An abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world in five books ... : wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abrig'd according to his own method in the larger volume : to which is added his Premonition to princes.

CHAP. VIII. The Planting of Nations: Noah's Sons, and which was Eldest.

§. 1. SHEM, in Augustin's Judgment was Eldest; but the Septuagint, Iunius, &c. prefer Ia∣phet, from Gen. 10.21. The Hebrews putting the word Elder after Iaphet, which the Latin sets before. Gods Blessings are not tyed to Elder in Blood, but Piety: Otherwise Iaphet was 2 Years older than Shem, being begotten in Noah's 500th Year; when Shem in Noahs 600th Year was but 98. Compare Gen. 5.32. with 10.10. & 9.24. Namely Cham the Youngest.

§. 2. In this Plantation it is to be presumed. 1. So far as the Scriptures Treat of the Story of Nations, Profane Authors want Authority in point of Anti∣quity, whose Records have been borrowed from thence only. For Moses is found more Ancient than Homer, Hesiod, or any Greek, saith Eusebius, Prooem. in Chron. 2. We are to consider, that Noah who knew the World so long before, sent not his Sons at Ad∣venture, as Discoverers, but allotted them the Quar∣ters of their Habitation. This could not be sudden∣ly, Considering what Woods, Thickets, Pools, Lakes, Marishes, Fenns, and Boggs, 130 Years Desolation had bred in those fruitful parts. This made diffi∣cult, and slow Journeys and Marches, both from the East, and Shinar, till Increase of Issue forced them on further.

§. 3. Iaphet, with whom Moses beginneth, Planted the Isles of the Gentiles, Europe and the Isles about it, besides a Portion in Asia. Gomer, his Eldest Son is without Reason, placed in Italy by Berosus, Functi∣us,

&c. in the Tenth Year of Nimrod, and when Tubal was in Austria, or Biscai, in Spain, the Twelfth Year of Nimrod, Ann. 142 after the Flood: For before Babels Confusion the Company were not dispers'd; consider then the time of Building such a City, and a Tower, to equalize Mountains, said Berosus, or reach to Heaven, said Nimrod, which took an exceeding compass, and whose Foundation in Marish Ground was full of Labours: As for Materials the want was great, and the Workmen unexperienced, and the Work almost finished.

This time Glicas judged to be about 40 Years: So that Gomer and Tubal could not Plant so soon: Be∣sides the tedious conveying of Wives, Children, Cat∣tel from Shinar, to Italy, and Spain, 4140 Miles, through Countries, now of much more difficult Pas∣sage. Nimrod spent many Years in a short and more easy Journey to Shinar; and why did Tubal leave many rich Countries to Plant in Biscay, the most bar∣ren Country of the World? To say they had the Convenience of Navigation, shews Men know not what it is to carry Multitudes by Sea, with Cattel, on which they lived. Whether Navigation was then in Use, is doubted, considering how long it was before Men durst cross the Seas, and that the Invention was ascribed to the Tyrians long after by Tibullus.

§. 4. Gog and Magog, Tubal and Mesech, settled first about lesser Asia, where Beroaldus (whom I find most judicious in this Plantation out of Ezekiel 38. and 39.) findeth the Gomerians, Tubalines, and Togarminans. Iosephus in this Plantation led Eusebius, Epiphanius, and Ar. Montanus into many errours; and Gog and Magog have troubled many: But this Gog the Prince of Magogians, or Coelo-Syrians, must needs be the Successor of Seleucius Nicanor, who sought to extinguish the Iews Religion, and force them to Ido∣latry. Hermolaus Barborus maketh the Turks come from the Scythians: Iunius makes it a National Name

from Gyges, who slew Candaulus King of Lydia, where Strabo finds the Gygian Lake; and in the South Bor∣ders Iunius finds Gygarta, or Gogkarta in Syriak, Gogs City in Coelo-Syria, where Pliny placeth Bambice, or Hierapolis, which the Syrians call Magog: Though Strabo make both to be Edessa in Mesopotamia; but Ortelius doubts whether there be a mistake; yet may the Name be common, but certainly both were North of Israel. Magog might be Father of the Scythians, who wasted much of lesser Asia, Possessed the Coelo-Syria, and built Scythopolis, and Hierapolis, which them∣selves of Syrians call Magog, being North from Iudea; which Bellonius makes Aleppo, where the Mermaid was Worship'd, called Atergatis, and by the Greeks Derceto. Thus we see the Ancient Gomerians, and Tubalins were no Italians, or Spaniards: Though long after they might send Colonies thither.

