130 ' Notices respecting New Books. 
tempted to examine that part of his work ; the result of whieh 
examination I here send you; and if you consider it, as T do, of 
some importance to art, | doubt not of your admitting it to a 
place in your valuable publication. 
I am, sir, yours, &c. 
Liverpool, Aug. 16, 1817. Tuomas HARGREAVES. 
XXII. Notices respecting New Books. 
An Inquiry into the progressive Colonization of the Earth, and 
the Origin of Nations ; illustrated ly a Map of the Geo- 
. graphy of Ecclesiastical and Atcient Civil History. By 
T. Hemine, of Magdalen Hall, Oxon. 
[Concluded from p. 72.] 
ma 
5 nq HE progress which we have made already assures us that 
there are mountains so situated as Moses hath pointed out to us 
—that these mountains appear to join the popular Ararat of 
Armenia, or the Gordian mountains—that there are traditionary 
reports of the ark having lodged upon the mountains of Ariana, 
which are a part of the same tract—that there are, about those 
paits, names which appear to ‘have generated from Ararat, 
Gordus, and Cardu—all which considerations, though they have 
a tendency to confirm the declaration of Moses, would be very 
much too flimsy and insufficient, without some additional strength. 
‘“* There are some evidences of the early population of these 
parts, which may be mentioned as correlative arguments in fa- 
vour of the general question. Megasthenes relates, that the old 
inhabitants of India were divided into 122 nations, all originally 
descended from the sons of Noah, before their journey to the 
valley of Shinar. 
** Nearly 2009 years before the Christian era, Semiramis in- 
vaded these eastern settlements with an army of above 4,000,000, 
if Ctesias and Diodorus do not exaggerate (though we can hardly 
suppose they do not). Staurobates, the Indian general who 
we are told met this enormous force, had, they say, an army 
equally numerous, and obtained a complete victory over Semi- 
ramis, who was slain in the fight. Deduct whatever may be 
necessary to reduce these armies to credible numbers, and then 
the pepulation of each of these adjacent countries ‘must. have 
been, beyond a doubt, exceedingly great—probably, and almost 
certainly, greater, at this early period, than any other contem- 
porary nations of the whole earth. " 
** It is probable, that had Armenia been the point of disem- 
barkation, the adventurers would have reached Shinar in fo 
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