[195] In the same way we find "Mentuhotep," or "Sesortasen I." named, "when all other ancestors are omitted, as the sole connecting link between Amosis (xviii. dynasty) and Menes." _Vide_ Palmer's "Egyptian Chronicles," i. 385. So, too, are Fohi (whom I believe to be Adam) and Shin-nong (Noah) connected and linked together in Chinese chronology. "I. Fohi the great Brilliant (Tai-hao), cultivation of _astronomy_ and religion as well as _writing_. He reigned 110 years. Then came fifteen reigns. II. Shin-nong (divine _husbandman_). Institution of _agriculture_ [compare _ante_, ch. x.] The knowledge of simples applied as the art of medicine."--Bunsen's "Egypt," iii. 383, chap. on Chinese Chronology. _Vide ante_, 61; chap. on Tradition, p. 129; Prometheus. I do not of course attempt, within this narrow compass, to grasp Mr Kenrick's entire view. I am merely dealing with the special argument; but it is curious to note how the line of reasoning adopted by Mr Kenrick, whilst it sustains the Greek traditions, as traditions (though not Greek), unconsciously neutralises the arguments which would dispose of the testimonies derived from them, by saying that they were not traditions of a general, but of a local and a partial deluge. These latter arguments appear to have had weight with one against whom I hardly venture to run counter, Frederick Schlegel ("Phil. of Hist." p. 79)--"The irruption of the Black Sea into the Thracian Bosphorus is regarded by very competent judges in such matters as an event perfectly historical, or at least, from its proximity to the historical times, as not comparatively of so primitive a date." Compare with passage from Mr Kenrick.[196] Schlegel adds:--"All these great physical changes are not necessarily and exclusively to be ascribed to the last general Deluge. The presumed irruption of the Mediterranean into the ocean, as well as many other mere partial revolutions in the earth and sea, may have occurred much later, and quite apart from this great event" (p. 79). But it may also have occurred much _earlier_, as is clear from the following passage from Schlegel, to which I wish to direct the attention of geologists, and in which Schlegel speaks according to the original insight of his own mind, and not in deference to the opinions of others:--