The Iberians of Old were called Thobelos, of Tubal, who from thence passed to Spain to search Mines, saith Iustine; but 'tis more probable it was Peopled out of Africa. Mesech also is Neighbour to Tubal, of whom sprung the Miseans from Mount Adectas, to Pontus, afterwards called Cappadocia, which is the Mazoca, and is Magog's chief Country: Gomer was Neighbour to Togarma, Bordering on Syria and Cilicia, whose Posterity Peopled Germany and the Borders of the Earth, as Gomer signifieth. But want∣ing Room forward to Exonerate their swelling Mul∣titude, they returned back upon their Neighbours: Whereof they were called Cimbri, which signifies Robbers, in Camden's Judgment. And though in An∣cient times the Gauls used to beat them, as Caesar Reports; yet after they grew Warlike they pursued rich Conquests, even into lesser Asia, the Seat of their Progenitors. Samothes is by Annius made Brother of Gomer, and surnamed Dis; but Functius, and Vig∣nier do justly disclaim him; seeing Moses knew him not.

§. 5. Noah also by Annius is brought out of the East into Italy, to build Genoa, and there to live Nine∣ty-two Years; but Moses silence is to me a sufficient Argument to disprove this Report, seeing he did so carefully Record Nimrod's Cities. As for Berosus and others, whom he quotes for it, their Fragments are manifestly proved Spurious, neither could Noah be that Italian Ianus their First King, who Dyed but 150 Years before Aeneas, according to Eusebius, and Lived in the days of Ruth, 704. Years after Noah. Let the Italians content themselves with a Ianus from the Greeks, who Planted them 150 Years before the De∣struction of Troy; from whom they had their Idola∣try, as their Vestal Virgins, and Holy Fire from Ve∣sta his Wife, which no man will believe to proceed from Noah. There succeeded him Saturnus, Picus, Faunus, Latinus, before Aeneas, in the Days of Samp∣son.

§. 6. Nimrod Seating himself in Babylon, Reason and Necessity taught the rest to remove, to take the Benefit of those far extended Rivers which ran along Shinar, as well for convenience in their Journeys, as to provide for mutual entercourse for time to come. Thus Chush the Father settled near his Son Nimrod in the South of Chaldea along Gehon, which Tract Moses calls the Land of Chush, Gen. 2.13: Havila∣ah, the other Son of Chush took down Tigris on both sides, especially the East, which also is called the Land of Havila, Gen. 2.11. afterwards Susiana. Chush in length of time spread into Arabia the De∣sart, and Stony, where was the City of Chusca after∣wards called Chusidia by Ptolomy. So Seba and the rest Planted Arabia the Happy towards the Persian Gulf, from whence after the stoppage of Euphrates, they Traded to Babylon by Tigris. Gomer, Magog, and the other Sons of Iaphet took the lesser Asia, the better to spread themselves West and North. Tubalin ascended into Iberia. The Magogians to Sarmatia.

The Gomerians in Asia were called Cymerians, saith Herodotus; and their Country was after was called Ga∣latia by the Gallogreeks; whom the Scythians drove into Albania, and some into Phrygia, both called Cymerians, as was Bosphorus, and a City by it.

Togarma, Gomers Son, dwelt near Sidon, and over∣spread the lesser Armenia, whose Kings were called Tigranes. Meshach, Iaphet's Son, setled in Syracena, in Armenia, between the Mountains Moschici and Periards; out of whose North-East springs Araxis; and Euphrates out of the South: Of whom came the Moscovites, in the Judgment of Melancton. Madai, the Third Son of Iaphet, Planted Media.

§. 7. Iavan, the Fourth Son of Iaphet (from the West of lesser Asia) sent Colonies into Greece, whose Inhabitants were called Iones, that is, Athenians. Strabo, out of Hecasius, says the Iones came out of A∣sia, where the Name also remain'd. Meshech, the Sixth Son of Iaphet, of whom before. See §. 4. which Name differs little from Aram's Sons, Gen. 10.23. which 1 Chron. 1.17. is the very same. They dwelt North from Iury, and were Enemies to the Iews; and it may be they were under one Prince: but this Meshech commonly joined with Tubal. If there∣fore he Planted first near Iury; yet his Issue might pass into Cappadocia, and so into Hircania. Those which came of Aram, nearer the Iews, might be those to whom David fled in his Persecution, Psal. 120.5. Tiras is Father of the Thracians, as is generally held▪ and was Iaphet's Seventh Son.

