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APPENDIX I.
Note A. Vol. I. p. 149.
It was my intention to have added in this note some observations
on the early traditional history of Lydia; and following the plan of
an interesting work by the Abbe Guerin du Rocher, on the fabulous
history of Egypt, to show how that of Lydia might also be divested
of many of the inconsistent fables with which it has been clothed
by Herodotus, and other ancient historians. I wished to have shown
that Manes, the first king of Lydia, was no other than Noah,—that
Lydus, the grandson of Manes, was Lud the grandson of Noah,—and
particularly with regard to the much-involved question of the Tyr-
rhenian emigration of the Lydians, that the whole account is a con-
fused and perverted narrative, founded on the real emigration of
another Tyrrhenus, viz. Abraham the son of Terah, with the account
of which, in the 12th and 13th chapters of Genesis, the Lydian emi-
gration coincides in every important respect. I have found, however,
that the developement of this view would extend to a greater length
than I had anticipated; and I am therefore compelled to defer the
consideration of it to a future opportunity.
Note B. Vol. I. p. 160.
It is such a singular circumstance that a substance, the result of
a peculiar animal instinct in many and distant regions of the world,
and which possesses at the same time so many useful and agreeable
qualities as honey, should, in this particular district, be of a highly
deleterious and poisonous character, that I have thought it might be
agreeable to the reader if I could present him with the principal
ancient and modern authorities on the subject. Xenophon, in his
account of the retreat of the Ten Thousand, says (lib. iv. c. 8.) "that
there were many hives there (in the hills, two days' march from Tre-
Note A. Vol. I. p. 149.
It was my intention to have added in this note some observations
on the early traditional history of Lydia; and following the plan of
an interesting work by the Abbe Guerin du Rocher, on the fabulous
history of Egypt, to show how that of Lydia might also be divested
of many of the inconsistent fables with which it has been clothed
by Herodotus, and other ancient historians. I wished to have shown
that Manes, the first king of Lydia, was no other than Noah,—that
Lydus, the grandson of Manes, was Lud the grandson of Noah,—and
particularly with regard to the much-involved question of the Tyr-
rhenian emigration of the Lydians, that the whole account is a con-
fused and perverted narrative, founded on the real emigration of
another Tyrrhenus, viz. Abraham the son of Terah, with the account
of which, in the 12th and 13th chapters of Genesis, the Lydian emi-
gration coincides in every important respect. I have found, however,
that the developement of this view would extend to a greater length
than I had anticipated; and I am therefore compelled to defer the
consideration of it to a future opportunity.
Note B. Vol. I. p. 160.
It is such a singular circumstance that a substance, the result of
a peculiar animal instinct in many and distant regions of the world,
and which possesses at the same time so many useful and agreeable
qualities as honey, should, in this particular district, be of a highly
deleterious and poisonous character, that I have thought it might be
agreeable to the reader if I could present him with the principal
ancient and modern authorities on the subject. Xenophon, in his
account of the retreat of the Ten Thousand, says (lib. iv. c. 8.) "that
there were many hives there (in the hills, two days' march from Tre-