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Sect. V. Against the fabulous Berosus's fiction, that the Italian

Janus was Noah.
268

Sect. VI. That Gomer also and his son Togorma, of the posterity

of Japhet, were first seated about Asia the Less: and that

from thence they spread westward into Europe; and north-

ward into Sarmatia.

Sect. VII. Of Javan the fourth son of Japhet; and of Mesch of

Aram, and Meshech of Japhet.
274

Sect. VIII. Of Ascanez and Riphath, the two eldest sons of

Sect. IX. Of the four sons of Javan; and of the double significa-

tion of Tharsis, either for a proper name or for the sea. 281

Sect. X. That the seat of Chush the eldest son of Ham was in

Arabia, not in Ethiopia; and of strange fables, and ill trans-

lations of scripture, grounded upon the mistaking of this point.

§. 1. Of Josephus's tale of an Ethiopess wife to Moses, grounded

on the mistaking of the seat of Chush.

§. 2. A dispute against the tale of Josephus.

§. 3. Chush ill expounded for Ethiopia, Ezek. xxix. 10.

§. 4. Another place of Ezekiel, chap. xxx. ver. 9. in like manner

§. 5. A place of Isaiah xviii. 1. in like manner corrupted by taking

Chush for Ethiopia.

§. 6. That upon the like mistaking, both Terrhaea in the story of

Sennacherib, and Zera in the story of Asa are unadvisedly made

§. 7. A further exposition of the place, Isaiah xviii. 1.

Sect. XI. Of the plantation and antiquities of Egypt.

§. 1. That Mizraim the chief planter of Egypt, and the rest of

the sons of Ham, were seated in order, one by another. ibid.

§. 2. Of the time about which the name of Egypt began to be

known; and of the Egyptians' lunary years, which made their

antiquities seem the more fabulous.

§. 3. Of certain vain assertions of the antiquity of the Egyp-

§. 4. Against Pererius; that it is not unlikely but that Egypt was

peopled within 200 years after the creation; at least, that both

it and the most part of the world were peopled before the

§. 5. Of some other reasons against the opinion of Pererius. 303

§. 6. Of the words of Moses, Gen. x. verse the last, whereupon

Pererius grounded his opinion.

§. 7. A conclusion resolving of that which is most likely, touch-

ing the Egyptian antiquities; with somewhat of Phut, (another

son of Ham,) which peopled Libya.
306

Sect. XII. Of the eleven sons of Canaan, the fourth son of Ham.

§. 1. Of the bounds of the land of Canaan; with the names of

his eleven sons.

§. 2. Of the portions of Zidon and Heth.

§. 3. Of the Jebusites and Amorites.

§. 4. Of the Gergesites, Hevites, and Harkites.

§. 5. Of Sini and Arvadi.

§. 6. Of Zemari.

§. 7. Of Hamathi.

Sect. XIII. Of the sons of Chush, excepting Nimrod, of whom

§. 1. That most of the sons of Chush were seated in Arabia the

Happy; and of the Sabeans that robbed Job; and of the queen

that came to Solomon.

§. 2. Josephus's opinion of Dedan, one of the issue of Chush, to

have been seated in west Ethiopia, disproved out of Ezekiel

Sect. XIV. Of the issue of Mizraim; and of the place of Jeremy,

§. 3. Of the division of the earth in the time of Phaleg, one of

the sons of Heber, of the issue of Sem.

§. 4. Of the sons of Joctan, the other son of Heber.

§. 5. Of Ophir, one of Joctan's sons, and of Peru, and of that

voyage of Solomon.

§. 6. Of Havilah the son of Joctan, who also passed into the

East Indies; and of Mesha and Sepher named in the border-

ing of the families of Joctan; with a conclusion of this dis-

course touching the plantation of the world.

Of the beginning and establishing of government.

Sect. I. Of the proceeding from the first government under the

eldest of families to regal, and from regal absolute to regal

tempered with laws.

Sect. II. Of the three commendable sorts of government, with

their opposites; and of the degrees of human society.

Sect. III. Of the good government of the first kings.

Sect. IV. Of the beginning of nobility; and of the vain vaunt

thereof without virtue.

Of Nimrod, Belus, and Ninus; and of memorable things about

Sect. I. That Nimrod was the first after the flood that reigned

like sovereign lord; and that his beginning seemeth to have

been of just authority.

Sect. II. That Nimrod, Belus, and Ninus were three distinct

Sect. III. That Nimrod, not Assur, built Nineveh; and that it is

probable, out of Isaiah xxiii. 13. that Assur built Ur of the

Sect. IV. Of the acts of Nimrod and Belus, as far as now they

Sect. V. That we are not to marvel how so many kingdoms could

be erected about these times; and of Vexoris of Egypt, and

Tanais of Scythia.
366

Sect. VI. Of the name of Belus, and other names affine unto

Sect. VII. Of the worshipping of images begun from Belus in

Sect. VIII. Of the wars of Ninus; and lastly, of his war against

Of Zoroaster, supposed to have been the chief author of magic

arts; and of the divers kinds of magic.

Sect. I. That Zoroaster was not Cham, nor the first inventor of

astrology, or of magic; and that there were divers great ma-

gicians of this name.

Sect. II. Of the name of Magia; and that it was anciently far

diverse from conjuring and witchcraft.

Sect. III. That the good knowledge in the ancient magic is not

to be condemned; though the Devil here, as in other kinds,

hath sought to obtrude evil things under the name and colour

of good things.

Sect. IV. That Daniel's misliking Nabuchodonosor's condemning

of the magicians doth not justify all their practices.

Sect. V. The abuse of things which may be found in all kinds, is

not to condemn the right use of them.

Sect. VI. Of the divers kinds of unlawful magic.

Sect. VII. Of divers ways by which the Devil seemeth to work

Sect. VIII. That none was ever raised from the dead by the

power of the Devil; and that it was not the true Samuel which

appeared to Saul.

Of the memorable buildings of Ninus, and of his wife Semiramis;

and of other of her acts.

Sect. I. Of the magnificent building of Nineveh by Ninus; and

of Babylon by Semiramis.

Sect. II. Of the end of Ninus, and beginning of Semiramis's

Sect. III. Of Semiramis's parentage and education, and meta-

morphosis of her mother.

Sect. IV. Of her expedition into India, and death after discom-

fiture; with a note of the improbability of her vices. 408

Sect. V. Of the temple of Belus built by Semiramis; and of the

pyramids of Egypt.

THE PREFACE.

THE

PREFACE.

How unfit and how unworthy a choice I have made of myself, to undertake a work of this mixture, mine own reason, though exceeding weak, hath sufficiently resolved me. For had it been begotten then with my first dawn of day, when the light of common knowledge began to open itself to my younger years, and before any wound received either from fortune or time; I might yet well have doubted, that the darkness of age and death would have covered over both it and me, long before the performance. For, beginning with the creation, I have proceeded with the history of the world; and lastly purposed (some few sallies excepted) to confine my discourse within this our renowned island of Great Britain. I confess that it had better sorted with my disability, the better part of whose times are run out in other travels, to have set together (as I could) the unjointed and scattered frame of our English affairs, than of the universal: in whom had there been no other defect (who am all defect) than the time of the day, it were enough; the day of a tempestuous life, drawn on to the very evening ere I began. But those inmost and soul-piercing wounds, which are ever aching while uncured; with the desire to satisfy those few friends which I have tried by the fire of adversity; the former enforcing, the latter persuading; have caused me to make my thoughts legible, and myself the subject of every opinion, wise or weak.

RALEGH, HIST. WORLD. VOL. I.

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