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THE
DOCTRINE
OF
THE DELUGE.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, New-Street-Square.
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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.
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
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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