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In the case of so important a structure, the number of altars was naturally more numerous. See Heuzey's note in De Sarzec's Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 65. See pp. 109 seq. See p. 106. Recueil des Travaux, etc., xvii. 39. See pp. 140 seq. See p. 110. Nebuchadnezzar, IR. 65, col. i. ll. 34, 35. This is to be concluded from Nebuchadnezzar, ib. l. 32.
Journal des Voyages, Découvertes et Navigations Modernes, ou Archives Géographiques du 19me Siècle. This work began in Nov. 1818, and is published monthly. Like all collections of this kind, the value of it would have been encreased, and the bulk much diminished, if the selection had been more scrupulous. Delle Navigationi e Viaggi raccolti da M.G.B. Ramusio. Venet.
Apart from his authorship of the first and part of the second volume of the Voyage de Decouvertes, Peron wrote a number of short "memoires sur divers sujets," suggested to his mind by observations made during the voyage.
The compiler of the Relation des Decouvertes, who was in close relations with La Salle and those who acted with him, does not intimate a doubt of the truth of the report which Hennepin, on his return, gave to the Provincial Commissary of his Order, and which is in substance the same which he published two years later. These words, as far as my information reaches, are in every instance correct.
Dautray set out accordingly, but was met on the lakes by the deserters, who told him that Tonty was dead, and seduced his men. Relation des Decouvertes, MS. Dautray himself seems to have remained true; at least he was in La Salle's service immediately after, and was one of his most trusted followers.
Peters ib. pp. 374, 375. See p. 536. E.g., Gen. xxxi. 19. See the specimens and descriptions in Découvertes en Chaldée, pl. 44 and p. 234. Ashurnasirbal, IR. 25, col. iii. ll. 91, 92. Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's Prunkinschrift, ll. 141-143. VR. 60, col. ii. ll. 11-16. See pp. 373-383. See above, p. 658.
Peron died of a throat disease on December 14, 1810, just seventeen days after the liberated Flinders reached England. He was buried at Cerilly, where a monument, designed by Lesueur, marks his grave. At the time of his death he had not quite finished writing the second volume of the Voyage de Decouvertes.
"L'invention nest-elle pas la poesie de la science? . . . Toutes les grandes decouvertes portent avec elles la trace ineffacable d'une pensee poetique. Il faut etre poete pour creer.
Peters' Nippur, ii. 77, 133. So, e.g., Peters' Nippur, ii. 237, 238, 378, 379. De Sarzec, Découvertes en Chaldée, pls. 1 bis and 28. The opinion has been advanced that the personage who holds the cone-shaped object is the fire-god turning the fire drill, but this is highly improbable. Découvertes en Chaldée, p. 239. Peters' Nippur ii. 376, and Hilprecht, Cuneiform Texts, ix. pl. 12.
This remarkable paper will be found in the Decouvertes et Etablissements des Francais dans l'Amerique Septentrionale; Memoires et Documents Originaux, edited by M. Margry. Thus far, we have seen Frontenac on his worst side. We shall see him again under an aspect very different.
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