about fifty years after his leaving the country of the ark, with his family, they built the tower. But as soon as that undertaking was frustrated by the Divine power, in the confusion of their language, they immediately spread out in all directions: some going westward to the unknown region of the country called, afterward, Canaan Phœnicia; some southward, along the Persian Gulf, in Arabia, and the Red Sea, as well as still further south into Egypt, while some went south-east, along the Indian Ocean, toward the country now known as Hindostan; and others remained, no doubt, in the same country, along the Euphrates, quite down to the sea. Here they had to begin anew in all their respective regions.
But during all this time, the children of Shem and Japheth, with the patriarchs born soon after the flood, were going forward with their pursuits, and actually built the great cities of Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen, Genesis x, 11, 12, even before the time of the building of the tower of Babel by the negroes, as the children of Shem and Japheth had nothing to do with that exploit.
The numbers and the names of some of the patriarchs, born prior to the dispersion of the blacks from the project of the tower, are as follows: Arphaxad, Salah, Eber, and Peleg, besides four other sons of Shem, younger than Arphaxad, whose names were Elam, Ashur, Lud, and Amram; who were each, and all of them, the fathers of vast multitudes, over whom the mighty and princely Melchisedek, or Shem, the son of Noah, reigned as a priest. In this man were concentrated, by the providence and appoint-
