Mediterranean. All these nations, however, in the earliest time, and much more in succeeding ages, especially in the regions of Europe, were mingled by amalgamation, as was right and natural, being all the descendants of the same ancestor, Japheth, a son of Noah.
One of their great cities, that is of the Thracians, was the famous Troy, which, in the time of David, B.C. 1100, was in its glory, and stood inland from the Mediterranean about twelve miles north, on a rising ground, and in that age was the capital of their country. The latitude of ancient Troy, or Troja, was 40° north, and longitude 16°, more than a thousand miles east of Turkey, on the promontory of Asia Minor near where Tyre was afterward built. Here it was that Dardanus, one of the immedite descendants of Tiras, the seventh son of Japheth, the grand-son of Noah, founded the city of Troy, which at first was called Dardania, as Dardanus was its first king. Afterward it was called Troja, or Troy, from Tros, the grand-son of Dardanus. After this it was called Ilium, from Ilus, the son of Tros.
This region was among the earliest settlements of the sons of Japheth, and especially of that branch who were the ancestors of the ancient Greeks, who had migrated westward from the sources of the Euphrates, in the region of the Black Sea, where the ark rested, quite to the northern coast of the Mediterranean in the country of Italy, so called from the word Ilium, the name of ancient Troy. From this branch of the house of Japheth, by the lineage of Tiras, descended also the Latins, the progenitors
