The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-16

one after his tongue, after their families il
their nations" v. 5. By "the isles of tn,
Gentiles" ;" EUROPE is generally allowed to bt
understood. The descendants of Sheps, tn,
youngest son of Noah, settled in and peopleC
ASIA. "The sons of Ham," 1.-THE second SOL
of Noah were Cttsh and Marian, and Pa,;t
and Canaan" V. 6. "Cttsh is supposed t.
have settled the Arabic nome near the Rec
Sea, in lower Egypt. Some think the Ethio
plans descended from him, whilst his sons
Sebd and HaUilah, and Sabtah, and Raanah
and Sdbtecdk settled in ASIA" The descend
ants of "Mezriam settled in Egypt, which
was otherwise called Near and Mezraim
Pha1 is supposed to have "peopled an Egyp-
tan nome or district bordering on Libya,'
and " Canaan" first peopled the land SC
called, known also, by the name of the Pro
missed Land. d."-The descendants of Canaan,
by the names of their ancestors were all
found in the land of Canaan, or the Promised
Land-as Sid0n, his first-bOrn, the father of
the Sidonions, and Heth, the father of the
Hittttes-" And the Jebusite, and the AnOrite,
and the Girgashite, and the Hiuite, and the
Arktte, and the Sinite, and the ArYadite, and
the Zemarite and the Hamathite and after
wards were the families of the Canaanites
spread abroad; And the border of the Ca
naanites was from Sidon, as thou camest to
Gerar, unto GAIA as thou goest unto Sodom
and Gomorrah, and Admah, and z Zeboim,
even unto Lasha. These were the sons of
Ham, after their families, and after their ton
tions," v. 15-20.
1t thus appears that the descendants of Ca
naan settled in, and peopled the land of Ca
naan, or the Promised Land, in ASIA; and
none of these families in AFRICA. 1t is also
well known that the Canaanites were not ne
groes; but, doubtless, of the same color as the
present inhabitants of Palestine.
Of Mizraina, Moses says, he begat Ludinl,
and AnanSn, and Lehabtm, and Ndphtahin,
and Patteusina, and Casluhin,, tout of whence
came Philistine) and Cdphtorim" Ltdin,,
being in the plural form of the Hebrew, is
supposed to be the name of people who in
habited MareOtis, canton in Egypt "Ana-
min, according to Bochart, were people who
inhabited a district about the temple of Jupi-
ter-Ammon," in Africa. +" Lehdbin, the Liby-
ans, or a people who dwelt on the west of the
Thebaid, and were called -Egyptaias.
Napht,shins, which people Bochart seemed
inclined to place in Marmarica," lin Libya,
Africa) or among the TrodlOdytes lin Africa,
on the western shore of the Arabian Gulf, or
Red Sea). Pathusim, the people, occording
to Bochart who inhabited the Thebaid lin
Upper Egypt called Pathros in Scripture.
Casl,ttin, the inhabitants of Colchis Tor the
shores of the Euxine Sea in Asia) Philistina-
the people called the Observation-Disclosures
of the land of Canaan-and Caphtorim, the
inhabitants of the Isle of Cyprus, according
to Calmet. See DIR. Adam Clark's comment
aries on the tenth chapter of Genesis.
Thus, we have in breif what is known with
any degree of probability, of the early settle
ments of the sons of Ham. Egypt appears,
from the Psalms, to have been called "the
land of Ham "-see Psalms LxxvII, 81: |
CIV, v. 23-27: CvI, v. %; and as three of his |
sons, to wit, Ctsh, and Mizrain,, and Phut,
as well, probably, as Ham himself, settled |
first in Egypt and thence peopled Libya, and
Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, and other portions of
africa, that portion of the Globe may have
been properly called the land of Ham," 1t
may be well, however, to remark, that several
places in the Scriptures are called Cttsh, and
Ethiopia, indicating, probably, the countries
where Citsh, or his descendants, the Cushites,
the river Gihon, Gen. CHI. II, v.
l3, the same is it that compasseth the whole
land of Ethiopia, or Cush, as it is in the
original Hebrew.-The Gihon is supposed by
Hadrian Reland-as cited by DIR. A. Clark,
comm. Gen. ch. II, v. 10, :" to be tho Ara1es
which runs into the Caspian Sea and "a the
land of Cush, washed by this river, he sup
poses to be the country of the Cussoei of the
Ancients." DR.. Archibald Alexander says
" The Scriptures appear to mention three
fold Cush, or Ethiopia. ny, Cush, Cuth,
Culka, Susiana, now Chuzetan, or the country |
Of Cush in Persia, on tho east of the lower
part of the Hiddekel, or Tigris, Gen. II, l3.
~ Cush, or Cttshan, on the north east of the
Red Sea, near the point of the Elanitic Gulf.
,3) C'ssh, Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, country
IN the southwest of the Red Sea, and south
If Egypt"
1t is "put for the Ethiopia Ps. Lxvur, 80,
N part surrounded by the upper Nile-in-
nabited by people of dark color, Jer. XIII,
q, opulent, Isaiah xLI1I, 3-xLv, 14-situ-
tied on the south of Egypt, Eek xxx, 10,
md therefore often mentioned with Egypt,
Neh. III, 9, Ezekiel Xxx, A, 5, 0; with the
Libyans, II, IL, l3, &C., &c." "Kush for
ethiopia is also found upon the hieroglyphic
of Egypt-Ges. Heb. Lex.-un-
Ter the word Cash.-" The descendants of
oftsh, in our translation of the Bible, are uni
ormily called Ethiopians, and their place of
es' dence Ethiopia-a name by the Greeks
nd Romans constantly applied to the country
outh of Egypt" DIR. A. Alexander.
They were called Ethiopians says
ate distinguished author-from two Greek
Tords denoting the color of their skin; and
sfairit of adwanf,,wa h., xrl..L A.. |