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 . s of the rivers were fully a hun- dred miles south of the present shoreline. Along the banks of these streams,high up to the foothills out of whichtheir upper waters are drawn, especiallyon the east by a multitude of smallerstreams, the earliest, or at least one ofthe earliest, civilizations was developedin the world. It was the work of theRuddy races coming from the they planted themselves at thenorth and the south, a
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 . s of the rivers were fully a hun- dred miles south of the present shoreline. Along the banks of these streams,high up to the foothills out of whichtheir upper waters are drawn, especiallyon the east by a multitude of smallerstreams, the earliest, or at least one ofthe earliest, civilizations was developedin the world. It was the work of theRuddy races coming from the they planted themselves at thenorth and the south, according to theirrace descent, and became in course oftime much more strongly marked byethnic differences than they were ontheir first arrival in the country. It isfrom this region that the different racesbelonging to the Hamitic and Semiticfamilies of mankind made their way atlength into the western foreground ofhistory, where we shall discover them ina somewhat clearer light than that inwhich they have thus far been , then, is the end of what may beappropriately called the Noachite dis-persion of mankind. Chapter XXV.—The Havtitic N the current chapterthe attempt will bemade to trace outgeographically the va-rious lines by whichthe Hamitic race wasdistributed, first intoSouthwestern Asia, and thence througha large part of Northern Afxica, to theborders of the Western ocean. TheHamitic races lie inquiry will begin with theKaclfir/ace movements of the Hamiticdistribution. divisiou of mankind, notfrom anj^ preference for that race as adominant people of antiquity, not be-cause their civilization reached a hieher stage than that of the cognate races, butrather for geographical reasons. TheHamites were distributed to the southand west, and are thus the southernmostbranch of the Ruddy races. It will,therefore, be convenient to begin on thatside of the ethnic distribution which liesnearest to the lines marking the disper-sion of the Black races, and the
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