Berosus, the Chaldean, read from the inscriptions on the Assyrian monuments, the tradition that there had been ten kings before the deluge. Ten antediluvian heroes are mentioned in Genesis. The legends of the Parsees say the same thing. In India the traditions tell of nine Brahmadikas, who, with Brahma, the first of all, make ten, whom they called the Ten Fathers. The Chinese count ten emperors, who reigned before historical times began. There is a multitude of correspondences similar to these. These are selected simply as specimens. There is another tradition, well-nigh universal, and agreeing in all important particulars as told by different nations. This is that concerning the flood. In addition to traditions there are coins, medals and monumental inscriptions which perpetuate the story, as is illustrated in the specimen coin given below. TRADITIONS OF THE DELUGE. Let us keep in mind the differences between the nations holding the tradition. It was impossible for them to have conferred with one another, or to have copied from each other. The confusion of languages, their wide separation in point of space and time, prevented this. The oldest historic nation, Egypt, having lost most of its sacred books before they were made known to other nations or even to the later generations among themselves, possess few traces of the tradition. One passage in the writings of Manetho, the historian, distinctly refers to the deluge. “The Book of the Dead” constantly refers to the sun-god, Ra, as voyaging in a boat on the celestial ocean, and Ra is said to have been so disgusted with the insolence of men that he determined to exterminate the race. [Illustration: COIN REPRESENTING THE DELUGE.] Clear and complete is the account which Berosus has preserved. He was a learned Chaldean priest, living in the time of Alexander the Great, about 325 B.C. This narrative is a translation made from the inscriptions of the Assyrian monuments, and compared with traditions of his own time. THE CHALDEAN STORY.