§. 8. Ascanez, Son of Gomer, Eusebius makes Fa∣ther of the Gothians: Pliny finds Ascania, and the Ri∣ver of Ascanius, and the Lake of Ascanez, between Prusia and Nice in Phrygia: Iunius takes them for In∣habitants of Pontus and Bythinia, in which Ptolomy hath such a Lake: Strabo finds a City, River, and Lake in Mesia near Gio, as Pliny. But Ier. 51.27. determins it North of Asia near Ararat, and Minni,

Mountains of Armenia. Riphat, Gomer's Son, Fa∣ther of Riphcior Paphlagone, Famous in the North of Sarmatia, after called Henites; of whom Polonia, Russia, and Lithuania were Peopled: Melancton thinks they spread from the Baltick to the Adriatick Sea, and findeth a Venetian Gulf in Russia, called Heneti, the same with Veneti.

§. 9. Elisa, eldest Son of Iavan, was Father of the Nicolians, from whence the Grecians were called He∣lens, saith Montanus; and Ezek. 27.7. mentions the Isles of Elesa, that is, of Grece.

Tharsis, his Second Son, Planted Cilicia, where is the City Tharsis. This word is often put for the Sea, because the greatest Ships were there, and they were called Seamen, and the first Iones. Montanus and Cal. Paraphrase mistake it for Carthage.

Cittim, his Third Son, Father of the Macedonians, not Italians, Esa. 23. with 1 Mac. 1. Yet it may be, he first Planted Cyprus, where Iosephus found the City, which remained in Ierom's days, saith Pintus; but this Isle proving too narrow, they sent out and Peopled Macedon, whose Plantation Melancton a∣scribes to him.

Dodanim, his Fourth Son, settled at Rhodes; Doda∣nim and Rhodanim being easily confounded: He also sent Colonies to Epirus, where was the City Dodana.

§. 10. Chush, Eldest Son of Cham, with his Associ∣ates, Peopled Babylonia, Chaldea, and all the Arabias. Ethiopia was not his, as Iosephus, the Septuagint, and others misled by them, judged. First, From Numb. ••2.2. Moses's Wife was a Chushite, not an Ethiopian, as Iosephus Reports; who tells us, that Moses lead∣ing an Egyptian Army against the Ethiopians, the Kings Daughter fell in Love with, and betrayed the City Sheba to him, after called Meros. On the con∣trary, Strabo, and all Geographers, place Sheba in Ara∣bia, whence the Queen came to visit Solomon. Dami∣anus, and Goes, tell us, that the Prester Iohns of the

Aybssinians came of that Queen by Solomon. But with∣out Scripture or Probability, seeing her supposed Bastard assisted not his Brother Rehoboam against Shi∣shack King of Egypt. But Moses cleareth his Wives Kindred against Iosephus, making her a Midian, not far from Horeb. So Iethro's coming to Moses, &c. Chrisamensis also proveth Midia cannot be Ethio∣pia. Thirdly, So Ezek. 29.10. Nebuchadonosor's Conquest of Egypt is set out by the Bounds Seveneth, which is next Ethiopia and the Chushits, ill Translated Black Moors, for Arabians, the other next Neighbours; where∣as the Moors were beyond Seveneth, or Syene, as Scot∣land is beyond Barwick. Fourthly, So Ezek. 30.9. Chush cannot be Ethiopia, but Arabia: Whereto Nebu∣chadonosor (having Conquered Egypt, even the Tower Syene in Thebaida bordering on Ethiopia) sent Ships o∣ver the Red-Sea; which to the Ethiopians joyning to Syene, he needed not to have done, neither would the fall of Nilus suffer; nor was his invading that part of Arabia so fit by Land, all the length of Egypt being between, and all the tedious Desarts of Paran. Lastly, This placing a Family of Chush, from all the rest to go and come through Misraim, would make a confusion in the Plantation: Besides, there was ne∣ver any thing between Iews and Ethiopians, as between them and Chushits. Fourthly, So Esa. 18.1. turning Chush, to Ethiopia for Arabia, puts one King∣dom for another, confounding the Story: For what Kingdom beyond the River of Ethiopia can be found, which Assur was to waste as an Enemy to the Iews, who were never injured by the Ethiopians, much less by any beyond them? But I acknowledge, that here Egypt, which threatned Israel, is threatned, and A∣rabia with it, Esa. 19.20. The like Errour is commit∣ted in 1 Kings 19.9. Making Tirhaka an Ethiopian, for a Chushite, or Arabian, as in Zerah, 2 Chron. 14.9. For how should he bring such an Army through such a Kingdom as Egypt?

