Note 1087 — Chapter XLII · THE FISH OF MOSES—JONAH—SOLOMON’S RING

The Compleat Angler, ch. I. “Others say that he left it (the Art of Angling) engraven on those pillars which he erected to preserve the knowledge of Mathematicks, Musick, and the rest of those precious Arts, which by God’s appointment or allowance, and his noble industry were thereby preserved from perishing in Noah’s Floud.” According to Manetho, Syncell Chron., 40, these tables engraved with sacred characters were translated into the Greek tongue in hieroglyphic characters, and committed to writing and deposited in the temples of Egypt. See the Epistle of Manetho, the Sebennyte, to Ptolemæus Philadelphus, and I. P. Cory, Ancient Fragments of Phœnician, Egyptian and other writings (London, 1832), pp. 168-9, and Eusebius, Chron. 6. Cf. Georgius Syncellus, Chronographia (Bonnæ, 1829), i. pp. 72-3.