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CHAP. XII.]
LIMITS OF CUSH.
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This territory, which was bounded on the north by the Araxes, Cush occupied
or Gihon, and which constituted the Cossea of the Greek and
Latin writers, was the abode of the posterity of Nimrild, up NimrikL
to the time of the Jewish historian, who says of the sons of
Ham, " time has not at all affected the name of Chus ; for the
Ethiopians over whom he reigned are to this day, both by
themselves and by all the men in Asia, called Chusites." 1
The word Ethiopian is derived from aLQw (aitho\ to burn,
and o\js, or o^t?, (opsis) face : a person with a burnt or black,
or very dark face, such as are the Kurds and other mountaineers
of these parts, though they live in a temperate climate.
On the Nahr Malcha, a little way north of Babel are the Ruins of
ruins of the Kush of Abu-l-feda ; 2 a name which seems to be Kush "
quite as ancient as the former city, and from whence and its
neighbourhood the inhabitants were transported by Shalma-
nazar to Samaria. 3
The word Chus remains almost unchanged in Kush, Shus, Names derived
Sus, and Kushasdan, the Land of the Sun, and the Land 0 f fromChus -
the Magi. 4 It is also repeatedly mentioned in close connexion
with the territory lying northward and north-eastward of Baby
lonia. The Jews are to be called from Assyria, from Cush,
from Elam, and from Shinar. 5 Again, Elam and his brother
Ashur were tributaries of Chus, whose descendants occupied
the country of the Hindi, the Paracani, and the Ethiopians, 6
the Asia of Moses Choronensis.
This people were indifferently called by other nations
Cushan, 7 Cuseans, Erythreans, Oritse, &c.: and some of them
passed into Africa under the name of the Hycsos, led by their
enterprising chief Saites, 8 bearing still their original designation
of Ethiopians.
That Asiatic Cush has been rightly placed in the territory Asiatic Cush
adjoining Colchis, seems tolerably clear from some of the old near Colchls -
writers. Hieronymus says, that Andrew, brother of Simon
Peter, preached near the rivers Apsarus and Phasis, where are
1 Josephus, De Bello Jud., lib. I., c. 6.
2 Mr. Rassam's MS. Translation. 3 2 Kings xvii. 24.
4 Vartan's History, by Newman. 5 Isaiah xi. 11.
6 Herodotus, lib. III., c. xciv. 7 Habakkuk iii. 3.
8 Or Salites, the first of the Phoenician shepherd-kings, Manetho.—Ancient
Fragments, by I. P. Cory, pp. 170 and 171.