94 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



read* of Canaan, the grandson of Noah, that 

 he "begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth," we 

 seem to have the names of individual men ; 

 but, when it is immediately added that he 

 also "begat the Jebusite, and the Amorite, 

 and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the 

 Arkite, and the Sinite," &c. &c., it is clear that 

 we are dealing not with single generations, but 

 with a condensed abstract of the origin and 

 growth of Tribes. No definite information 

 is given in such abstracts as to the lapse of 

 time. The chronology of changes not specially 

 included in the narrative, can only be gathered 

 from the general character of the events 

 described. And that general character is such 

 as fully to corroborate the evidence Vv'e have 



* Gen. X. 15—18. 



