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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt:...and ' seated himself as he liked best. An orderly sorting is plainly denoted by the expressions used in the sacred text, viz. "after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in their nations." The reader is referred to the article Nations and Languages, under the second table of the Preliminary, for what we have further said on this head. III. THE EAST COUNTRIES, FROM THE TIME OF NIMROD TILL THE CALLING OF ABRAHAM THENCE TO CANAAN. 1. Paras, or Persia, a. Shushan, Cuthan, or Cuth, 2. ASSYRIAj a. Nineveh, or Nin-eve, b. Resen, c. Halah, or Calash, 3. Mesopotamia, t. llaran, or Padan Aram, b. Rehoboth(on the Euphrates), c. Rehobath (on the Tigris), 4. Chaldea, c. Calneh, b. Accad, c. Erech, d. Babylon, e. Ur, 1. Nod, Elam, Susiana, and Per sia successively. a. Suster, formerly Susa. 2. Kurdistan, formerly Ashur. a. Nino, formerly Ninus. 6. Larissa, of Xenophon. c. (East of Resen). 3. Al-Gezira. a. (Whither Abraham was called from Ur). b. El-Bir, formerly Bertha. c. Tecrit, formerly Vitra. 4. Part of Shinar, Babylonia, and Irak, successively. a. Al-Modain. b. Karkuf, formerly Sitace. c. Wasit, formerly Aracca. d Babil. e. Uz, (whence Abraham was called to Canaan). Moses, having named the other sons and grandsons of Cush to whom part of the east countries under question were allotted at the plantation after the flood, subjoins, that Cush begat Nimrod who began to be a mighty one upon earth. Indeed he was so very well skilled in warfare and hunting, that he became proverbial for valour and strength. Having seen the greater part of the neighbouring country subdued by his arms, he pitched upon the very spot where the city and tower of Babel had been begun, to rear the metropolis of his kingdom; which was therefore called...