digested by the fish; and indeed all this time he was so comfortable that he composed a beautiful poetic prayer, not asking for deliverance, but uttering words of thankfulness for his present safety.

However sincerely we may believe that a shark is able to swallow a man, however many stories of such happenings are told, whatever enormous measurements of sharks' or whales' throats and bodies are produced, we must agree with Dr. Cheyne when he says:

"We ask in vain for a parallel to Jonah's sojourn of three days in the fish's belly, much less for a piece of imitative poetry, composed under equally trying circumstances with Jonah's psalm" (Folk Lore and Religion, Theological Review, 1877).

3.-JONAH'S TOMB AT NINEVEH.

During the past few years, since it has been generally known that in the village of Nebbi Yunus (Prophet Jonah), a tomb,

supposed to be that of Jonah, stands upon one of the mounds which cover the ruins of ancient Nineveh, it has been believed that Jonah was certainly in Nineveh; that he survived the destruction of the city, and finally, after his death, was buried above the ruins of the city whose overthrow he foretold. As beautiful as this idea is, it will hardly bear examination. Jonah died fully a century and a half before Nineveh was destroyed in 606, and years must have passed before the drifting sands had covered the fallen city so that a village and a tomb could be built above it. As Layard has said, a Christian church or monastery dedicated to the prophet may once have stood upon the spot. The tomb is plainly of Mohammedan origin; built for Mohammedan purposes probably more than fifteen centuries after Jonah died, and an Arabic historian says that the body of Jonah is not buried there (Loftus, Chaldea and Susianna, p. 317). It is but one of the

many Jonah tombs scattered over the Mohammedan world. The Syrian coasts and hills abound with tombs dedicated to the prophet, and in which the believing Moslems suppose the body of Jonah is resting. Reference has already been made to his tomb which, in Jerome's time, was at Gath-hepher. Another is shown at Ruma, in Galilee, and now, between Beyrout and Sidon, is a Kahn Yunus, where the prophet is said to have suffered shipwreck.

Geary says: "Close to the large mosque on Nebbi Yunus, an extensive artificial mound, a little to the south of Kouyunjik, is a tomb which Mussulmans, Jews and Christians in these parts firmly believe to be that of the prophet Jonah. The tomb is in the courtyard of the mosque, and its guardians assert that the gourd which sprang up in a night, when the hot wind blew and the prophet sorely needed shelter, grows afresh every year. Only Mussulmans are privileged to say their devotions