368, and note to Rev. H. J. Coleridge's fourth sermon on "The Latter Days") that it was not geographically universal. I merely adhere to the testimony of tradition, and from this point of view it would suffice (_vide_ Reusch) that it was universal so far as the horizon of the survivors extended. Since, however, there is nothing to be said against the possibility of subsequent partial inundations, there will, I suppose, always be found persons ready to maintain that the deluges of Ogyges and Deucalion were partial and historical; although I submit that the arguments which were formerly used to prove the priority of Ogyges to Deucalion, and the posteriority of both to the general Deluge, turned upon points of chronology which will hardly be sustained at the present day. If, however, I can succeed in showing that the deluge of Deucalion is identical with the deluge of Noah, I shall consider that I shall have also proved the point for the deluge of Ogyges, which all agree to have been much older! The following is Mr Grote's narrative collating the different traditions respecting the deluge of Deucalion:-- "Deukalion is important in Grecian mythical narration under two points of view. First, he is the person specially saved at the time of the general deluge; next, he is the father of Hellên, the great eponym of the Hellenic race; at least that was the more current story, though there were other statements which made Hellên the son of Zeus." [This was merely the incipient process of the apotheosis of their more immediate founder.] "The enormous iniquity with which the earth was contaminated, as Apollodorus says, by the then existing _brazen_ race, or, as others say, by the fifty monstrous sons of Sykorôn, provoked Zeus to send a general deluge." "The latter account is given by Dionys. Halic. i. 17; the former seems to have been given by Hellenikus, who affirmed that the _ark_ after the Deluge stopped upon Mount Othrys, and not upon Mount Parnassus (_Schol. Pind. ut supra_), the former being suitable for a settlement in Thessaly." [I have already pointed out how the general tradition is everywhere localised.] "An _unremitting_ and _terrible rain_ laid the whole of Greece under water except the highest mountain-tops, where a few stragglers found refuge. Deukalion was saved in a chest or ark, which he had been forewarned by his father Prometheus to construct. After he had floated for nine days on the water, he at length landed on the summit of Mount Parnassus. Zeus hearing, sent Hermes to him, promising to grant whatever he asked. He prayed that men and companions might be sent him in his solitude: accordingly Zeus directed both him and Pyrrha to cast stones over their heads, those cast by Pyrrha became women, those by Deukalion men. And thus the 'stony race of men' (if we may be allowed to translate an etymology which the Greek