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An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African

PART III
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Hebroeae .-- Amnem, quem vocant _Fut_." Pliny, L.5.c.

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Some of this family settled above AEgypt, near AEthiopia, and were styled Troglodytae.

(phoud ex ou troglodotai).

Syncellus, p.47.Many of them passed inland, and peopled the Mediterranean country." "In process of time the sons of _Chus_ also, (after their expulsion from Egypt) made settlements upon the sea coast of _Africa_, and came into _Mauritania_.

Hence we find traces of them also in the names of places, such as _Churis, Chusares_, upon the coast: and a river _Chusa_, and a city _Cotta_, together with a promontory, _Cotis_, in _Mauritania_, all denominated from _Chus_; who at different times, and by different people, was called _Chus, Cuth, Cosh_, and _Cotis_.


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