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Show The jh Booke ofthefirst part illness Cuar.3.§4 p OmargSi14. othertwoare called s, Adyis ( other: reat-as it,hauitig befides thisjthe Rivers of Coss, of Suafias, Lacefine wile) Hirotis,Hifpalisdnd Zavadwsall which make'but one /#dgs, & by it are fwallowed ypavithalltheir Childremand contpattions,which being allincor porated and made Genats- one ftreame,it croffeth athwart Afia, and then at Cambaia viliteth the Ocean Sea. But becaufe Pifoz,which compaffeth Hauilah,as alfo Geben,which watereth Cufb,mutt fome-where be ioyned with thereft in one bodie,orat leat be found to proceede out of the fame Countrie of Eden,out ofwhich the other two headsdoe proceede;outof doubt they cannoteythet the one orthe other,be Gayges, or Nilus : for Nilas rifethin the vrtersioft ofthe South,and runneth Northward into the Adediterran Sea ; andthe others the Mountaine Jmans,or(as ifeth outout orof the Riuer ose - wil haue it)Casca/zs,which ; iuet Ganges tiieth diuides the Northerne Scythia from oa runneth he North to South into the Indian Oceaa.And as for Perath and Hi ckel eee Euphrates and ee )the one ot (below Apamia)lofe their names,andare called Pif-tigris,andthe memorié ofEnph ia tes extinguthed,is,becaufe the beft part of Euphrates running through the channel! of Gehon.finketh into the Lakes ofChaldea not farre from Vr, the Citie of Abrabam, andfall notintirely into the Perfian Sea,as Tigris accompanied with Pifon,doth. This errour that Pifon was Ganges, wasfirftbroched by Jofephus, (whofe ficlds though theybe fertile,yet are they exceeding full ofweedes)and other'men{ who take his authoritie to be fufficieat in matter of defcription, whereupon depended noother important confequence)werenotcuriousin the examination thereof. For Epiphanine, jas! as PHON seretoe sist was ae ees enetake Auguftiorand ortthe ze tranfportedinto Africa; Gehon drawneinto out Hauilah:fo Eaft India,tofind tocompaile Zthiopia. But ifHauilah, whereof mofésfpeaketh inthe defetiption of Paradife, be foundto bea Region, adioyning te Babylon on the one fide, and Cufk them is begottenin Armenia, neere Georgiana ox Iberiz,the others not farre offin the (whichis falfly interpreted Aithiopia)faftenedtoit on theother. fide,wehall not need ned themfelues in one channell,cither with themfelues,or with eithet ofthe other;and men. Nowit was inthe Valley of Shinar,where Cufbthe fonneofHamfirfate downe func Armenia, by the Gorgican Mountaines 3foas Ganges, who onely trauaileth in‘het owne Indiasatid Nilus through ethiopia and Egyptneuerfaw the land of Eilen, or ioy- Gen.dUlr therefore could notat any time from thencebe feparated,or dinided into foure heads or branches,according to Mofes. ; Therefore the Riuet Psfom,whichenricheth Hewélab,is the fare which by ioyningit felfe with Tigris,was thereforecalled P/6-tigris,or Pifo-tigriszof Pifox and Tigris,which Riuer watereth that Hasilah, which Hawilah the Sonne of Cufb gaue fame vito, and not Hauilah ofIndia, fo called of Hawilah the Sonneof Ioc#an, who inhabited withhis brotherOphir in the Eaft.And this Hanilah ofthe Cafbites had alfo Gold,Bdellium,and the Onyxftorie. This Bdellium is a Tree,of the bigneffe of an Oliue, wheteof 4rabit hath great plenty which yeeldeth a certaine Gum{weetto fmell to, but bitter in tafte, called alfo Bdellium.The Hebrewes take the Load-ftone for Bdellium: Zeroaldasaffir- mith,that BAe/a in Hebrewfignifieth Pearle : fodoth Eugubinns « and Hieromecalls it Oleafier : be iv whatit will,a tree bearing Gum of Pearle: Néailab or Sufiana hathplenty of both. Now this Countiie of Sufiana ot Hauilah ftretcheth it felfe toward the North as farreasthe Altars ofMereules, and from thence imbraceth all the Tra& of Land, Southward,as farre as the Per{ian Gulféjon the Eaft fide thereof: from which Eaft fide' hadthe Shebans ( which traded withthe Citie ofTyre according to Ezekiel) their great plenty ofgold; which Straboalfo witneffeth, as was fhewed before. Stench. The Greekes had a conceit,that Pi/os was Danubins - the Rabbises takeit for Nilw HopkdePar, Aben-Bxra ({ayth Hopkinsout of Rabbi Saadia, tranflateth Pifon into Nilus : But Nilws thento worke wonders(that is }to impofevpon menthetranfportation ofriuers, from one end ofthe world tothe other, which (among othervfes ) were made to tran{port with his fonnes Shebab,Hanilah,Sabtah,Raamah, Nimrod, &c.and of Heuilab, the fonne ofCu/o,didthat Region take name,whichPifon compaffeth;andthe land(called Cufh) 2° which Gehonw: tereth,tooke name ofCu/h himfelfe.For as the fonnes of