P. lxv. _et seq._: “So that on a strict view and due examination of the antiquities of nations, and the records that have been left us, those of the Jews, exclusive of their divine authority, will evidently appear to be the most certain and authentick.... However it must be confessed that there is no certain uniformity in the Jewish computation, and that the several copies of their records, _viz._, the Hebrew, Samaritan Pentateuch, and Septuagint differ very much from one another.... This variety of computations hath left room for Chronologers to enlarge or contract the space of time betwixt the flood and the birth of Christ, by adhering to one copy rather than another; or by rejecting or retaining the whole numbers, or the particulars, just as it suited their humour of making the Sacred History agree with the Prophane; or otherwise of reducing the Prophane to the Sacred, and as the disagreement among the heathen writers is great also, and every author hath followed the historian he liked best, hence a wide difference hath arisen amongst modern Chronologers as appears by the various computations ... which we here give as collected by Strauchius, Chevreau, and others. It would be endless as well as unnecessary here to examine into the particular causes of this great difference amongst authors, every one still pretending to ground his system on the authority of the Scripture. A Table of the years of the world to the birth of Christ, according to the computations of several chronologers. Alphonsus, King of Castile, in Muller’s Tables 6,984 The same, in Strauchius 6,484 9 months Onuphrius Panvinius 6,310 Suidas 6,000 Lactantius, Philastrius 5,801 Nicephorus 5,700 Clemens Alexandrinus 5,624 The author of the Fasti Siculi 5,608 9 months Isaac Vossius, and the Greeks 5,598 Etc. etc.” „ It will be seen that the earlier of these dates leads us back to an even more remote age than that in which, if the theory here proposed is a true one, the marvellous achievement of the formation of a scientific sidereal calendar was accomplished. To attribute to the dwellers in Eden or to their immediate descendants intellectual gifts that should enable them to perfect so grand a scheme, does certainly not contradict the story of the fall, but rather may open up for us fresh lines of thought, when we read of that transgression in which the pride of intellect played so important a part. II THE CONSTELLATION ARIES [Reprinted from the _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology_, _March 1893_]