10 20 C.Paimus 10 Equator 2. Tred Havilah Sabtah Jamah Tatar M Mon by the Descend Mago Sea of Ochotsk inese Tatary OSSENSIONS OF SHEM AND IS DESCENDANT sra E LA M PCPhTERN ETHIOTTANS Sheleph Almodad SUL Sheba Dedan- Jobab Hador Abimael Mesha Dah Obal Hazamaveth Abyssinia ETHIOPIANS Seba Thibet Arabian Sea Guardafiy ASSYRIA dekel Euphrates R. CUSH Garden Para dis E ET H HAVILAH Land Gihon Siam Malaya Sumatra Caroline 20 10 of Nod Enoch Note. AMERICA most probably was peopled from Siberia. The distance between the two continents in 65.N.Latitude does not exceed 20 miles, in a lower latitude a chain of Islands reaches almost from one Coast to the other. The inhabitants of the op -posite coast resemble one another in their features, complexion. manners habits and customs. Their language indeed is different but we are not sufficiently acquainted with this to say whether the rai -cals of the language spoken in that part of America may not have a near alinity with those of the Asiatic languages. The result is that different families or tribes or wandering Tatars probably migrated across Bherings Strait and gave a beginning to popula tion in the American Continent. 10 20 THE ANTIQUITIES OF FREE-MASONRY; COMPRISING ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FIVE GRAND PERIODS OF MASONRY, FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE DEDICATION OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. BY GEORGE OLIVER, VICAR OF CLEE IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN; P. G. CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD KENSINGTON. Αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ ἁγγελία, ἣν ἀκούσατε απ' αρχῆς, ἵνα αγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους. LONDON: G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA LANE. This volume is laid before the Public, in the present extension and increasing popularity of Free-Masonry, with a view of recommending it as an auxiliary to Religion. The magnitude of our Fraternity, and the importance attached to the proceedings of the Grand Lodge, as a dignified assembly, with His Most Gracious Majesty and our Royal Brethren at its head, make it essentially necessary that Masonry be received in its true and genuine acceptation; as a Society founded on the basis of Religion, which cultivates and enforces the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, and the moral duties emanating from them, like rays of light from the meridian sun. If this attempt meet the approbation of my Brethren, I shall probably complete the undertaking at some future time, by laying before them a View of the Two Additional Periods of Masonry, ending with the Advent of Jesus Christ; in which the Science, or its substitute, will be investigated, in all the various forms which it assumed, in every nation and amongst every people of the ancient world. G. O. Great Grimsby, Feb. 17, 1823. |