Talmud, Tractat. Sanhedrin, fol. 108, col. 1. So also the Book Yaschar, p. 1097. Footnote 183: Jalkut, Genesis, fol. 14a. Footnote 184: Jalkut Shimoni, Job. fol. 121, col. 2. Footnote 185: Eisenmenger, i. p. 385. The Targum of Palestine says the water was hot (i. p. 179). Footnote 186: Tractat. Sevachim, fol. 113, col. 2. Footnote 187: Or, a unicorn; the Hebrew word is Reém. Footnote 188: Midrash, fol. 14. Footnote 189: Eutych., Patriarcha Alex., ed. Selden, i. p. 36. Footnote 190: Tabari, p. 108. Footnote 191: Abulfeda, p. 17. Footnote 192: Yaschar, p. 1100. Footnote 193: Colin de Plancy, p. 110. Footnote 194: Weil, p. 45. Footnote 195: Ararat. Footnote 196: Tabari, c. xli. Footnote 197: Weil, p. 45. Footnote 198: Midrash, fol. 15. Footnote 199: Tabari, p. 113. Footnote 200: Fabricius, i. pp. 74, 243. Footnote 201: Ed. Dillmann, c. 67. Footnote 202: Ed. Etheridge, i. p. 182. Footnote 203: Gen. v. 20. Footnote 204: In the Midrash Rabba, this want of connection between the name and the signification is remarked upon, and Solomon Jarki in his commentary says that, for the meaning assigned, the name ought to have been, not Noah, but Menahem. XV. HEATHEN LEGENDS OF THE DELUGE. Ararat has borne this name for three thousand years. We read in the Book of Genesis that “_the ark rested, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat_.” In passages of the Old Testament, as in Isaiah xxxvii. 38 and 2 Kings xix. 37, mention is made of a land, in Jeremiah li. 27 of a kingdom, of Ararat; and we are likewise informed by Moses of Chorene, the first authority among Armenian writers, that an entire country bore this name after an ancient Armenian king, Arai the Fair, who lived about 1750 years before Christ. He fell in a bloody battle with the Babylonians on a plain in Armenia, called after him Arai-Arat, the Fall of Arai. Before this event the country bore the name of Amasia, from its sovereign, Amassis, the sixth in descent from Japheth, who gave the name of Massis to the mountain. This is still the only name by which it is known to the Armenians; for, though it is called Ararat in the Armenian edition of the Old Testament, yet the people call it Massis, and know no other name for it. The Mussulmans call it Agridagh, the strong mountain. The name by which it is known to the Persians is Kuhi-Nuh, the mountain of Noah, or Saad-dagh, the Blessed Mountain.[205]