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Tay above Egypt to the fouth. Ezek. xxix. io. A third 
Comprehended the regions of Perils, Chufiftaft, and Sufi- 
ana. Zeph. iii. io. Even Chaldea was efteemed Ethio¬ 
pia ; and Tacitus, lib. 5. c. 2. fpeaking of the Jews, 
whofe anceftors came from Ur in Chaldea, (iiles them 
/.Ethiopian prolem. Beyond Carmania was another region 
of this name. Eufeb. Chron. p.12. Even the Indi 
themfelves were Ethiopians. The Cuthites, ftiled 
yEthiopes, were the original Indi: they gave name to 
the country which- they occupied. Hence Iarchus of 
India, Philoftrati vita Apollon, lib. 3, tells Apollonius, 
on Ai0i&7t£? j/.ev uv.ovv tvluv&u, ysvo; And almofl in 
every place, where their hiftory occurs, the name of 
Indi will be found likewife. Diod. Sic. lib. 1. The 
chief inhabitants upon the Indus were Cufeans. 
The fons of Cufli came into Egypt under the name of 
Auritae and lhepherds, as alfo of Ethiopians: hence 
Egypt alfo inherited that name. (Euftath. Com. in Dio- 
nyf. v. 241.) The Cufliites or Cuthites fettled at Col- 
chus, the Colchis of the Greeks; in conl'equence of 
which it was called Cutaia and Ethiopia. The fons of 
Cufli came, under the titles of Calus and Belus, into 
Syria and Phenicia, where they founded many cities : 
and Strabo informs us, that this country was called 
Ethiopia. The Cadmians came into Euboea, and here 
was an Ethiopium. Strabo, lib. io. Samothrace was 
called Ethiopia. (Hefych.) Lefbos had the name of 
Ethiope and Macaria. Plin. lib. 5. c. 31. The extreme!!: 
fettlement of this people was in Spain, upon the Boetis, 
near Tarteflus and Gades : and Ephorus tells us, that 
colonies of Ethiopians traverfed a great part of Africa; 
fome of which came and fettled near Tarteflus; and 
others got'pofleflion of different parts of the fea-coaft. 
Strabo, lib.i. They lived near the ifland Erythea, 
which they held. Dionyf. Perieg. v. 558.) It is on this 
r.ccount, that we find fome of the fame family on the op- 
pofite coaft of Mauritania. The original Ethiopia was 
the region of Babylonia and Chaldea, where the firft 
kingdom upon earth was formed, and the mod early po¬ 
lice inftituted. Here alfo the firft idolatry began. As 
the Scythae, or Cuthites, were the fame people, no won¬ 
der that they are repreiented as the mod ancient people 
in the world ; even prior to the Egyptians. That the 
Scythae were Cufliites, is very manifeft. What was pro¬ 
perly ftiled Cutha, the Greeks exprefled with a figma 
prefixed: which, however trifling it may appear, has 
been attended with fatal ccnfequences. Whence this 
mode of exprcflion arofe, is uncertain : but it has uni- 
verfally obtained, and has very much confounded the 
hiftory of ancient times, and of this people in particular. 
Epiphanius, adv. Hseres. lib 1 who has tranfmitted to 
its a mod curious epitome of the whole Scythic hiftory, 
fpeaks to the following purport: “ L hofc nations, w hich 
reach fouthward from that part of the w'orld, where the 
two great continents of Europe and Afia incline to each 
other, and are connected, were univerfally ftiled Scythae, 
according to an appellation of long Handing. Thefe 
were of that family, who erected of old the great tower, 
and who built the city Babylon.” From hence we 
learn precisely, that the Scythians were the Culhites or 
CuthianS; and came from Babylonia. They were the 
fame as the t haldaic Ionim under a different name. 
The fame author in another place fays, ly.iUoy.o; wiro rov 
ncnaKXvai/.ov ap/p tcv «rpy</c; from the <ieluge to the 
eredting of the tower (of Babel) Scuthilm prevailed. 
This notation is perhaps carried toe. far back ; but the 
.meaning is plain; and what he alludes to is certainly 
Kcfinrpio? The purport of the paliage teaches, that fr<. m 
the time of the deluge to the confirmation of the tower 
was efteemed the Cuthic age. It was for the mod part 
a period of ufurpation and tyranny under the fons of 
Ctifti, which was in. a great degree put a flop to at the 
difperfion at leaft the intention of keeping mankind to¬ 
gether, and conftituting one great empire, was prevented ; 
VOL. Vt Ho. 290. 
