GENESIS, X. 1.

"These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth."

written in two characters. The map may be usefully compared with that drawn to explain Gen. ii. 10.

Gomer, or the Cimmerians.
Magog, or the Scythians.
Madai, or the Medes.
Javan, or the Ionians.
Tubal, or the Tibareni.
Meshech, or the Moschi.
Tiras, or the Thracians.
Togarmah, or Armenia.
Elishah, or Greece.

Tarshish, or Tarsus.

Kittim, Chittim, or the Cyprians.

Dodanim, or the Rhodians.

The sons of Ham,

Cush, or Ethiopia.

Mizraim, or Lower Egypt.

Phut, or North Africa.

Canaan.

Seba, or Meroë.

Havilah, or Arabia.

Sheba, part of ditto.

Dedan, part of ditto.

Nimrod, who dwelt in Babylon; whence Asshur,

or the Assyrians, and Nineveh.

Ludim, or the Egyptian Arabs.

Lehabim, or the Libyans.

Pathrosim, or Upper Egypt.

Philistines, and Caphtorites.

The sons of Shem,

Elam, or Western Persia.

Asshur, or the Assyrians.

Arphaxad, Arep-cheshed, or the Chaldees.

Lud, or the Lydians.

Aram, or the Syrians.

Mash or Mesha, on the Persian Gulf.

Eber, or the Hebrews.

Joktan, or Arabia Felix.

Hazarmaveth, or Hadramout.

Sheba, in Arabia.

Ophir, or the Nubian coast.
Havilah, part of Arabia.

GENESIS, X. 9.

"He [Nimrod] was a mighty hunter before the Lord wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord."

An imaginary portrait of Nimrod, the Assyrian hero, killing the lion. From the walls of the Palace at Khorsabad, the Resen of Gen. x. 12; in Bonomi's Nineveh.

The sculptor has represented him, not as a man who would fight with sword or spear, but as a giant, or demigod, who has no need of such weapons. The ancient city of Nineveh is now called by its yet more ancient name of Nimroud. The hero was probably named after the city.

Lion-hunting was one of the favourite amusements of the Assyrian kings. It is represented in a variety of ways on the sculptures in the British Museum. On one the lion is brought in a cage to the hunting-ground, and the door of the cage is opened for him to furnish sport to his pursuers; as our own huntsmen start a stag out of a cart, or a fox out of a bag.

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GENESIS, X. 11, 12.

Out of that land went forth Asshur [or the Assyrians], and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city."

Nineveh, from the survey by Felix Jones, including

which four cities are together often spoken of under the one name of Nineveh; as in the Book of Jonah, where it is described as a city of three days' journey. Nimroud was probably the oldest city. By its position we see that it is the Larissa of Xenophon; though that name more closely

resembles Resen. Calah, or Halah, was a hill-fortress. Koiyunjik was the residence of the great kings of Assyria. There was the palace of Sennacherib, and from thence was brought the large body of sculptures now in the British Museum. Mosul, called Mespila by Xenophon, was an open, unfortified town, or suburb.