JOURNAL

OF THE

AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY.

THIRTEENTH VOLUME.

NEW HAVEN:

FOR THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY,
PRINTED BY Tuttle, MoREHOUSE AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS TO YALE UNIV.

MDCCCLXXXIX,

OF

THIRTEENTH VOLUME.

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ART. I.-KOREA IN ITS RELATIONS WITH CHINA.

By WILLIAM W. ROCK-

HILL, Secretary of Legation of the United States at Peking.

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ART. II. THE EXTREMITY OF THE ROMANS; AND PRAISE BEFORE THE HOLY

MYSTERIES: SYRIAC TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS. By Professor ISAAC

H. HALL, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

ART. III-THE SOCIAL AND MILITARY POSITION OF THE RULING CASTE IN

ANCIENT INDIA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SANSKRIT EPIC. By EDWARD

W. HOPKINS, Professor in Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS: On certain fragments of Syriac Manuscripts, I. H.

Hall. Note on Eli Smith's Arabic version of the Bible, I. H. Hall.—

Naville's identification of the city Pithom, L. Dickerman.-Naville's

identification of Pithom, W. C. Winslow.-The Holy Houses, from the

Hebrew Scriptures etc., T. O. Paine.-The "thesis" of Mr. Whitehouse,

affirming Cairo to be the Biblical Zoan and Tanis Magna, J. A. Paine.-

The Canal of Joseph etc. in Genesis xlix., F. C. Whitehouse. Supersti-

tious customs connected with sneezing, H. C. Warren.-Some manuscripts

of Ptolemy's star-catalogues, I. H. Hall.—Greek stamps on the handles

of Rhodian amphore now in New York, I. H. Hall --Greek inscription

from Tartosa in Syria, I. H. Hall -Some recent Assyriological publi-

cations, D. G. Lyon.-The Garo language, J. Avery.-Burnell on the

date of Manu, E. W. Hopkins.-Remarks on the origin of the Laws of

Manu, W. D. Whitney.-Numerical results from indexes of Sanskrit text-

and conjugation-stems, W. D. Whitney.-Multiform presents and trans-

fers of conjugation in Sanskrit, C. R Lanman.-Verbs of the Sanskrit

tan-class, A. H. Edgren.-Sanskrit manuscript of a treatise on logic, C.

R. Lanman.-Vedic derivatives of the root praç, M. Bloomfield.

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