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ments of Eoypt, Mr. Titcomb has recognized in the people depicted under 
the name Khita, the Hittites, or the sons of Heth or Cheth. If my memory 
serves me, the name Khitais by some pronounced Sh-ta, and the people ot 
that name are, I think, identified by Mr. Osburn, in his work on Egypt, with 
the people of Sheth ; and these are made out by him to be the Moabites and 
Ammonites. The particulars which he states respecting this people are very 
remarkable. They appear on the monuments as not properly Canaam es, 
yet in many particulars closely resembling them. Like the Canaamtes they 
had frequent wars with Egypt. Their .country was not far from the Dead 
Sea, and apparently between Naharaim and the Hittites. They seem to 
have consisted of two confederate races, and there were in their country two 
places or cities known by the name of Rabbah. All these and several other 
particulars seem to mark them, then, as the Moabites and Ammoni.es, e 
descendants of Lot. This is confirmed also by a remarkable coincidence, 
which involves also another striking identification. The Hyksos of Manetno 
have been supposed to be the same as the Shos of the monumental pictures ; 
and with these Shos as with the Egyptians, the Sh-ta or Sh-tim are represented 
as warring. Moses informs us that the Rephaim, who had the name also ot 
Zuzim, were driven out of their possession by the children of Lot. Mr. 
Osburn considers that these Sh-ta are intended in Numbers xxiv. 17, where 
Balaam says “ There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise 
out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab and destroy all the children 
of Sheth.” “ There is a parallelism of expression here which tends to c °nhrm 
this view— Jacob and Israel— Moab and the Sh-ta, or the Ammonites.” I hao 
some years ago the privilege of corresponding with Mr. Birch, of the British 
Museum, on this subject. To his remark, that while there was much m t e 
many points of coincidence adduced by Mr. Osburn, it was dangerous to rest 
the interpretation of a passage on a name (Sheth) occurring only once m 
Scripture, I replied, that in its plural form (Shittim) it occurs and m con- 
nection with Moab, several times. I could have wished that Mr. Titcomb au 
adduced the testimony to the Deluge which is found m the constellations. 
Faber, in his Horn Mosaic ce, makes great use of it. He points out die 
various aquatic animals, and water streaming in almost every direction. M e 
have a ship, the Argo ; we have a dove, a raven, a serpent, and a giant ^ A1 
this, indeed, the Greeks have claimed and mixed up with their fables. Bu , the 
us to conclude, that in their allusions to this period the 
giving their version of the events that occurred from Adam to Noah. Un 
Sese g two quotations, Dr. Legge remarks that ^ £ 
traces of that “rabbinical superstition, and °. f Ejection to 
tolerant ignorance of their churches,” with which , Bunsen ™ 
charge these two distinguished missionaries. But, he £ dds ’ 1 ^ bv Rled 
in them about the deluge of Yaon is misleading. The 
to suppose that it occurs m Chinese history as caused by t ® ° s} • 
wickedness of preceding times- a judgment from Heaven But the^ftoo^ 
entirely silent on this point. Not a word is said as to -S 
punishment of the sins of either ruler or people. 
