Excerpt from The Calendar Plant of China, the Cosmic Tree, and the Date Palm of Babylonia It has been looked upon as a late alteration of a dialectic variant of kishlcanu. An objection to this view would be that the latter word was not a name for the palm-tree; but it is not impossible that the word may have been occasionally applied to that tree in after times because of its great importance for the population of the country. The explanation being unsatisfactory, it has been suggested that, the regular name for date-palm being now known as gishimmaru, the word musuhkan was simply a name for the palm-tree in generalw'. Let us remark in favour of this view that. The initial syllabic sign of Musukkan is no other than the symbol Me which we have come to consider as the original one for the date-palm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.