Far different fcenes in Britain's ifle I fee, And brifk Champaign improves their sparkling wit. fociety as a difgrace, that they boast of it as a privilege; and both myself and Mr. Banks, when particular persons have been pointed out to us as members of the Arreoy, have questioned them about it, and received the account that has been here given from their own lips. They have acknowledged, that they had long been of this accurfed fociety, that they belonged to it at that time, and that feveral of their children had been put to death. Hawkesworth's Voyages, vol. ii. p. 207. ODE ADDRESSED TO EDMOND MALONE, ESQ. ON HIS PRE- WHY, Edmond, would you rafhly thus Bryant, whofe learned lote profound (a) "The wonderful people to whom I allude were the descen dants of CHUS, and called Cuthites and Cufeans." Bryant's ANC. MYTHOL. vol. I. Pref. p. 7.— Upon the history of this people my fystem chiefly turns.' Vol. III. Pref. P. 6. (b) According to this learned writer's calculation, several hundred years must have elapsed after the Deluge, before the mud was fufficiently confolidated for the march of the Cuthites; whose rout he has traced with so much accuracy, that the reader is tempted to believe he is reading the account of fome old Cufean quarter-mafter-general. See ANC. MY THOL. vol. III. p. 24, 25, and compare Richardfon's DISSERTATION, p. 400. He He paints the woes of the old Ark, He proves, though doubting Walpole carp, A tune divine from anvils drew; The swains and maids to hear him flew, (c) "The Patriarch and his family were enclofed in an ark or covered float,-wherein was only one window of a cubit in dimenfions. It was clofed up, and faftened, fo that the perfons within were configned to darkness, having no light but what must have been administered to them from lamps and torches." ANC. MY THOL. Vol. II. p. 195. (d)" Noah was reprefented, as we may infer from Belofus, under the femblance of a fish by the Babylonians. Hyginus men. tions from Eratofthenes, that the fith Notius was the father of mankind; ex eo pifcc natos homines." ANC. MYTHOL. vol. II. P. 233. "Under the character of the Man of the Sea, whofe name was Oannes, we have an allegorical reprefentation of the great patriarch [Noah.]-His whole body, it feems, was like that of a fith, and he had under the head of a fish another head, &c, and a delineation of him was to be feen at Babylon." ANC. MYTHOL vol. III. p. 109. He He tells why men are brown or fair, (e) From Chus derives the GOLDEN AGE, (f) Lord Bacon's line from HAM. (g) With (e) See the correspondence between Mr. Bryant and Mr. Granville Sharp, where this important point is fettled to the fatisfaction of the learned world. "I had always fuppofed that black men in general (fays Mr. Sharp) were defcended from Cufh.Can the Cushi (commonly rendered Ethiopian) change his skin ? Jeremiah, ch. xiii. ver, 23.”—“ You seem to think (says our profound Mythologist in his answer) that all who are of that very deep tint, which is obfervable in the natives upon the coast of Guinea, are the offspring of Chus.-All the inhabitants of this vaft continent are affuredly the fons of Ham, but not equally defcended from Chus; for though his pofterity was very dark, yet many of the collateral branches were of as deep a dye; and Africa was peopled from Ham, by more families than one." The negroes (he adds) are woolly headed, and fo were fome of the Æthiopes or Cushim; but nothing can be inferred from this, for many of the latter had long hair. The Egyptians were Crifpi, -and had a tendency to woolly hair; fo that this circumstance cannot always be looked upon as a family characteristick." (f) "The Golden Age of the poets took its rife from a mistake, What was termed Γεκος Χρύσειν and Χρύσειον, fhould have been expreffed Xuesov and Xuctiov; for it relates to the fame æra and hiftory as the terms above mentioned; to the age of Cнus, and the domination of his fons." ANC. MYTHOL. vol. III. p. 163. (g) Noah, as our learned mythologist has proved, was called Noas, With holy zeal, wife Bryant, burn, You Noas, Nous, and Nufus: from hence he has traced, with infinite acuteness, a relationship between him and almost every god and hero of antiquity, particularly those whofe names end in rus or nufus. Dio-nufus, Satur-nus, Cro-nus, Ja-nus, Promethe-us, Sile-nus, Ofiris, Poferdon, Zeus, Perfeus, and Proteus, are very clearly proved to have been the patriarch Noah. In like manner, Argo and the Argonauts, Arcas, Arcadia, Arcadus, Acriuus, Acropolis, Arcafius, Arecca, Eree, Argos, Argolis, and many more, are all very fatisfactorily derived from ARCA, the Ark. See ANC. MYTHOL. paffim. It has indeed been objected, that till the Latin comparatively a late language, no fuch word as Arca was known; the ark of Noah being written in Hebrew Tibeb, in the Chaldaic Tibuca, in the Syriac Kibouta, in the Arabic Tabout, and in the Septuagint Tos. But what ftaunch etymologift would attend to fuch petty cavils? "Arcles, Arclus, and Arcalus (fays our learned auther) by which the deity of the place was called, are all compounded of the fame terms, Arca-El, five Arca Dei. From hence the Grecians and Romans denominated a perfonage, whom they ftiled Heracles and Hercules. But the original was Arclus and Arcalus; and fill more truly without the termination, Arca-el. It was not a name but a title, and given by the Sidonians and other people in the Eaft to the principal perfon preferved in the deluge; and it fignified the great ARCALIAN or ARKITE." ANC. MYTHOL. vol. III. p. 507. With equal facility, Eudorefchus (" Euo-AdArez Chus") is fhown to have been old CH US, and Cadmus to be ACHAD HAM, the Noble Lord HAM. Ibid, vol. II. p. 157. |