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We only know the name through Eusebius' extract from Alexander Polyhistor's digest of Berosus. The form, therefore, cannot be vouched for. For fuller proof, see the chapter on "The Cosmology of the Babylonians." Literally, 'Ea shall be his name, his as mine. According to Syncellus. In cuneiform texts the old Bel is at times invoked as the creator of mankind. Kosmologie, pp. 293, 294.

She gathers from all, and stores the sweet agglomerate, let us hope, to feed upon it in the winter of her life, when the hive of her busy brain shall be thatched with snow. That reference to so charming a personality should be in this place a digression is Polyhistor's unhappiness.

But at this period to his cogitations Polyhistor's landlady entered with a card, which she presented to his consideration: All astonishment, Polyhistor bade his visitor up. He entered briskly, fur-collared, hat in hand, and bowed as he stood on the threshold. He was a very short man snub-nosed; rusty-whiskered; indubitably and unimpressively a cockney in appearance.

She affects his narrative only inasmuch as he happened to meet at her house a gentleman who for a time exerted a considerable influence over his fortunes. Here Polyhistor's narrative must give place to certain editorial marginalia by Miss Lucy , who "runs" the Family Magazine: "Polyhistor, indeed!" she writes. "The conceit of some people!