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PART I.

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE NATION BY HAICUS, AND THE GO-
VERNMENT OF IT BY MEMBERS OF HIS FA-
MILY; THE WHOLE EMBRACING A PERIOD OF 1779 YEARS.

CHAPTER I.

The Foundation of the Armenian Monarchy
by Haicus.

Year of the creation of the world according to the Jews 1757; according to the Septuagint 2663. Haicus the son of Torgomah, on the dis-
persion of the descendants of Noah, in search of new places of habitation, took up his resi-
dence in the country of Senaar in Mesopo-
tamia, together with his sons and daughters and their families. At this epoch Haicus was, according to the Jewish computation, 30 years of age; but by that of the Septuagint, 130; his great progenitor Noah was still in existence.

Here he lived for a long period, witnessing the