A specimen of early Babylonian folklore may fitly be added here. It is a bilingual fragment which treats of a foundling who was picked up in the streets and finally became a great scholar. Unfortunately both the beginning and the end of the story are wanting. 1. He who father and mother had not, 2. who his father (and) his mother knew not, 3. in the gutter (was) his going, in the street (his) entering. 4. From the mouth of the dogs one took him, 5. from the mouth of the ravens one put him away. 6. In the presence of the soothsayer the .... of his mouth one took. 7. The sole of his feet with the seal the soothsayer has marked. 8. To a nurse he gave him. 9. To his nurse for three years, corn, a cradle (?) 10. (and) clothing he guaranteed. 11. Then and ever he hid from him how he was taken (from the streets). 12. His rearer he rooted out (?). 13. The ..... of the milk of mankind he gave him, and 14. as his own son he made him. 15. As his own son he inscribed him. 16. A knowledge of writing he made him possess. 17. For his education (he cared). One of the most obscure incidents in the Book of Genesis is undoubtedly the building of the Tower of Babel. So far as we can judge from the fragments of his copyists, there was no reference to it in the work of Berosus, and early writers had to quote from writers of more than doubtful authority in order to confirm it. [Illustration: MEN ENGAGED IN BUILDING COLUMNS; FROM BABYLONIAN CYLINDER.] There is also no representation on any of the Babylonian gems which can with any certainty be described as belonging to this story. Mr. Smith, however, picked out three from a series of these carvings which he thought might be distorted representations of the event. In these and some others of the same character, figures have their hands on tall piles, as if erecting them; and there is a god always represented near in much the same attitude. There is no proper proportion between the supposed structure and the men, and no stress can consequently be laid on the representations. The Babylonian origin of the story is, however, self-evident. According to Genesis, mankind after the flood travelled from the east, that is from Kharsak-kurra, “the mountain of the East,” now Elwend, where the Accadians believed the ark to have rested, to the plain of Shinar or Sumir. Both Alexander Polyhistor and Abydenus state that the building of the Tower of Babel was known to Babylonian history, Babel, in fact, being the native form of the name which the Greeks changed into Babylon. The legend of Etana given in the last chapter seems to imply that the Tower was supposed to have been built under the superintendence of this mythical hero. However that may be, a fragment of the native story of its construction was discovered by Mr. Smith, and though shockingly mutilated, is sufficient to show what the Babylonians themselves believed on the matter.