=6. The simple narration= as it occurs in Genesis is so free from the irrelevant and unnecessary additions of the Chaldæan account as to show that the Biblical account is a record of true history. As the Chaldæan account is dated long before Abram left Chaldæa, and hence long before the birth of Moses, it could never have been derived from Scripture, and proves that a tradition of such an event as that of the Flood must have existed very early in the history of the race. PERIOD II. THE PATRIARCHAL ERA AFTER THE FLOOD TO THE DEATH OF JACOB. CHAPTER I. THE TWO ARARATS. THE SONS OF JAPHETH. =1.= Although =the tradition of the Flood= seems to have reached to almost every nation, it has been referred locally to some part of Western Asia, and particularly to that part known as Armenia. The Scriptures tell us that the ark rested upon “=the mountains of Ararat=,” Gen. 8:4, not upon any particular mountain called Ararat, as it has been assumed. =2.= The word Ararat is found in the Assyrian inscriptions for Armenia.[21] A mountain 500 miles north of Babylon is called Mt. Ararat by travellers, and seems first to have been announced as the “Mt. Ararat” in A. D. 1250, as Bochart says. =The other claimant= is 50 miles north of Nineveh and is called _Mt. Kudur_, the meaning being “the great ship.”[22] This view is supported by older historians, such as Berosus and others. The Mt. Ararat of present travellers is a solitary double peak, called _Mt. Massis_ by the Armenians, which rises 17,500 feet above the sea. THE DISTRIBUTION OF RACES. =3.= The tenth chapter of Genesis is considered one of the most remarkable chapters because of the aid it affords in tracing =the early emigrations= and distributions of the race. In this chapter the descendants of the three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, are given. The descendants of Shem are known among scholars as Shemites or Semites, as those of Ham are known as Hamites. Although Shem is named first in order, Japheth is called the elder (ver. 21), and the genealogy begins with him. THE SONS OF JAPHETH: THEIR MORE RECENT NAMES. =4.= (a) =Gomer.= These were the Cimmerians of antiquity, the Cimbri of Roman times, and the Cymry or Celts still existing. Their ancient country was north of the Black Sea, including the Crimea and the shores of the Sea of Azov. The name Crimea is a corruption of the ancient name. It is to this north land Ezekiel refers in chap. 38:2, 6. A part of them went southward to Asia Minor when driven out by the Scythians, and some emigrated to the west of Europe and to Britain. The Welsh call themselves Cymry. “The SONS OF GOMER” were “ASHKENAZ, RIPHATH, and TOGARMAH.”