became rulers over provinces. Three several authors record that this race, after they assumed power and were acting as rulers, were under the supreme control of Adam, by whom they were kept in subjection. One author says "that when the death of Adam was near, he commanded his son Seth, to attend him with his brethren and children and their respective wives; to whom he gave charge that they should dwell in the holy mountain; that they should not return therefrom and mix with the race of Cain; and appointed Seth his successor." Others inform us, that "immediately on the death of Adam, Seth being wearied with the wickedness of the family of Cain, his neighbours, and fearing, now Adam was dead, that they should commit yet more public and open acts of hostilities, retired from the place where they had resided during the life of Adam, far from the family of cursed Cain." Again, "Seth took his eldest son Enos, and Cainan the son of Enos, and Mahalaleel the son of Cainan, and their wives, and brought them up unto that high mountain on which Adam was buried; and Cain and all his posterity lived beneath in the valley, where Abel was killed; and so they took possession of those countries which were forsaken by Seth." This account is given by Rabbi Gidalier, Elmachinus, and Eutychius; who adds, "upon this, Seth was made the ruler and governor of all

those who went with him :" Evidently admitting, that Cain became sovereign of the world, on the death of Adam, and took possession of those countries, which had been previously under the supreme rule of the first patriarch, where the regal authority had been held. So it is said by the Hindus, that the return of the race of Atri, was towards the middle of the first Calpa, and that, when the first prince of that race succeeded to regal power, he obliged Mahadeva the son of the firstcreated to retire from the city of Casi, or the splendid, and to reside on the Mandara hill, or holy mount. With this body of evidence before us, we must either reject the Hebrew, or admit the Hindu and Chaldean account of the antediluvian world. For this coincidence of dates may be considered as mathematical demonstration. The three periods may be divided as follows: The undisturbed rule of the Sun before the return of Atri; from thence to the death of the first-created; and the rule of the race of Atri, from that period to the deluge.

Taking those numbers in the prophetic years

of the Hindus and Zapo of the Chaldeans, they would stand as follows:

Hebrew 420 + 511 + 725 = 1656

Hindu 426 + 516 + 738=1680 { Prophetic

years.

Chaldean 416+ 524+740=1680 168 Zapor.

The foregoing table strengthens the hypothesis, relative to the seven prophetic days, or 1680 prophetic years, from the creation, being the epoch predicted for the general deluge. Nothing can be more at variance with truth, than the arguments brought forward by those, who profess to prove, that oriental nations have no certain knowledge relative to the epoch when the deluge commenced. If these nations profess ignorance or mystery on the subject, it is with a view to deceive; not that they are deceived. They do not chuse to acknowledge, that this great calamity happened at so

recent a period. First, compared with their protracted numbers, 3000 years is as nothing; and, next, as they trace their genealogy back to that year, the stating the deluge in plain figures would be acknowledging the destruction of their immediate ancestors. Yet the Chinese, Egyptians, and Chaldeans, equally with the Hebrews and Hindus, perfectly well know that the year of the flood was the year of the world 1656, or 1680 prophetic years from the creation. One nation writes "seven days;" another" 168 Zapo, or 604800 years;" while some authors, rejecting the fractions write, "after sixty myriads of years (days) were completely ended;" others, "after 3888756 years;" others, "when 32670000 years were passed." And there are some, who consider 240 years as a day; but this alludes to the great prophetic day. These numbers, reduced, all denote the same year of the world, or A. M. 1656. The first, or seven days, is found by multiplying the Matires of a day of 24 hours, by the number of prophetic days, and reducing them by the days in a prophetic year. The quotient is 1680. For 864000 × 7÷360=1680.

The second 168 Zapo, or 604800 years, is the same number, found by a different calculation. The Σαροι denoting ten years, 168 Σαροι are equal to 1680 years; and 604800 are the number of days in those years. For 604800360 1680.

The third, 3888756, is found, by adding the sum of the three first ages to that portion of the fourth, which is past. A. M. 1656 answers to the year of the Cali age 756: the aggregate of the three first ages amounts to 3888000. For 1728000 +1296000+864000=3888000; and 3888000+

756

3888756. As the sum of the three first ages, or 3888000 denotes 900 years, so 900 + 756=1656; and A. M. 1656 is the same date as that of 1680 prophetic years.

The fourth, 3267000, denotes the year of the Cali age, when the deluge happened. For 3267000 is to 756, as 3888000 is to 900: and 900+756= 1656.

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The prophetic great day of 240 years is nothing more than a variety of the first calculation. For 240 x 360 86400. Wherefore, 240 multiplied by 7, equally gives 1680 gives 1680 years: and accordingly, an hundred and twenty years sometimes denote 840 years, and sometimes seven days. Because 840-120=7.

From the foregoing we may venture to pronounce, that the several nations had a perfect knowledge of the epoch assigned by the Hebrews for the general deluge. But they go further. They tell us the dynasties that ended at that epoch, and those that commenced the following year. The Hindus, in general terms, inform us,