§. 11. Mizarim, Cham's Second Son, took into Egypt along Nilus unto Syene, bordering on Ethiopia to the South from the Mediterranean Sea; which was his North Border. Phut, the Third Son travell'd to the West beyond him along the Sea, Inhabiting Mauritania. Egypt was known to Moses and the Prophets by the Name of Mizraim, but was called Egypt by a King of that Name, otherwise called Rameses, the Son of Be∣lus, who chased his Brother Danaeus into Greece, where he setled in Morea after the Flood, 877. Many are the Fancies of the Egyptian Antiquity of Three Hundred and Thirty Kings before Amasis, Contemporary with Cyrus; and of their Story of 13000 Years, &c. And Mercator pleads their Anti∣quity from their Dynasties, of which the Sixteenth be∣gan with the Flood, so that the first must reach the Creation. But Eusebius begins the Sixteenth with A∣braham 292 Years after the Flood. Annius begins the first Dynasty 131 Years after the Flood, forgetting that he had said, that Nimrod came but that Year to Shinar, so that the Dynasty could not begin till after the Confusion. But where Pererius holds it impossible that Egypt could be Peopled 200 Years after Adam, and supposing it not replenished at all before the Flood, I find no force in the assertion. For we have no reason to give less Increase to the Sons of Adam, than Noah, the Age of the one being double, and af∣ter a while treble to the other, which Argueth strength to beget many a long time. This appeared in Cham, who replenished Five Cities with his own Issue. Nimrod's Troops at Shinar were great, no doubt; yet it is probable all came not thither, as may be gathered by the Multitudes, which Encountered Semiramis in the East Indian Wars. As for Egypt being an Established Kingdom in the Days of Abra∣ham, it argues 'twas Inhabited long before: And contrary to Pererius, we may rather wonder how the World could contain the Issue of those long li∣ving

heathful Fathers, than doubt the Peopling of it. For if our short Lives, wherein scarce one in Ten Liveth to 50 Years, the World wants no People: And if Wars and Pestilence did not cut them off by Thousands, the World could not contain them: What would it do if none dyed before 50 or 100 Years? Then Conceive the Millions, when Men Lived 8 or 900 Years &c. Pererius is likewise deceived in the occasion of their dispersing at Babel: For had not that occasion happened, their Increase would in short time have forc'd them to seek new Habitations, &c. That therefore the World was all over Peopled with offenders, it appeareth by the Universality of the Flood. As for Egypt's Antiquity, it is probable that Mizaraim's Sons found some Monuments in Pil∣lars, Altars, or other Stones, or Metals, touching former Government there, which the Egyptians ad∣ded to the Lives of the Kings after the Flood, which succeeding Times through Vain-Glory amplified. So Berosus, and Ephigenes, tell us of the like Antiquities of Chaldea where the Babylonians knew Letters and A∣stronomy 3634 Years befor Alexander the Great. E∣gypt was divided in the Upper, called Thebaida, from Syene to Memphis, and in the lower, from Memphis to the Mediterranean Sea, making the Form of a Δ by Memphis, Pelusin and Alexandria. Thebes had 100 Gates, called Diospolis by the Greeks; No-hamon in Scripture, from the incredible number of Inhabi∣tants. Phut, the Third Son of Cham, Planted Lybia, whose Ancient People were called Phuts, said Iose∣phus; and Pliny found the River of Phut in Maurita∣nia, running from Mount Athos Two Hundred Miles: Phut and Lud Associated Egypt, Ezek. 30.

§. 12. Canaan, Fourth Son of Cham, Possessed Pa∣lestine, from Sidon to Gerar in length, Gen. 10. Si∣don, his Eldest Son built a City of his Name in Phoe∣nicia. See ca. 7.6.3. Heth, his Second Son, Father of the Hittites, in the South about Beersheba, near Paran.

