TALBOT4231

73, Lombard Street,
London
3^d Mar. 1875

Dear Sir

Enclosed I send a receipt for y^r Subscriptions for 1875 –

Thank you much for letting me know of the second Edition of Vol 1 of the Records of the Past ¹ and your altered translation ² of the campaign of Sennacherib against Jerusalem –

I understand you now to say that the siege of Lacish took place in Senacheribs 3^d Campaign – M^r Smith ³ has some new matters concerning Sennacheribs Annals. But I have not seen what he has discovered. This last published idea was, that there was a second siege campaign about the year B.C. 689 – or 690 –

Enclosed ⁴ I send you, [illegible deletion] in a condensed form, the result of my investigation of the Hebrew chronology – The third campaign of Sennacherib falls in B.C. 701 according to this view – This siege of Jerusalem in his 14^th y^r in the y^r B.C. 689 – I think that Berosus and Moses may be reconciled to a single year for the period before the Mesopotamian flood, as well as between this flood and the invasion of Babylon by the Medes, on the principle of taking a day to signify a Sun – i.e. in rotation – and a year also to signify a Sun – i.e. in orbit. Then 420,000 years or Suns, is really not more than 1200 cycles of 360 Suns.

Believe me to be yours very truly
J W Bosanquet