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The remaining sons of Ham, Mizraim, Put and 

 Canaan, are not mentioned in connection with the 

 old Nimrodic kingdom, and seem to have moved 

 westward at a very early period. They were already 

 ' in the land/ and apparently constituted a consider- 

 able citizen population before the migration of 

 Abraham. 



Mizraim represents the twin populations of the 

 delta and Lower Egypt, and the Tel-el-Amarna 

 tablets inform us that long before the time of Moses 

 Mitzor was the ordinary name of Egypt, while we 

 know that its early population was closely allied in 

 features and language to the Cushites. 



Canaan 1 heads a central line of migration, and 

 Sidon and Cheth are said to have been his leading 

 sons. The first represents the Phoenician maritime 

 power of Northern Syria, the second that great nation 

 known to the Egyptians as Kheta and to the 

 Assyrians as Khatti, whose territory extended from 

 Carchemish on the Euphrates through the plain of 

 Coele-Syria to Hebron in Southern Palestine, and not 

 improbably into the delta. They were a people 

 whose language was allied to that of Cushite Chal- 

 dea, 2 whose features were of a coarser type than those 

 of their more southern confreres, and who, according 

 to the Egyptian annals, were closely allied with the 



1 Canaan with our old historian is the name of a man, but it came 

 to designate first the 'low country' or coast region of Western 

 Palestine, and then the whole of Palestine. 



- Conder and others call it Turanian. 



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