son of Methuselah, and father of Noah. He lived a hundred fourscore and two years before the birth of Noah, (Gen. v. 25, 31.) and after that, he lived five hundred and ninety-five years longer: thus the whole time of his life was seven hundred seventy-seven years, being born in the year of the world 874, and dying in the year of the world 1651.

Lamellæ, in natural history, denotes very thin plates, such as the scales of fishes are composed of.