who will not be satisfied with this mode of investigation. On this account, we deem it necessary to examine the matter in another light, which is to show that there was such a race, and such a people, as negroes, actually known as such too near the time of Noah to admit of the operation of climate to that effect. But if we allow that the climate did actually so operate upon the primitive people, it will amount to a great wonder why it did not operate on all alike in the same place and country; and thus there would have been in the world, during the age nearest to Noah, and in his own time about the ark, nothing but a negro population, himself, his wife, Japheth and his son's wives, among the number. King David, in the 105th Psalm, says that Egypt was the land of Ham. This was said more than 1000 years B.C. David was not ignorant that Mezarim, the son of Ham, settled Egypt, nor was he ignorant of their color or character, as he knew that Ham was called Ham because he was black, the Hebrew being his vernacular tongue.
In 1st Chron. iv, 40, there is an account of a people, called the people of Ham, who were then living in Canaan, at a place called Gedor. To this place a warlike company of one of the tribes of the Jews went and cut the people off, because, as the text reads, they found in that place "fat pasture and good, and the land was wide and quiet and peaceable, for they of Ham had dwelt there of old." From this peculiar phraseology, for they of Ham having dwelt there of old, we see at once that the meaning is, they had dwelt there from the beginning, or that they
