Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . he Messiah became more clearly Cyrus overthrew the Babylonian empire (538 ), he al-lowed the Jews to return to their own country. Only the tribesof Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, .availed themselves of this permis-sion, the other ten tribes disappear from history after the Captiv-ity. It is probable that they had become so mingled with theBabylonians, a people of kindred origin, that tliey had ceased toremember the country of their race. Vain attempts have, in recenttimes, been made to discover the te
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . he Messiah became more clearly Cyrus overthrew the Babylonian empire (538 ), he al-lowed the Jews to return to their own country. Only the tribesof Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, .availed themselves of this permis-sion, the other ten tribes disappear from history after the Captiv-ity. It is probable that they had become so mingled with theBabylonians, a people of kindred origin, that tliey had ceased toremember the country of their race. Vain attempts have, in recenttimes, been made to discover the ten lost tribes. Some learnedmen have sought for them in China and India, while others havedeclared the Afghans to be then- descendants, and even the NorthAmerican Indians. A more, probable conjecture, perliaps, is, thatthey were the ancestors of the Nestorians in the mountains ofKurdistan. BABYROUSSA {Siis Bahyroima), a species of Hog (q. v.) in-habiting the forests of Java and the Molucca Islands, remarkablefor the extraordinary tusks of the upper jaw, which rise like horns. /Slfv Babyroussa {Babirussa alfmtts). through the bone and integuments, are long, somewhat slender,and curved backwards; their use being probably similar to thatof horns. The animal is sometimes called the Horned Hog. Itslimbs are much more slender than those of the common hog. BACCHIGLIONJfc, a river of Noi-thern Italy, having its sourcein the Alps, and its outlet in the Adriatic. It passes through thetown of Vicenza, where it is crossed by a tine bridge of ninearches; flows through the plain of Padua, and enters the Adriaticabout 3 miles south of Chioggia. Its whole course is about 90miles, and it is navigable by large boats from Vicenza tothe sea. BACCHUS, the god of wine (called in Greek Bakchos, Dio-nysos, also, especially in the Mysteries, lakchos), was tlie son ofZeus and Semele, the daughter of Cadmus. IJefore his birth,Semele, fell a victim to the insidious counsels of the jealous Here,who induced
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