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ANCIENT LIMITS OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.
It would appear from hence, that the limits of the geographical knowledge of the Egyptians, at the time of the Exodus, extended to Mesopotamia and Syria in the east and north-east, and to Lud and Javan, by which we are most probably to understand the islands of Cyprus and Crete, to the north.
It is submitted that these geographical indications are by no means destitute of value and importance, as illustrative of the scripture account of the progenitors of mankind, and their first dispersion over the countries adjacent to the plains of Shinar.
