[2] Noah’s Ark, B.C. 2348.
[3] Gen. vi. 15.
[4] Gen. vii. 16, 17. Cory, “Ancient Fragm.,” for traditions of the Ark in various lands.
[5] The Scriptural narrative of a great flood, and of a great vessel to float upon it, has just met with a remarkable confirmation. At a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Sir Henry Rawlinson in the chair, on December 3, 1872, Mr. George Smith, of the British Museum, read a paper, giving an account of his discovery, on cuneiform tablets (part of the so-called library of Ashur-ban-i-pal, king of Nineveh), of an unquestionable account of the Deluge. The name of the king under whom this event occurred cannot as yet be deciphered, nor can anything like a certain date be assigned to it; but Sir Henry Rawlinson accepted fully the truth of Mr. Smith’s decipherings. Of the inscription describing the Flood, there are fragments of three copies, containing duplicate texts.
[6] Layard, First Series. Pls. 10, 12, 13, 15, 25, 27, 28.
[7] Hügel, “Travels in Cashmir,” p. 27, with a picture, p. 247.
[8] Pliny, vii. 57. Cf. also Lucan, Phars. iv. 131. Such vessels were called “boats sewn together,” Plin. xxiv. 65; and Virgil (Æn. vi. 448) gives the same title to Charon’s boat.
[9] Layard, “Nineveh and Babylon,” pp. 522-524.
[10] “Relaçion historica del Viage a la America Meridional,” 1748; Charnock, “Hist. Mar. Arch.” i. p. 12.
[11] Herod. i. 1.