphtuhim of Scripture.
[342] Percy’s Metallurgy, p. 874, first edit.
[343] Proc. Soc. Antiq. second series, vol. v., June 1873. Mr. Hartland added rubbings of various Pharaohnic stones, hoping to ‘show how little the mind of civilised man has developed during 3,000 years.’ A pleasant lesson to humanity! But after all thirty centuries are a mere section of the civilisation which began in Egypt.
[344] The Corsican is simply a blacksmith’s forge. The Catalan has a heavy hammer and blowing-machine; if the trompe be used, a fall of water is required for draught. The Stückofen is a Catalan extended upwards in the form of a quadrangular or circular shaft, 10–16 feet high.
[345] It is to be noted that flint implements were found all about these works: Mr. Hartland brought home from them silex arrow-heads. The late lamented Professor Palmer observed them in other parts of the Pharan peninsula, and I made a small collection in Midian. In the Journ. of the Anthrop. Soc. 1879, I showed, following Mr. Ouvry, Sir John Lubbock, and others, that Cairo is surrounded by ancient flint-ateliers. M. Lartet explored them in Southern Palestine; I picked them up near Bethlehem (Unexplored Syria, ii. 289). The Abbé Richard and others traced them at Elbireh (in the Tiberiad); between Tabor and the Lake; and, lastly, at Galgal, where Joshua circumcised. Lastly, my late friend Charles F. Tyrwhitt-Drake, when travelling with me, came upon an atelier east of Damascus. I have noticed General Pitt-Rivers’ great Egyptian discovery in chap. ii.
[346] Hek or hak (chief) has a suspicious resemblance to Shaykh and sos to sús, the mare, characteristically ridden by the Bedawin. In old Egyptian sos is a buffalo.
[347] Movers (Phönicier, ii. 3), quoted by Dr. Evans (Bronze, &c. 5), finds bronze (copper?) 44 and iron 13 times in the Pentateuch, and he theorises upon the later introduction of the latter. But when was the Pentateuch written in its present form?
[348] Rougemont, L’Age du Bronze, pp. 188 et seq.
[349] Volney, Travels, ii. 438.