and some knowledge of the arts and sciences of that time,
though their religion was already deformed by Sabaism. The
influence which their civilization and their religion had on the
countries to which they journeyed, and in the sequel on Europe,
after the time of Alexander the Great, will be among the
subjects of occasional notice in the succeeding chapters of this
volume.
CHAPTER II.
T H E D I S P E R S IO N .
SPREAD OF MANKIND EASTWARD, NORTHWARD, AND WESTWARD,
FROM BABYLONIA.
Limits of the Territories about to be occupied.—Directions taken Eastward
and Westward.—Noah’s Family commingle in Armenia.—The Shemitic
People reoccupy Babylonia.—The mixed Tribes of this Territory called
Chaldeans.—Spread of the Cushites from Babylonia to Media, Persia, and
Central Asia.—Phut, the supposed Leader of the Mongols.—Georgian
and Tibetan character—Similarity of Eastern and Western Architecture.
Western origin of the Chinese.—Spread of the Cushites Northward
and again Westward, along the Taurus.—Second commixture o f the Sons
of Japhet and Ham.—Descent of the Chasdim into Babylonia.—The
Cushite Dominions centre in Babylonia.—Spread o f the Sons of Togormah,
Gomer, and other Descendants of Japhet.—Nimrûd’s Death.—Ninus or
Belus I I . invades Armenia.—Haïk and his Descendants govern Armenia.
Tombs of Noah and his Wife.—Haikanians and Togormeans.—Aramais
changes the name of Gihon to Araxes.—War of Aram with the Medians.
—Derivations of the name of Armenia.—Settlements o f Togormah.—
Meshed and Askenaz.—Northern spread of the Sons of Japhet.3iHam’s
Posterity in Syria and Arabia.—The ’Adites and other lost Tribes of
Arabia. Traditional Account of the Curse of Ham and his Descendants
in Africa.—Cusha-dwipa, within and without.—Sanc’ha-dwipa.—Axumitic
or Amharic character.—Countries of Habache or Ethiopia, Nubia, &c.,
first occupied, next Egypt.—Architecture earned into Greece.—The
Chaldean Kingdom of U’r.—Kahtân and his followers occupy Arabia.—
Possession of Jerah and Uzal.—The Cushites pass into Africa.—Chaldeans,
their Language used in Mesopotamia.—Derivation of the name o f Chaldean.
The Chaldean Tribes.—The Chaldean Nation and Priests.—
Chaldean Philosophy, &c.
W i t h the exception of the tracts mentioned in the preceding
chapter, as having been partially occupied to the westward by
the descendants of Mizraim, the possessions of the sons of Noah
had scarcely hitherto extended beyond the limits of Armenia