when these cosmical schemes
were employed in the Euphratean valley.

In conclusion I draw attention to the two interesting wheel-shaped maps of
the world also published in the "Notes on Ezekiel" (p. 105), and the
remarkable diagram (p. 197), showing the allotment of the land of Canaan
according to Ezekiel. On p. 204, in the Notes of Chapter 48 of Ezekiel,
there are valuable details concerning the geographical distribution of the
tribes of Israel, and the position, in the centre, of the sacred
reservation and the symmetrical arrangement of the gates of Jerusalem,
which were associated with the cardinal points and tribal representatives.

Z. N.

FOOTNOTES

1 The Swastika. Report of the U. S. National Museum, 1894. Washington,
1896. During the preparation of this paper I also consulted the
following works, from which some forms of swastika are likewise
reproduced on pl. II: Le signe de la Croix avant le Christianisme.
Gabriel de Mortillet. Paris, 1866. Zur Geschichte der Swastika.
Zmigrodski, Braunschweig, 1890. La migration des symboles. Comte
Goblet d'Alviella. Paris, 1891.

2 I would insert here that it was only when the present investigation
was almost completed, that my attention was arrested by a reference
in Professor Wilson's work, already cited, to a short article on the
Fylfot and the Futhorc tir by H. Colley March, M.D.

Having succeeded in obtaining a copy of the Transactions of the
Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society (vol. 4, pp. 1-12,
1886), in which it appeared, I had the extreme satisfaction of
finding that a specialist working in another field and approaching
the problem from another direction had come to two of the identical
conclusions that I had reached in a totally different manner. This
fact constitutes, in my opinion, the most powerful support of the
correctness of the views we hold in common after having formed,
expressed and worked them out in such a different way, as can be
verified by a comparison of our two works.

Referring the reader to his valuable and suggestive communication to
which I shall revert, I shall merely mention here that Dr. March
recognizes, as I do, that the "essential suggestion [of the swastika
and fylfot] is of axial rotation." He attributes the original of the
swastika to the nocturnal (not as I do