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have hints of their old home being in the north, and in mountain- 

 ous regions. The Bible places them in the mountains in the north. 

 Thus when the spies return to Moses, and tell what they saw, as we 

 learn from Num., xiii, 29, they say " that the Amalekites dwell in the 

 "land of the south ; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amor- 

 " ites, dwell in the mountain ; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea 

 "and by the coast of Jordan." Captain Conder, in his recent work 

 entitled " Syrian Stone Lore," inclines to the belief that the Hittites 

 may be a branch of the early Turanian stock. He says that they 

 " were certainly not a Semitic race, nor do they appear to have been 

 " closely akin to the old Egyptian stock. * * * * They were, 

 "indeed, the overlords who ruled Semitic tribes, just as the Elam- 

 " ites ruled Semitic tribes in Babylon ; but the Egyptian sculptors 

 "of the fourteenth century B. C., who have given us representations 

 " of the Hittite warriors in their chariots, have carefully distinguished 

 " them by a lighter complexion from their brown Semitic allies. The 

 " general effect of the representation of the Hittites on the sculp- 

 " tures of Karnak bears a striking resemblance to the Tartar type, and 

 " the wearing of boots in place of sandals appears possibly, as Pro- 

 " fessor Sayce has remarked, to point to the northern derivation of 

 "the tribe, which is thought to have come from the Caucasus." The 

 Hittites are generally represented on the monuments as almost hair- 

 less, their pig-tails giving them a Chinese appearance. 



From the country they inhabited, we are led to infer that they 

 may have been closely linked to the ancestors of the modern Geor- 

 gian. The Assyrians and the Egyptians used the term Kheta, in a 

 somewhat loose sense, to designate all the peoples living in Northern 

 Syria, but not to designate any tribe north of the Taurus Chain. The 

 Hittites are found as far south as Hit on the Euphrates, as Tell 

 Hatteh near Kadesh, as Hatta and Kefr Hatta in Philistia, and as 

 Hebron in Palestine. "The Hittites," to use the language of 

 Conder, " may perhaps be considered at one time to have advanced 

 "to the borders of Egypt, though in 1600 B. C. they were already 

 "only found in the north. Thus in the time of Joshua and 

 "Solomon the land of the Hittite is Northern Syria. Mariette Bey 

 " proposed to identify the Hyksos with the Kheta j" and, in case this 

 can be done, an explanation of the noticeable non-Semitic trace on 

 the Hyksos will be given. 



Professor Sayce in his work on the Ancient Empires of the 



