he guns of the fortress of
Strasburg; and may therefore be presumed to be unaffected by those
dreams of a "Reign of Terror" which seem to disturb the peace of some of
us in these islands (April, 1891).

[See, on the subject of this note, the essay entitled "An Episcopal
Trilogy" in the following volume.]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: In May 1849 the Tigris at Bagdad rose 22-1/2 feet--5
feet above its usual rise--and nearly swept away the town. In 1831 a
similarly exceptional flood did immense damage, destroying 7000 houses.
See Loftus, _Chaldea and Susiana,_ p. 7.]

[Footnote 2: See the instructive chapter on Hasisadra's flood in Suess,
_Das Antlitz der Erde,_ Abth. I. Only fifteen years ago a cyclone in the
Bay of Bengal gave rise to a flood which covered 3000 square miles of
the delta of the Ganges, 3 to 45 feet deep, destroying 100,000 people,
innumerable cattle, houses, and trees. It broke inland on the rising
ground of Tipperah, and may have swept a vessel from the sea that far,
though I do not know that it did.]

[Footnote 3: See Cernik's maps in _Petermanns Mittheilungen,_
Erganzungashefte 44 and 45, 1875-76.]

[Footnote 4: I have not cited the dimensions given to the ships in most
translations of the story, because there appears to be a doubt about
them. Haupt (_Keilinschriftliche Sindfluth-Bericht,_ p. 13: says that
the figures are illegible.)]

[Footnote 5: It is probable that a slow movement of elevation of the
land at one time contributed to the result--perhaps does so still.]

[Footnote 6: At a comparatively recent period, the littoral margin of
the Persian Gulf extended certainly 250 miles farther to the northwest
than the present embouchure of the Shatt-el Arab. (Loftus, _Quarterly
Journal of the Geological Society,_ 1853, p. 251.) The actual extent of
the marine deposit inland cannot be defined, as it is covered by later
fluviatile deposits.]

[Footnote 7: Tiele (_Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschicthe,_ pp. 572-3) has
some very just remarks on this aspect of the epos.]

[Footnote 8: In the second volume of the _History of the Euphrates,_
p. 637 Col. Chesney gives a very interesting account of the simple and
rapid manner in which the people about Tekrit and in the marshes of
Lemlum construct large barges, and make them water-tight with bitumen.
Doubtless the practice is extremely ancient and as Colonel Chesney
suggests, may possibly have furnished the conception of Noah's ark. But
it is one t