Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . THE niMEDlATE DESCENDANTS OF NOAH, AND THEIBLOCATION, OE THE PLACES OCCUPIED BY THEM. And the sons of Noah that went forth of the arkwere Shem, Ham, and Japhet these are the i i ^^^^^^^^^E 262 sons of Noah ; and of them was the whole earth over-spread.—(Gen. ix.) Of the descendants of Ham, were Nimrod andCanaan. Nimrod settled in th


Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . THE niMEDlATE DESCENDANTS OF NOAH, AND THEIBLOCATION, OE THE PLACES OCCUPIED BY THEM. And the sons of Noah that went forth of the arkwere Shem, Ham, and Japhet these are the i i ^^^^^^^^^E 262 sons of Noah ; and of them was the whole earth over-spread.—(Gen. ix.) Of the descendants of Ham, were Nimrod andCanaan. Nimrod settled in the land of Shinar, a dis-trict above the junction of the rivers Euphrates andTigris. And the beginning of his kingdom wasBal)el, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, m the landof Shinar.—(Gen. x.) Canaan occupied the east coast of the Mediterra-nean, from Sid on to Gaza, including the hill countryin which Jerusalem was built. The descendants of Shem were distributed fromMesha on the Persian Gulf, and towards Sephar,a mount of the east. By these were the isles of theGentiles divided in their lands; every one after histongue, after their families, in their


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