Evidence that the golden image at Mount Sinai was a cone and not a calf, with three appendices. A collection of five letters which appeared in the Jewish Chronicle in May and June of 1871, three of which were written by the author, one from the erudite Jewish scholar Dr. Benisch, and one by an anonymous correspondent. The appendices are entitled: on the non-identity of Mitzraim and Egypt; on the possibility of turning the waters of the Nile away from Egypt; on the sources of the Nile.