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ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF MEDIA. 
of the first countries peopled after the deluge. The stream of 
mankind, at their descent from Ararat, naturally flowing along 
the valleys which diverge on all sides from the great mountain, 
spread over the lands which fill the vast space between the ap¬ 
proximating point of the Euxine, the Caucasus, and the south¬ 
eastern limb of the Caspian. Consequently, the extensive tracts 
of Azerbijan and Irak Ajem, which composed ancient Media, 
must have been colonized before any other territory south-east 
of Ararat, these lands lying in the way to further emigration in 
that direction. Hence, after the first necessary dividing of the 
families of the earth from their primary house in the plains of 
Ararat, if we trace their progress in the oldest book extant, the 
Bible, we shall find their multitudes of the third generation, 
exactly where we might expect to meet them, winding down 
from the over-populated regions of fertile Media, (and so coming 
from “ the East!”) in a south-western direction towards the 
plains of Shinar. Thither Nimrod led his tribes of the Cuthite 
race, to plant cities independent of their brethren and their 
God, and to be still farther scattered by their rebellion. Media, 
we may understand from the same venerable authority, was oc¬ 
cupied by the generations of Madai, one of the sons of Japhet; 
while Elam, the son of Shem, gave his posterity and name to 
the countries afterwards called Persis and Susiana. Hence, it 
may not unreasonably be believed, that the first cities of the 
post-diluvian world were erected in these primeval seats of the 
immediate descendants of Noah. Babel and Nineveh, are re¬ 
corded as owing their origin to the grandson of Ham ; and why 
may not Tackt-i-Jemsheed have been founded by the son of 
Shem? and Ecbatana by Madai, the son of Japhet? While 
these early settlements of mankind appear to be peaceably pur- 
