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Another son of Joktan founded the kingdom of Hejaz. 

 Whether Joktan first settled in the district known as 

 Kahtan, and afterwards founded the kingdom of Yemen, 

 or whether the kingdoms of Yemen and Hejaz were first 

 estabhshed, and his descendants afterwards spread them- 

 selves over Kahtan, is not of much consequence ; but that 

 such was their territory, and identical with that as de- 

 scribed from Mesha to Sephar, a mount of the East, 

 there can be but little doubt. In this country, then, the 

 horse was established not later than about one hundred 

 years after the Deluge ; it may have been simultaneously 

 with other families, w'ho might have taken horses with 

 them. Here only the horse would appear to have been 

 kept in a pure and unmixed state, and to have been pre- 

 served from degeneration, as, after a lapse of four thousand 

 years, we find him still in the purest and noblest form, 

 unchanged and unchanging, in pristine beauty, and in the 

 hands of a people the most ancient and least affected by 

 the outward world ; if indeed he did not find his way there 

 immediately after the exodus from the Ark, which is by 

 no means improbable, and which will now be considered. 



Although there are reasons for believing that the horse 

 was distributed over many parts of the world before the 

 Deluge, it is only consistent to believe that the most 

 perfect specimens of all things living were taken into the 

 Ark. Where this was built cannot be stated ; but we 

 know that when the waters subsided it rested upon the 

 mountains of Ararat, which, however, is no evidence 

 that it was constructed there — all probability would point 

 to a less elevated locality. The wisdom of the exit 



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