The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-02-02

According to the opinion commonly. the
general deluge. recorded by Moses, occurred
about the year Of tho world 1850 and two
thousand three hundred and fifty before the
Christian era There b difference, how
ever, among chronologizts, from one hundred
to three hundred years, On account of differ
ent ages assigned to different antediluvian
patriarchs. In about ono hundred and fifty
years from the deluge, that Is sabout two thou
sand two hundred years before our era, nc
cording to the common computation, the
inhabitants were considerable in the part Of
the earth where they lived, there being then
five generations. including the sons of Noah,
who lived to great ago. The building, OF
the attempt to build Babel. the separation Of
the human race and their dispersion into the
distant regions is usually fixed at this period.
Some Of them. the children and grandchildren
of Ham, went south TO Canaan or Palestine !;
and thence some Of them into Egypt where
the climate is mild and the soil rich, and
soon became numerous people. The de-
scentlants of Japhet settled in the more north
ern or northwestern parts Of Asia, and thence
passed into Europe. And the descendants of
Shem settled Chaldea, and thence emigratel
into the eastern and southeastern parts of
Asia. The people Of India are certainly an
ancient race. Some people suppose that
Noah himself, who lived three hundred years
af'ss the flood, and therefore one hundred
and twenty or one hundred and fifty
Years after the dispersion, travelled far
east Of the Euphrates. with some OF his
more favored descendants Those who de-
scended from Ham and settled Egypt, and
then other parts Of Africa, would be likely
in few generations to differ greatly from
the families of mankind. And the descend
ants of Japhet, vino settled in q more north
ern climate, would also, in few centuries
become a hardy, enterprising race, and in
many respects differ from those both of the
south in Africa, and of the east in India. In
the time of Abraham, about three hundred
and twenty or three hundred and fifty years
after the deluge, and nineteen hundred and
i:sy years before our own era, who was OF
the tenth generation from Noah, the popnla-
ton Of the world was great and extensive.
Every generation would naturally emigrate
to new regions, for the sake of more land for
themselves and posterity. The northern
parts of Africa, and probably Nubia and
Ethiopia, Arabia, middle and western Asia,
reaching also some way TO the north and the
more eastern parts of Europe, wore probably
Inhabited in lis day. Four hundred, or four
hundred and fifty years later. in the time OF
Noses, being about eight hundred years after
he deluge, the greater part OF the Eastern
continent was settled. Some extreme parts,
40 doubt, were vacant, and also large tracts
between some of the settlements In the
time of David aud Solomon, about one thou
sand wears before our era, aud fourteen hun
,.-e,l, or nearly that period from the deluge,
most of the countries Of the old continent
yere full of Inhabitants Wnre were frequent; !;
and large armies were easily esseIabled, es-
,ecially in the older and more populous
countries. while those Of the distant parts
were cuitiv waiting and rcpleuishing the earth.
There is no reason to disbelieve the accounts
of armies of hundreds Of thousands slauSh-
tered even in u single battle.