Iebusen, the Third Son, Father of the Iebusites, about Iebus, or Hierusalem, Conquered by David. Amoreus, the Fourth, East of Iordan from Arnon, past the Sea of Galilee, containing two Kingdoms. His Posteri∣ty also Inhabited the Mountains of Iuda, part of I∣dumea near Libania. Gergeseus, the Fifth, East from the Galil••an Sea; where was Gerasa; he also Built Geris, after called Beritus, Three Miles from the Ri∣ver Adonis in Phoenicia. Hevius, the Sixth, under Libanus, near Emath: The Caphtorims expelled many of them. Archius, the Seventh, between Libanus and the Sea over against Tripolis: He Built Archas. Sini∣us, the Eighth, Iunius placeth him South of Iebus; more probably he Built Sin, which the Iews call Se∣in, or Symira by Ptolomy, or Synoctis by Arcas, af∣ter Brocardus. Aradeus, the Ninth, Built Arados in the Isle against Phoenice, opposite to Antarados in the main Ocean. Zemari, the Tenth Son, 'tis uncer∣tain whether he Inhabited Coelosyria, or was Father of the Perizzites, or the Emisani; or of Samaria, which latter the Scripture seemeth to disprove, 1 Kings 16.28. Hamath, the Eleventh Son, Founder of Emath in Iturea, East of Hermon, joining to Libanan; not Emath, which Iosepus and Ierom confound with Antioch, or Epiphania, &c.

§. 13. Seba, or Saba, Eldest Son Chush, setled in the West of Arabia the Happy, East of the Red Sea. Regama, or Raama, the Fourth Brother, and Sheba his Son took the West side by the Persian Gulf. Pli∣ny saith, the Sabeans dwelt along the Persian and A∣rabian Seas, where Ptolomy places the City Saba to∣ward the Red Sea, and Regma toward the Persian; where also Sabta, another Brother, is found by Monta∣nus out of Ptolomy. Beroaldus thinks it strange, that any of these Sabeans should go One Thousand Two Hundred Miles to Rob Iob in Traconitis, between Palestine and Coelosyria: But Guilandinus Melchior findeth Sabeans nearer in Arabia the Desart,

whom Ptolomy calls Save, now Semiscasac, from whence the Magi came to Worship Christ, as he judgeth. The Queen of Saba, which came to Solomon, Bero∣aldus and Pererius bring from East Arabia; I rather think the West next Midian and Ezion Gaber, then under the command of Solomon.* 1.1 Sabeta hath there left his Name in the City Sabbatha or Sabota.

Iosephus's fancy is, that Saba was Father of the E∣thiopians about Meros, and Sabta of the Aabanies, is Confuted by the Names. For in Arabia Desert, are the Cities of Saba, or Save, and Ragana for Regma, and People called Raabeni, of Raamah. In Arabia the Happy, are Rhegama and Rabana, and the Cities Sap∣ta; in the South of Arabia, is Sabatta the Metropolis, and the great City Saba toward the Red Sea, and the Region Sabe more Southern.

Didan the second Son of Raamah, whom Iosephus and Ierom carry to West-Ethiopia, but Ezechiel joyn∣ed with Father and Brother, in Trade to Tyre, with precious Cloaths, which Naked Black-Moors never knew 'till the Portugals Traded with them. But Ie∣remy and Ezechiel will shew us Dedan near Idumea, which will remove all Scruples.

§. 14. Ludim, Eldest Son of Mizraim, Father of the Lybians in Africa, where the Lydians are also adjoined, as a Nation of Africa: For 2 Chron. 12.3. Lubim, or Luhaei is the same with Ludim in Hebrew, saith Montanus, with some difference in writing from the Lybies. Misraim's other Sons are assigned no certain place in Holy Scripture; only the Philistins are said to come of Casluhim and Caphtorim, in the Entrance into Egypt by the Lake Serbonis, and the Hill Cassius. Caphtorim, between that and Pelusium, is a Tract called Sithroitis, where Pliny and Stephanus place the City Sethron, which Ortelius takes to be Hercules parva in Ptolomy. The Philistins Inhabited the South of Canaan, driving out the Avims, or He∣vites, saith Iunius on Gen. 10.14. Deut. 2.23. Ios.

13.3. where their Bounds are set forth, and their five Principalities.

§. 15. Sem's Posterity Moses reckoneth up last, that he might proceed with the Genealogy of the Hebrews to Abraham, for which Arpbaxad's Age on∣ly is expressed, and his Children, and of Aram. The common Opinion possessed him of what was beyond Tygris to the Indian-Sea, saith Ierom, saving India, which I believe Noah held; to whom, after Ioctan, came Ophir and Havilah, and planted there; of whom hereafter.

