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distance from or contiguity to Shinar, and the migration from 
one to the other may very readily be supposed to have required 
as much time as the Scripture signifies—this apparent propor~ 
tion of the time and distance was another motive that biassed 
the proposal. 
“ Thirdly—Some very judicious inquirers on the same subject, 
dre decidedly of opinion that the ark rested somewhere along this 
tract of mountains towards Tartary cr India; and their not having 
all consented to one spot is no derogation to the main point ; for 
they all propose a site eastward of Shinar, and therefore do not 
deviate from the Mosaic text. Along this vast ridge, to which 
all ascribe the memorable event, we, for the foregoing and other 
reasons, consider Aria to be the mest probable point; and as 
this opinion is not incompatible with that of Hareius, Ortelius, 
Drs. Stukely and Heyliv, Shuckford, Wilson, and other eminent 
authorities, we have, with greater confidence, been induced to. 
propose it. 
“* Fourthly—From not having been able to discover any other 
primitive name of these mountains, it is conceived that Ararat 
ought not to be considered as a term appropriated to any partl- 
cular part, but to have been much more extensively applied than 
has been generally imagined ; and from the many names attached 
to places and things, in the vicinity of Aria, that appear to have 
some affinity to the word Ararat, additional instances in favour- 
of the proposal have also been deduced. 
“ Fifthly—This Persian district includes the central point of 
the three grand divisions of the earth—that is to say, of Europe, 
Asia, and Africa—which, considered as so regarded in the om- 
niscience of Providence, and thereby suited for promoting in 
somewise the great scheme, was also additional weight to the 
reasons for the proposal. 
‘* Sixthly—From its seeming compatible with the incompre- 
hensible wisdom and ceconomy of the Supreme to afford facility 
at the outset to the ‘ overspreading of the earth,’ and as the 
courses of rivers are most free from impediments, and supply one 
of the most essential articles of human subsistence, it is natural 
to suppose that the itinerant corps would take their routes along 
the tracks of currents; and from the multiplicity of these which 
are distributed northward and southward from the central accli- 
vities of Aria, in a manner not to be found in any other region 
of the earth, it was a consideration that powerfully augmented 
the force of the other motives which induced the proposal. 
** Seventhly—Herack, Yerac, or Irac Agemi, signifying the 
country of the mountains, is southward of the Caspian Sea, about 
ancient Hyreania. No part westward of this can be adopted as 
the place where the ark rested, because the Scripture objects to 
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