(Loftus, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,
1853, p. 251.) The actual extent of the marine deposit inland
cannot be defined, as it is covered by later
fluviatile deposits.

(7) Tiele (Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschicthe, pp. 572-3)
has some very just remarks on this aspect of the epos.

(8) In the second volume of the History of the Euphrates,
p. 637 Col. Chesney gives a very interesting account of the
simple and rapid manner in which the people about Tekrit and in
the marshes of Lemlum construct large barges, and make them
water-tight with bitumen. Doubtless the practice is extremely
ancient and as Colonel Chesney suggests, may possibly have
furnished the conception of Noah's ark. But it is one thing to
build a barge 44ft. long by 11ft. wide and 4ft. deep in the way
described; and another to get a vessel of ten times the
dimensions, so constructed, to hold together.

(9) "Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit,"
Maximen und Reflexionen, iii.

(10) The well-known difficulties connected with this case have
recently been carefully discussed by Mr. Bell in the
Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow.

(11) An instructive parallel is exhibited by the "Great Basin"
of North America. See the remarkable memoir on Lake
Bonneville by Mr. G. K. Gilbert, of the United States
Geological Survey, just published.