THE

DOCTRINE

OF

THE DELUGE.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,
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THE DOUBTS WHICH HAVE RECENTLY BEEN CAST UPON IT BY

GEOLOGICAL SPECULATIONS.

BY

THE REV. L VERNON HARCOURT.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

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LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

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1838.

SAMAN is Hercules.- His Labours explained, and the Mysteries

in Virgil, and Homer, and Aristophanes. — The Pheneatæ, the

Boeotians, the Thracians, the Trojans, the Salaminians, the

Arabians, all Arkites.- Contests for divine Honours between

Mercury the God of the Cairn, Pan the God of the Mountain,

and Apollo. - Why the latter was called Pan and Eggborn.-

Egyptian Shrines

CHAP. XV.

Meaning of an Egg between the Horns of a Bull. Isis being

Ceres, the Correspondence between the Legends relating to

her and Bacchus is shown.- Account of the Dionysia: hence,

Apollo called Bacchus

CHAP. XVI.

Why Apollo is called Grynian Titan.-Geryon: his Ship-Temple.

Others at Tiryns. Geraste. Phœacia. — Treasury of

Atreus. - New Grange. — Battle between Hercules and Alcy-

oneus. Mithras and his Caves. Stories of Prometheus

and Minos. Legends of the Titans explained. — How the

Sun and Moon were so called. — Fire and Water equally Em-

blems of Purification and of Destruction

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CHAP. XVII.

The Fortunate

Sacred Islands. Ancient Notices of Britain.

Isles, not the Azores, nor the Canaries, nor Oases, nor Bergazi,

nor in Lake Tritonis, nor Plato's Atlantis.- Legends concern-

ing the Ogygian Island and the Hesperides explained. -Hesiod's

Tartarus the British Isles. Saturn's sacred Cell. Baris in

Britain. Pindar's hyperborean Sacrifice. Visit of Perseus

to Atlas

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