were more in number, and far
more widely extended, than has been imagined. The history of this family
will be the principal part of my inquiry.

CANAAN.

Canaan seems, by the Egyptians and Syrians, to have been pronounced Cnaan:
which was by the Greeks rendered Cnas, and Cna. Thus we are told by
Stephanus Byzantinus, that the antient name of Phenicia was Cna. [Greek:
Chna, houtos he Phoinike ekaleito. to ethnikon Chnaios.] The same is said
by Philo Biblius, from Sanchoniathon. [24][Greek: Chna tou protou
metonomasthentos Phoinikos.] And, in another place, he says, that Isiris,
the same as Osiris, was the brother to Cna. [25][Greek: Isiris--adelphos
Chna]; the purport of which is conformable to the account in the
Scriptures, that the Egyptians were of a collateral line with the people of
Canaan; or, that the father of the Mizraeim and the Canaanites were
brothers.

MIZRAIM.

This person is looked upon as the father of the Egyptians: on which account
one might expect to meet with many memorials concerning him: but his
history is so veiled under allegory and titles, that no great light can be
obtained. It is thought, by many learned men, that the term, Mizraeim, is
properly a plural; and that a people are by it signified, rather than a
person. This people were the Egyptians: and the head of their family is
imagined to have been, in the singular, Misor, or Metzor. It is certain
that Egypt, by Stephanus Byzantinus, is, amongst other names, styled
[Greek: Muara], which, undoubtedly, is a mistake for [Greek: Musara], the
land of Musar, or Mysar. It is, by [26]Eusebius and Suidas, called
Mestraia; by which is meant the land of Metzor, a different rendering of
Mysor. Sanchoniathon alludes to this person under the name of [27][Greek:
Misor], Misor; and joins him with Sydic: both which he makes the sons of
the Shepherds Amunus and Magus. Amunus, I make no doubt, is Amun, or Ham,
the real father of Misor, from whom the Mizraeim are supposed to be
descended. By Magus, probably, is meant Chus, the father of those
worshippers of fire, the Magi: the father, also, of the genuine Scythae, who
were styled Magog. The Canaanites, likewise, were his offspring: and, among
these, none were more distinguished than those of Said, or Sidon; which, I
imagine, is alluded to under the name of Sydic. It must be confessed, that
the author derives it from Sydic, justice: and, to say the truth, he has,
out of antient terms, mixed so many feigned pe