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resuming' their marine course of life, because wood for rafts 

 and vessels was always scarce or wanting, the tall reeds and 

 lushes suffering none except the palm-tree to flourish. This 

 was the cause, it may be believed, why the Kapthorim, after 

 leaving Kapthor or Cappadocia, wandering onwards by Rhodes, 

 Crete, and Cyprus, till they rested for a period in the Tanitic 

 arm of the Nile, were obliged to migrate by land to Palestine. 

 There were also the Sinim and Phoenicians in the western 

 arm, and Greelc adventurers on the bank near Damietta; 

 others, most likely, were absorbed in the Egyptian | 



I onward to the w S peral of these tribes are, by 



classical authorities, placed in connection with the Hyper- 

 boreans, or rather the Finnic races, a branch of which may 

 have been the Hyksos (or Shepherds), with the more proba- 

 bility, as the earliest Armenian language is known to have 

 contained a great proportion of word- belonging to that stem of 

 nations, and the Armenian people were styled Haikos or Ilaik 

 wearers, which is the same as Hyksos. They are even i 

 to be the Bame as the Cathai, Beni Kous, who may have 

 the Kufa of High Asia opposed to Sesostris, the fair-haired 

 nation of the ancienl Arabian records, and the pr 

 Nesearies of the hills; so early were the invasions from the 

 north-east towards Egypt, and so confused become nations 

 when the ruling tribe and the masses arc of different typical 

 forms. 



Above the Egyptian races, the Nubian, Nuba, or swarthy 



lite people, were fixed at a remote age, though Syncellus 

 and their own traditions represent them to be colonists from 

 the banks of the Indus; and the claim is countenanced by the 

 local names of Kuteh, Gujerat, Cattywar, provinces on the 

 east side of the present delta of the river; and the circum- 

 stance, that the Abyssinian kings were, and still are, styled 



as, while in the most ancient kingdoms of the delta of the 

 Indus or Neel, denominated Patala, the Naga or Serpent was 

 venerated in the capital Nagara, and the people were Nagas 

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