Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . LAND OF THE SCORCHED FACES, Senoum, on Fkontiek uf Kordofardet, after a sketch of Lejean. naan and the west, we shall find only asingle significant departure. This leavesThe Hebrew the main stem on the north^t^t^TnlT in the Syrian desert, anditie in Cyprus. bears off in the direction ofthe northeastern extremity of the Medi-terranean, where it touches the coast,and is thence carried over to the islandof Cyprus. It is hardly to b
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . LAND OF THE SCORCHED FACES, Senoum, on Fkontiek uf Kordofardet, after a sketch of Lejean. naan and the west, we shall find only asingle significant departure. This leavesThe Hebrew the main stem on the north^t^t^TnlT in the Syrian desert, anditie in Cyprus. bears off in the direction ofthe northeastern extremity of the Medi-terranean, where it touches the coast,and is thence carried over to the islandof Cyprus. It is hardly to be doubtedthat along the line of this migrationother peoples had preceded the Semites, neighboring coast. The ancient wor-ship of Ashtaroth in Cyprus seems to beidentical with the corresponding cult inPhoenicia, and it may be concluded thatthe first race, by which is meant the firstprogressive race, in the island was ofthe old Canaanitish stock which fixeditself in the earliest ages along theeastern shore of the Mediterranean. Such, then, is the general view ofthe dispersion of the Semitic nations. 472 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Geographically considered, the racew
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