Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: will be faid of them, when we come to fpeak of their language, and other particular matters; let us now fee what became of the brothers of Gomer, Magog, Mejhech and Tubal-y whom we fhall fhew to be the fathers of the Scy thiansy who, together with the defcendants of Comer, will appear in the fequel to have been called, in general the Pelafgians before they went under the name of Celts Scythians andc. C H A P. 7%e progrefs / /Magogians, or offspring of Magog, ?/ andV brothers, Mefhech W Tubal., T is to be obferved, that authors have brought? i )J( great confufion into the hiftories of the two- brothers, Comer and’ Magog, and their defcen- dants, in their feveral tranfaandions and migrations, through the long tracts of country, into which their refpeandive colonies were forced to- pafs; which might have been eafily avoided, if they had followed them as a difiinft people from each other, as the Scriptures do, during the firft’ ares of the world after the flood for feveral centuries. Then their further progrefles would have been eafily difcerned, and their often mixing with each other in various countries of Europe, between the Northern and- Southern parts, would be well underftood: for as the Go- tneriansmerians were, in general, more happy in their climates, and every other natural advantage, than the iflue of Magog; fo it is moft certain, that the Scythians, whofe dwellings were altogether north, and north-weft, fent their overflowing offsprings fbuthward, from time to time, from every part of the northern quarters, as Ezekiel has it, to which they were driven by one another, or voluntarily took poffeflion of, according to their feveral neceflities. If we confider who thefe Scythians were, and from whom defcended, we fhall be the more clear in our intellige…
