“The sons of Phut settled in Mauritania, where was a country called Phutia, and a river of the like denomination.  Mauritaniae Fluvius usque ad praesens Tempus Phut dicitur, omnisq; circa eum Regio Phutensis.  Hieron.  Tradit.  Hebroeae.—­Amnem, quem vocant Fut.”  Pliny, L. 5. c. 1.  Some of this family settled above AEgypt, near AEthiopia, and were styled Troglodytae. (phoud ex ou troglodotai).  Syncellus, p. 47.  Many of them passed inland, and peopled the Mediterranean country.”

“In process of time the sons of Chus also, (after their expulsion from Egypt) made settlements upon the sea coast of Africa, and came into Mauritania.  Hence we find traces of them also in the names of places, such as Churis, Chusares, upon the coast:  and a river Chusa, and a city Cotta, together with a promontory, Cotis, in Mauritania, all denominated from Chus; who at different times, and by different people, was called Chus, Cuth, Cosh, and Cotis.  The river Cusa is mentioned by Pliny, Lib. 5. c. 1. and by Ptolomy.”

“Many ages after these settlements, there was another eruption of the Cushites into these parts, under the name of Saracens and Moors, who over-ran Africa, to the very extremity of Mount Atlas.  They passed over and conquered Spain to the north, and they extended themselves southward, as I said in my treatise, to the rivers Senegal and Gambia, and as low as the Gold Coast.  I mentioned this, because I do not think that they proceeded much farther:  most of the nations to the south being, as I imagine, of the race of Phut.  The very country upon the river Gambia on one side, is at this day called Phuta, of which Bluet, in his history of Juba Ben Solomon, gives an account.”]

[Footnote 077:  When America was first discovered, it was thought by some, that the scripture account of the creation was false, and that there were different species of men, because they could never suppose that people, in so rude a state as the Americans, could have transported themselves to that continent from any parts of the known world.  This opinion however was refuted by the celebrated Captain Cooke, who shewed that the traject between the continents of Asia and America, was as short as some, which people in as rude a state have been actually known to pass.  This affords an excellent caution against an ill-judged and hasty censure of the divine writings, because every difficulty which may be started, cannot be instantly cleared up.]

[Footnote 078:  The divine writings, which assert that all men were derived from the same stock, shew also, in the same instance of Cush, (Footnote 075), that some of them had changed their original complexion.]

[Footnote 079:  The following are the grand colours discernible in mankind, between which there are many shades;