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AVING now got abreast of the practical chronology of Christendom, it will be convenient to direct my readers to the eras which have been assigned to the creation of the world, The figures, as will be seen, exhibit nothing but a series of disenchanting disparities. For instance we have


 * 1) 7388 B.C. according to the modern Grecians.
 * 2) 7382   Josephus.
 * 3) 5829   Scaliger.
 * 4) 5508   the ancient Greeks,
 * 5) 5499   Sextus Africanus.
 * 6) 5411   Hates.
 * 7) 4968   L’art de vérifier les dates.
 * 8) 4905   Nennius’ Historia.
 * 9) 4004   the Bible margins from Usher.
 * 10) 3970   Sir John Skene.
 * 11) 3760     the present day Jews.

. That the various eras could be more successfully investigated were there one standard for the computations is quite plain. Certainly if the age of the earth, as regards the origin of species, could be agreed on, it would act as a chronological trunk whence could branch the eras and