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for this feems to have been the defign of the CuthianS 
and their leader. All the Ethiopic race were great 
archers. Their name wps fometimes exprelll'd Cufliitse ; 
and the ancient name of a bow was cufliet ; which it 
probably obtained front this people, by whom it was in¬ 
vented. There is reafon to think, that by their fkill in 
this weapon they eftablifhed themfelves in many parts 
where they fettled. 
CUSH'A I, a river of North America, which empties 
into Albemarle found, between Chowan and the Roanoke,, 
in North Carolina. 
CUSHEE'NY, a river of Ireland, which runs into the. 
Little Barrow: feven miles eaft-ndrth-eaft of Portarlington. 
CUSH'ENDON BAY, a final! bay of Ireland, on tire 
eaft coaft of the county of Antrim. Lat. 55.7. N. Ion. 
5 53 W. Greenwich 
CUSHI'NET, f. [ coiijfinet, Vv .] A little cufhion. 
CUSH'ING, a tovvnlhip of the American States, ia 
Lincoln county, diftridt of Maine, feparated from War¬ 
ren and Thomafton by St. George’s river. It was incor¬ 
porated in 1789, contains 942 inhabitants, and lies 216 
miles weft by north of Bofton. 
CU'SHION, f. \_kujjcn, Dut. coujfn , Fr J A pillow for 
the feat; aloft pad placed upon a chair.—An eafteru 
king put a judge to death for an iniquitous !entence ; 
and ordered his hide to be fluffed into a cujhion , and. 
placed upon the tribunal, for the fon to fit on. Swift. 
But, ere they fat, officious Baucis lays 
Two cufiions-{\ ufPd with ft raw, the feat to raife. Dry den. 
• “He is befide the Cushion.” —The Latins fay, Extra 
okas fertur. 1 he Greeks, Ext®' t cm sAaiov (pe^erai. The 
French, II s'ecartc de fon f<jet y He is wide of his fubjedt. 
The Latins lay likewile, Aberrare a janua-, to mils the 
.gate. The Germans !ay, Ginen gantzen baurai fchritt 
fehltn ; to be as far from the point as a boar can ftride. 
All thefe proverbial layings are intended as fo many 
ufeful leflbns to thofe, who impudently alfume a fuperior 
knowledge in matters or things, of which, when clofely 
interrogated, they know nothing about. 
CU'SHIONED, adj. Seated on a cufhion; fupported 
by cufhions. — Many, who are cufiioncd upon thrones, 
would have remained in obfeurity. Dijfcrtation on Parties. 
CUSP, f [ citjpis , Lat.] In aftronomy, a term ufed to 
exprefs the points or horns of the moon, or other luminary. 
CUSP, J' in aftrology, the firft point of each of the 
twelve houfes, in a figure or fcheme of the heavens. See 
Astrology, vol ii. 
* CU'SPIDATED, f. In botany, are fuch plants whofe 
leaves are pointed like a fpear. 
CUSPI'DI A, f. in botany. See Gorteria. 
CUSPl'NIAN (John), a phyftcian and hiftorian, born 
at Schweinfurt in Franconia, and flouriftied in the begin¬ 
ning of the lixteenth century. He was efteemed by the 
emperor Maximilian I. who created him his counfellor, 
and employed him in various embaflies to Elungary, Bo¬ 
hemia, and Poland. He was finally made prefident of 
the council of Vienna, in which city he died at an ad¬ 
vanced age in 1529. He wrote in Latin, a Commentary 
on the Roman Confuls and Emperors; a Hiftory of Aul- 
tria and Table of Hungary ; a Relation- of German 
Affairs; and a treatife on the Origin and Religion of 
the Turks, and their tyranny over the Chriftians. 
t.USSAC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Vienne : two leagues and a half.fou.th-weft of 
St. Flour. 
CUS'SF.NS, a river of North America, in Cumberland 
county, Maine, which runs a fouth-eaft courfe to Cafco- 
bay, betweenthe townsof Freeportand North Yarmouth, . 
CUS'SET, a town of France, and principal place of.a 
diftrict, in the department of the Allier, on a final! river, , 
which foon after joins the Allier. It contains abouV 
three thoufand inhabitants ; nine leagues foruh of .Muu- 
lins, and eight fouth-eaft of Montmirauli. 
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