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BVt there are many arguments to perswade me, that the Arke of Noah did not rest it selfe in any part of Armenia, and that the mountaines Ararat was not Baris, nor any one of the Gordiaean mountaines.
For first, it is agreed by all which follow 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that it was in the 130. yeare, or* 1.1 in the yeare 131. after the floud, when 〈◊〉〈◊〉 came into the valley of Shinar, which Valley was afterward called Babylonia, Chush, and Chaldaea. If then the Arke had first found land in Armenia, it is very vnprobable, that the children of Noah which came into that valley could haue spent so many yeares in so short a passage: seeing the Re∣gion of Mesopotamia was onely interiacent, which might by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 iourneies haue beene past ouer in twentie dayes; and to hasten and helpe which passage the nauiga∣ble riuer of Tigris offered it selfe, which is euery where transpassable by boates of great burden: so as where the Desart on the one side resisted their expedition, the ri∣uer on the contrarie side serued to aduance it; the riuer rising out of the same ri∣uer [unspec 10] of mountaines, or at the foote of them, where the Arke of Noah was first supposed to settle it selfe; Then, if the Nations which followed Nimrod still doubted the sur∣prise of a second floud (according to the opinions of the ancient Hebrewes) it soun∣deth ill to the eare of reason, that they would haue spent many yeeres in that low and ouerflowne Valley of Mesopotamia, so called of the many Riuers which imbroyder or compasse it: for the effects witnessed their affections, and the workes, which they vndertooke, their vnbeliefe; being no sooner arriued in Shinar, but they began to prouide themselues of a defence (by erecting Babel) against any future or feared in∣vndation. Now at Babel it was that Nimrod began his Kingdome, the first knowne Citie of the world founded after the floud, about 131. yeares, or (as others suppose) [unspec 20] ten yeeres later: though (for my selfe) I rather thinke, that they vndertooke that worke in two respects; first, to make themselues famous, To get vs a name (saith the* 1.2 Text:) Secondly, thereby to vsurpe dominion ouer the rest.
Beros. l. 1.
Gene. 10. 10. Beros. l. 1.