Loctan. Ophir and Hauilab {eated themfelues as neere togetheras they couldin India, fo did ea fons of Ga/b in Shinaror Babylonia,where Nimrod built Babel : for Hawilah ox Chauilah was itt Chu/ea ofCufb sthen Chufa,Sufajand Sufiana. Fromthis Hauilah vntothe Defarts of Sur,didthe Ifraelites and Amalekites pofleffe all the interiacent Countries: for Se#/ {mote the Amalekites from Hauilahto Sur: 1, SAMA $70 which Sur,the Chaldxan Paraphraft conuerteth Hagra, and'Hagra bordereth the red Sea. But this was not meant from Sur vpon the RedSea, to Hauilah in the Eaft India: for Sanl was nofuchtrauailer or Conquerour, and therefore Hauilah muft be found neerer home,wherethefonnes of//mae/inhabited,and which counirie Sau/ wafted: for 2 Amslee and the Amalekites poffeft that necke of Countric, betweene the Perfian a,and the Red Sea ; Hauilah being the extreme ofthe one towards the Eaft, and Sur of the other, towards Egypt and the Weft, leauing that great body of Arabia felix togvards the ith.and they {preadthemfelues with the Midianites and Edumzans, from the Eaft part,or backefide of the Holie Land, to the bankes ofEuphrates, ‘comprifing the beft.part of Arabia Petras and Deéferta, set findeth the fame impoffibility that Ganges doth:and Danubinus hath the Sea ofHeHe/pant Of the Riuer Gehon andthe LandofCufb , and of the il tranflating ofthe czshiopia wilah ox Sufiana,dothto this day retaine fomefigne ofthis name ; for where it and 7* for Cufh,2 CHR ON.21.16. gris embraceth eachother wnderthe Citic of Apamia, there doe they agree of a ioyat and compounded name,and are called Pifé-tigris. Andit is ftrange ynto me,that from ene 34 forts, Si : Ov, as Hauil ah in the Eaft India drew Pifon fo farreout ofhis way thither, {0 fo great antiquitie there fhould be found remaining any refembling found ofthe fit ae for Babylon it felfe, which dwelleth fo neere thefe Riuers, is by fome writets Peh.cefmes, kcowne by thename of Bawdas,as,by Poftellus, by Caftaldus, of Balduch: by Berins, of : se Bagdad; and of Boughedor, by Andrew Thenet sand yetall thofe that haue iately {ent Afiataba, -itycall it Bagdet. Tothis Riuer of Pifow; Ptolomie indeede with many others giue the nam¢c of Bafilius or Regius,and Geben they terme Atshar-/ares and Marfiasand Baar[ares Plindibisos4, SO is Euphratesncercthe Spring and Fountaine,bySéraboand Plinie called Pixirates: by Janins Puckperab,out of the Hebrew(that is) The profufion,or comming forth of Eapbrates : whereit breaketh through the Mountaine Taurus it takes the name of Om ra.Platarch callsit Atedus and Zaranda:'the Hebrewes Parath, ( faith Ar. Atontanas:) i Paguinus, Perath: Jofephus, Phorah , Eufebias, Zozimas : Ammianus, Chalymicus: Gi [fay did Cuth(being by the Seue ney etrantaree Ziiopia wor ¢ Gehon into A- eee tat x pr peingtaken fot i ad by Unie st ke a rho tite cee followed, Gehon ¢ ofequently was efte emed for Nilus. But Aithiopians are,as blackeor or a uth much as bs ratface »whofe proper Countric s called Chebaides,lyeth tothe Southward See more of y pt. snd although the: Be win iny other Regions of Athi ypians, and farre' n in Africa,ye hofe of T PeNSnS Tere thofe to often remembred in the Egyptian "" SRDS | ; é yualifie im this a $4. "ar : , There are (faith he)ewo Aithiopias,the Eaft,andthe Weft : and manner; f Homer. Now becaufe thereis no colour to make will make Chuth and the land of the Chufites(which f Arabia the Happy, with the Region of Madian ) to bee tha: butnowCommonly it iscalled Frat. ‘ The fame confufion ofnames hath Tigris, as Diglito, and Diglath, Seilax, and Sw dase: of the Hebrewes it wascalled Hiddekel : now ofthe inhabitants Tepi/ ore they had manytimes their Kings of Egypt: all which Nation feu ins very Neere, or Chic directly vnderthes quinocial line, which is very fag 9 trom that Jand inhabited by the C! s;who are neither black of colour, ‘norin any (fislanus and Colinutins terme it,Cobar: which Exechiel calleth Chebar ~ but this is but # branch of Eaphrates. The 4/prians knowitbythename ofArmalcbar or Naber Ma But Mereer ypon Genefis conceiuethrightly ofthefe Riuers: for Spapbratch and Tig? ; :: Ache (laithe) ftreame into foure branches,two ofwhich keepethe thcis ancient names,anei © the i ‘SICH. andall Aja the leffe,betweene it and Tigris. Now Pi/ox, which runneth through Ht saa ofitieLaiftonic ofthe World, Pifon and Gehon. Thereafon, why thefe two rivers ioyned in one ow if ir be ; granted,that tot Chufha lhe Land hel on ; : A. oe tf pte and of the Chufire eee Surto BONG SaTPUS -- [saan ab Hawilah Uff, Sur, que refpicie Or - vEzytum ue af |
