Dec. 22nd.
SIR,--I have examined Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon with reference to O.
S.--your correspondent's query, (see "Current Notes" for November, p.
85), concerning Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and cannot discover the names
to have any such primary meaning as was there ascribed to them; though
perhaps by a little straining, and a few far-fetched ideas, such an
interpretation might be given--but it is so wholly unworthy of any one
to torture his imagination to suppose that the original signification
of words should have been framed to suit a climate, that nothing more
need be said.
I remain, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
C. M. J.
Mr. Willis.