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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
No one who takes interest in the discoveries daily made in Assyria and Babylonia can fail to have read the interesting and important communications from Colonel Rawlinson, which appeared in the Athenæum of the 18th March and 15th April last, conveying to the public a mass of new and most valuable material towards framing a continuous chronology of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires, even from their earliest origin: establishing the fact that Semiramis, queen of Babylon, was the wife of Pul, king of Assyria; and mentioning the discovery of Belsharezar son of Nabonidus, whom he supposes to be the Belshazzar of Scripture, and the last of the kings of Babylon.
page 280 note 1 Volney's Recherches Nouvelles. Part iii, p. 79.
page 281 note 1 See my recent publication, “Sacred and Profane Chronology,” on the subject of the Sabbatical year and Jubilee.
page 282 note 1 Dr. Hincks takes the same view as Colonel Rawlinson. See Trans. Royal Irish Academy; vol. xxii, p. 369; and Journal of Sacred Literature, No. xii.
page 283 note 1 Isaiah, xxxvii;, 6.
page 284 note 1 II. Chronicles, xxxii. 31.
page 284 note 2 See also Montucla's Histoire des Mathématiques, p. 737; Sur le phénomène de la rétrogradation de l'ombre dans un cadrau solaire.
page 285 note 1 The idea that the appearance on Hezekiah's dial may hare been the effect of an eclipse was, I beliere, first suggested by Thenius, in his Chronological Survey of the History of the Israelites, though I have not seen the work. See Gumpach's Zeitrecknung der Babylonier und Assyrier, p. 134, note.
page 286 note 1 Lecture on the eclipse of Thales.
page 294 note 1 Halde's, Du “China,” fol., 1741, vol. ii., p. 131Google Scholar.