"I am delighted to have been able to make early acquaintance with a book so full of facts which really illuminate the dark places of primitive times. That the explanation of the Hebrew Scriptures profits much by it is clear."--_Professor Dr._ T. K. CHEYNE, _Oxford_. * * * * * Transcriber's notes Obvious typographical errors have been corrected but otherwise variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained. Italics are represented thus _i_, breve thus [)e] and macron is thus [=a]. Repeated chapter headings on consecutive pages have been removed. Footnote 63. The word 'sum' in the original has been corrected to 'sun', which is more reasonable in the context. End of Project Gutenberg's The Covenant of Salt, by Henry Clay Trumbull