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denunciation of Noah, who said, “ Cursed be Canaan ; a ser- 
vant of servants shall he be unto his brethren* * ? 
41. Then it was said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Shern,** 
by which we understand that Noah blessed God in the seed 
promised to Abraham, on whom was bestowed the inheritance 
of both the earthly and heavenly Jerusalem, as it has been 
fulfilled in the possession of the former by the Israelites, and 
the free entrance into the latter through the blood of his 
descendant the Saviour of the world. 
42. Of Japheth it was decreed that God would enlarge him, 
that is to say, make him great both in possession and power, 
and that he would “ dwell in the tents of Shern.** There is no 
prophecy in the Bible, to my mind, which has been more 
forcibly, and so truly and wonderfully fulfilled as this ; and I 
only wonder that anyone reading these passages and comparing 
them with what has been taking place for the last 2,500 years, 
after a lapse of forty-three centuries, could ever doubt the in- 
spiration of the Pentateuch ; but the fickle and carnal mind of 
man would rather believe an imaginative argument of a fellow 
man than trust to mere sacred truths. The descendants of 
Japheth, represented by the Romans, Greeks, Medes, and 
Tartars, have been holding under their sway not only the Holy 
Land, but all the country which was formerly governed by 
different descendants of Shern, namely the Assyrians, the 
Arameans, the Chaldeans, and the Arabians ; and even now, 
when the Turk is reviled and detested, not only in Europe but in 
Asia, he occupies the dwellings of Shern, and to reform or dis- 
possess him of this sway requires more than the human brains 
of the greatest statesmen in Christendom can accomplish. 
43. I must now say a few words about the structure of the 
Assyrian buildings, and how I believe the debris accumulated 
over them. I have often been asked by different people about 
this, and even after I tried to explain to them my theory I did 
not feel quite satisfied at the end with the opinion I had formed 
on the subject. The general idea is that the Assyrian palaces 
consisted of one story high without any basement ; but, from 
my personal observations of the different erections, 1 believe 
that most of the Royal edifices consisted of at least two stories. 
Even if we allowed the brick walls above the sculptures to have 
been 10 or 15 feet high and 5 or 6 feet thick, there would not 
be material enough to fill in the space between the walls of 
the large saloons and halls, especially the open courtyards, 
which are sometimes from 100 to 150 feet square, and when 
we consider that in some instances we found the earth that 
covered the ruins was about 10 feet above them, it is more 
