None more famous in _Grecian_ history than _Cadmus_, who brought them the use of those letters that convey’d their history to us, and preserv’d the little knowledge we can chiefly have of profane antiquity. He was son of _Agenor_, by which word the _Greeks_ chose to pronounce the difficult one of _Canaan_. _Alexander Polyhistor_ cites out of _Eupolemus_; “from _Saturn_ (who is _Cham_) came _Belus_ and _Canaan_, and _Canaan_ begat the father of the _Phœnicians_, or _Phœnix_. _Eusebius, pr. ev._ 9 has it too. Again, _Eusebius, pr. ev._ 1. quotes from _Sanchoniathon_, _Cna_, (_Canaan_,) who was styled among the _Phœnicians_ ΧΗΝΑ.” So in _Stephanas_ of _Byzantium_, _Phœnicia_ is called ΧΗΝΑ, and the _Phœnicians_ ΧΗΝΑΙ, which is _Canaanites_. ΧΗΝΑ, _Cna_, is _Agenor_. _Cadmus_ lived in the time of, or very little after _Hercules_. Tho’ the _Parian_ marble is an invaluable monument, yet ’tis not an infallible one. If the learned _Bentley_ finds it erring about _Stesichorus_, we must not depend on its _æra_ of _Cadmus_, who lived a thousand years before that stone was made. Nor is the authority of _Eusebius_’s chronology in this particular, greater. _Bochart_ holds him older than the builder of _Tyre_; _there_ perhaps he heightens his date a little too much. To have a proper notion of the history of this great man, bishop _Cumberland_ shews us, that the _Horites_ or _Hivites_, sons of _Canaan_, i. e. the colony or people of _Cadmus_ son of _Agenor_, or _Canaan_, went out of the land of _Canaan_ about the same time that _Misraim_ or _Osiris_, son of _Cham_, went to plant _Egypt_. They went likewise into _Egypt_. They lived quietly there for some time, but war arising between the _Misraimites_ and the pastors, they retir’d back again, probably a little before the expulsion of the pastors. Some went to the north of _Canaan_, about mount _Hermon_ under _Libanus_; some remain’d in the more southern parts, more particularly call’d _Horites_, or _Avim_, or _Hivites_. In _Gen._ xv. 18. when God made his great covenant with _Abraham_, he tells him, he will give him the land of the _Kenites_, and _Kenizzites_, and _Kadmonites_, and _Hittites_, and _Perizzites_, and _Rephaims_, _Amorites_, &c. By _Kadmonites_ he means the people of _Cadmus_ son of _Canaan_. But afterward, in all those places where these nations are recited, they are called _Hivites_; _Cadmus_ was likewise call’d _Hyas_, _Hivæus_: _Hyas_ or _Cadmus_, one or both, being honorary names, or names of consecration, as was the mode of that time. The same is to be said of _Melchizedec_, _Abimelech_, _Pharaoh_, and many more. About this time there was likewise _Hyas_ a son of _Atlas_.