Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . national name of Muscoviteis derived, through Moschi, from theJaphetic Meshech. It is believed that the great Thracianstock of mankind may be traced up toTiras, the seventh and last of the Japhetic progeny. It isthought that thecountry intowhich thisbranch of therace was distrib-uted was on thenorth of theBlack sea, onthe banks of theDniester, thename of whichriver is believedto preserve theetymology o fTiras. Aft
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . national name of Muscoviteis derived, through Moschi, from theJaphetic Meshech. It is believed that the great Thracianstock of mankind may be traced up toTiras, the seventh and last of the Japhetic progeny. It isthought that thecountry intowhich thisbranch of therace was distrib-uted was on thenorth of theBlack sea, onthe banks of theDniester, thename of whichriver is believedto preserve theetymology o fTiras. After-wards the samegeographical name was carried into Eu-rope. The Thracians were possible deriva-originally distributed over SracL^froma wide range of country, from the Black sea as far asthe borders of the Cimmerians. It will be seen that according to thisgenealogical scheme, deduced from theBook of Genesis, the dis- ^^™persion of the Taphethites japhethites as developed west- was wholly to the westward the point of departure. This in-dicates that the eastward migrations ofthe race, so important in the subsequentdevelopment of the Medo-Persian up-. Wm im* -;- - ; DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES.—EAST ARYAN DEPARTURE. 479 lands and India, were unknown to theHebrews, or at least omitted from theethnic tables which they preserved. Asa general fact, the Hebrew accounts ofpeoples other than themselves were lim-ited to the necessity of the case, whilethe movements of the Abrahamites wereexpanded and developed in full propor-tions. A second observation relative to theJaphetic dispersion is that according tothis sevenfold tribal scheme all, or near-ly all, the races of Indo-European originHow far the He- are located in Armenia and5aX°tKx-e°f around the shores of thetended. Black sea. The territory contemplated by the Hebrew author ex-tended westward into Phrygia and atleast as far as the ^gean islands. It issafe to mark out the wilds of Thrace andthe island of
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