Elam, Father of the Elamites, the Princes of Persia, whose Seat was Susan, by the River Vlai, which Pto∣lomy calls Eulaeus, which runneth into Hiddekel. A∣sher, the Second Son of Sem, Father of the Assyrians, disdaining Nimrod's Pride, left Babel, and built Ni∣nivy, according to the common Opinion, and con∣tended for the Empire.* 1.2 Arphaxad was Father of those Chaldeans which were about Vr; the rest were possessed by the Sons of Cham. Lud, Sem's Fourth Son Iosephus and Ierom place in lesser Asia, but I question it. Aram, his Fifth Son, Father of the Syrians, as well about Mesopotamia as Damascus. Padan Aram, or Aram Neharaim, that is, Syria between two Rivers, which were Tygris and Euphrates: Strabo reports it was antiently called Aramenia, or Aramia; and the Name Aram was changed into Syria by Syrus, before Moses, saith Eusebius. Part of it is called Ancobaritis, by Ptolomy, being divided by the River Chaboras, saith Iunius.

Vz or Hus, Aram's Eldest Son, built Damascus, saith Iosephus, Ierom, and Lyra. It hath Iordan West, Mount Seir East, Edrai South, and Damascus North, in the East part of Traconitis, and adjoining to Basan, where Iob the Son of Hus, the Son of Nahor dwelt; full of petty Kings in the days of Ieremy, 25.20.

Hal, Aram's Second Son, Father of the Armenians, saith Ierom; but Iunius placeth him in the Palmeri••n

Desarts, by Euphrates; where Ptolomy places the Ci∣ty Cholle. Gether, the Third Son set down in Cassiotis and Seleucis, and is seated where Ptolomy places the City Gindarus.

Mesech, the Fourth Son set down North of Syria, tween Silicia and Mesopotamia, near the Mount Ma∣sius. These Plantations can no other ways be known, than by this probability: The Fathers having large Regions, planted their own Children in them for mutual Comfort, 'till Ambition bred expulsion of Natives; and that every Man began to desire a di∣stinct place, and disliked to live in Common.

Phaleg, Son of Heber, in whose time fell the divisi∣on of Tongues, which the Hebrews refer to his Death, Anno 340 after the Flood; for at his Birth, Anno 101, there could be no multitude to divide. They say farther, that Heber gave Phaleg his name by Pro∣phesy, foreseeing the division to come. But Heber might, without Prophecy, foresee the division of Families would grow upon the encrease of the World; besides, Phaleg might change his Name upon that occasion, as Iacob into Israel, long before he died. For his death fell in Ninus's days, but 12 Years be∣fore Abraham, whereas the division had been long be∣fore, and the Multitudes were infinite in Ninus's days.

Ioctan, Heber's other Son, had thirteen Sons, all in∣habiting from Copuz or Coas, a Branch of Indus, in∣to the East, saith Ierom; but their particular pla∣ces are uncertain.

Sheba, or Seba, one of them may be he of whom Dionysius Apher, writing of East India, saith, The Sabaei and Taxili do dwell in the midst of them. As for the Sabeans which sprang of Chush, we found them in Arabia; and many will place Shaba, Abraham's Grand-Child there, in Arabia Deserta, where Ptolomy places a City of his Name, whose Inhabitants pil∣lag'd Iob. Iob 1.15.

Opher, another of Ioctan's Sons, Ierom placeth in

an Island of East-India; and indeed Opher is found a∣mong the Molucks. Ar. Montanus and Diessis seek it in Peru of America; and Iunius taketh Barbatia in Characene, a Province in Susiana to be it, corrupted from Parvaim to Barbatia. As for Peru, Iucatan, &c. in America, they are late mistaken Names.

Havilah, another of Ioctan's Sons, is thought to Inhabit the Continent of East-India, watred by the River Ganges; as the Country of Havilah the Son of Chush, was watred by Pison, West of Tygris, or ra∣ther to Shur. But if the common Opinion of Ierom be true, Ioctan and his Posterity setled about Mesech, or the Hill Masius; between Cilicia and Mesopota∣mia: And that these Three Sons, or their Issue, went afterwards into East-India.

As for Sepher, a Mountain of the East, as Ierom looks for it in East-India, so Montanus in the West, maketh it Andes in America: But for Moses Sepher, we find Sipphora, placed by Ptolomy, on the East side of Masius; neither is it strange to say, Mesopo∣tamia is in the East, Numb. 23.7. This Order of Plantation which I have followed, doth best agree with the Scripture, Reason, and Probalities; which Guides I follow, little esteeming Mens private O∣pinions.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Plin. l. 14.12.
• * 1.2

  Sect. 1. Sect. 3.