CHAP. I I .] COMMIXTURE OF THE THREE RACES IN ARMENIA. 39
Having remained here a short time, Ha'ik proceeded with Country of
the principal part of his tribe in a westerly direction, leaving Haits-d-sor.
his grandson Cadmus near Ararat. After journeying for a
few days, he reached an extensive plain, to which he gave the
name of Hare (Fathers), in order that his posterity might be
always thus reminded, that their founder and father was of the
raee of Togormah. >
Here he took possession of the fertile district, lying along
the Murad-chai, probably a little to the north of Mush, and
built a town which he called Haicashen,1 after his own name;
here also he became fixed, and the people already there submitted
readily to his laws and government.8 The people in
question, in all probability, were some of those left by Shem in
the second stage of his progress towards Shinar; and as Ha'ik
had already been joined by some of the Cushites near Ararat,
the commixture of the three races in Armenia at this early
period seems evident.
The country then occupied and called Hare, was the tract
lying westward of Lake Van, and extending in the same
direction from thence to Erz-Bum; the central part of which
was afterwards known by the name of Ha’its-d-sor,3 or the
valley of the Armenians.
Beverting now to Babylonia, the country recently quitted
by the Armenians, we find that, during the height of his power,
Nimrud entrusted the government of the northern portion of
his dominions to his son Ninus, who was in consequence pro- Ninus reigns
moted from the Assyrian city of Telane, which was probablya meve ’
built by Nimrud under the name of Tunim,4 to the capital of
the empire, Nineveh, a name signifying the habitation of a son,
or-a place to receive the descendants of Nimrud.9 Whilst
governing this part of the empire as deputy, Ninus considerably
enlarged the city which had been built by his father, and constructed
a wall around it 100 feet high, with 1500 towers ;6
1 Michael Chamish, Hist. Armen., translated by J . Avdall, Esq., vol. I.,
p. 5.
2 Ibid. 8 Or Haisudsor, Moses Choronensis, lib. I ., cap, x., p. 29.
4 ’Abu-l-Faraj, Hist. Dynast., p. 15.
8 Bishop Cumberland’s Times of Planting Nations, p. 165.
” Diod, Sic., lib. I I ., cap. iv.-