TOTS Kopeupalcep 6pen Ti)S 'Apuevias Stanevelv, Kai river &Ira roil 71-Xolou Kopifecv cio-OaXrov, xpetoOac BE airrip rpds robs bray-port acrneis. Syncel. See the whole narrative in Bun sen's Egypt's Place, i. pp. 713-715, Cory's Ancient Fragments, 2d ed. pp. 26-29). The remarkable agreement of most of these particulars with the account in the Bible makes the concluding state ment worthy of attention. Armenia is the same as Ararat, but the locality of the resting-place is more nearly defined by the mention of a mountain of the Cordimans (for the reading in Syncellus is obviously corrupt), a people whom we recognize in the mo dern Kurds, the inhabitants of the ancient Cordyene or Gordyene. If Berosus mention the remaining in his time of part of the Ark on only hearsay evidence, as Eusebius puts it, we can scarcely insist on the inaccessibility of the summit of Ararat to the an cients, nor is it necessary that the former should speak of a summit unless he were describing a true remnant of the Ark. The same tradition is still extant, as Sir Henry Rawlinson stated in some important observations made at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on Nov. 8, 18p3, when an account of the ascent of Mount Demawend by Mr. R. S. Thomson and Lord Schoenberg Kerr had been read. Professor Kinkel has kindly placed at our disposal his notes made at the time, from which we take the following extract — 'The Ararat, now called so, in Armenia, is not the Biblical Ararat. The Biblical Ararat is a moun tain north of Mosul [EbM6sil], and lies in the country of Ararat, to which the sons of Sen nacherib fled. It is now called Jebel Joodee, and
pilgrims still go to the place, returning with bits of wood, taken, as they say, from the Ark. I have seen such bits myself in the hands of returned pilgrims. This is all I can say ; of course, I do not mean to say that these are real fragments of the ark. I believe the Ararat of Armenia bears this name only for about five hundred years.' Here we have a consistent tradition, which has been un changed for more than twenty-one centuries, although, curiously enough, both Berosus (if we follow the better text) and Sir Henry Rawlinson give it only upon hearsay evidence.
The remarkable tradition of Apamea in Phrygia can scarcely be regarded as one of those that remove the place of the resting of the Ark, for those who hold a partial Deluge can hardly limit it to the plains of the Euphrates and Tigris. We have it on numismatic evidence alone. Certain of the coins of that place, struck in the second century of the Christian era, bear representations of the Ark, accompanied by the name of Noah. The reverses of two specimens in the French Collection are here engraved, from casts in the British Museum.
The coins may be described as follows : t. Cop per coin of Severus. Obverse : ATT. K. A. CEHT. CEOTHPOS II..TL Bust of Severus, laureate and wearing paludamentum and cuirass, to the right. Reverse: EH! AITINOHETOT APTEMA. P. AIIA