the family of Cush, was called Cushan, as well as Ethiopia, or the country of the blacks.
The. meaning of the word Ethiope, which is also a Hebrew word, signifies blackness, a name given to the country, on account of the color of its first inhabitants.
Even the word negro, is derived from the Hebrew word Niger, and signifies black. Niger, is a great river of Africa, and was thus originally named, on account of black men having first settled the countries of that river; and hence arose from earliest time the word negro, and applied to the race of Ham, and no other people.
Canaan was the name of another of the sons of Ham. But this word signified a trader or merchant, and seems to have pointed out the pursuits of his progeny, rather than their color. It was from this son that the Phœnicians, Tyrians and Zidonians, with all the tribes of the land of Canaan which was Phœnicia itself, proceeded, who were a trading sea-faring and mercantile race.
There was, however, a place in this country of Canaan, or Palestine, a district that was called Chusi, inhabited no doubt by a colony or family of the race of Cush.
The word Canaan, therefore, appears to have been prophetically given, to that son of Ham, pointing to the pursuits, rather than any ether peculiarity of that branch of Ham's race.
The word Japheth, is a Hebrew word, and was given as a name to one of the sons of Noah, which also had its prophetic meaning, and pointed out the for-
