The lower part of _Egypt_ being yearly overflowed by the _Nile_, was scarce inhabited before the invention of corn, which made it useful: and the King, who by this invention first peopled it and Reigned over it, perhaps the King of the city _Mesir_ where _Memphis_ was afterwards built, seems to have been worshipped by his subjects after death, in the ox or calf, for this benefaction: for this city stood in the most convenient place to people the lower _Egypt_, and from its being composed of two parts seated on each side of the river _Nile_, might give the name of _Mizraim_ to its founder and people; unless you had rather refer the word to the double people, those above the _Delta_, and those within it: and this I take to be the state of the lower _Egypt_, 'till the Shepherds or _Phœnicians_ who fled from _Joshuah_ conquered it, and being afterwards conquered by the _Ethiopians_, fled into _Afric_ and other places: for there was a tradition that some of them fled into _Afric_; and St. _Austin_ [249] confirms this, by telling us that the common people of _Afric_ being asked who they were, replied _Chanani_, that is, _Canaanites_. _Interrogati rustici nostri_, saith he, _quid sint, Punice respondentes Chanani, corrupta scilicet voce sicut in talibus solet, quid aliud respondent quam Chanaanæi?_ _Procopius_ also [250] tells us of two pillars in the west of _Afric_, with inscriptions signifying that the people were _Canaanites_ who fled from _Joshuah_: and _Eusebius_ [251] tells us, that these _Canaanites_ flying from the sons of _Israel_, built _Tripolis_ in _Afric_; and the _Jerusalem Gemara_, [252] that the _Gergesites_ fled from _Joshua_, going into _Afric_: and _Procopius_ relates their flight in this manner. Επει δε ‛ημας ‛ο της ‛ιστοριας λογος ενταυθ' ηγαγεν. επαναγκες ειπειν ανωθεν, ‛οθεν τε τα Μαυρουσιων εθνη ες Λιβυην ηλθε, και ‛οπως ωικησαντο. Επειδη ‛Εβραιοι εξ Αιγυπτου ανεχωρησαν, και αγχι των Παλαιστινης ‛οριων εγενοντο· Μωσης μεν σοφος ανηρ, ‛ος αυτος της ‛οδου ‛ηγησατο, θνησκει. διαδεχεται δε την ‛ηγεμονιαν Ιησους ‛ο του Ναυη παις· ‛ος ες τε την Παλαιστινην τον λεων τουτον εισηγαγε· και αρετην εν τωι πολεμωι κρεισσω ‛η κατα ανθρωπου φυσιν επιδειξαμενος, την χωραν εσχε· και τα εθνη ‛απαντα καταστρεψαμενος, τας πολεις ευπετως παρεστησατο, ανικητος τε πανταπασιν εδοξεν ειναι. τοτε δε ‛η επιθαλασσια χωρα, εκ Σιδωνος μεχρι των Αιγυπτου ‛οριων, Φοινικη ξυμπασα ωνομαζετο. βασιλευς δε εις το παλαιον εφεστηκει· ‛ωσπερ ‛απασιν ‛ωμολογηται, ‛οι Φοινικων τα αρχαιοτατα ανεγραψαντο. ενταυθ' ωκηντο εθνη πολυανθρωποτατα, Γεργεσαιοι τε και Ιεβουσαιοι, και αλλα αττα ονοματα εχοντα, ‛οις δη αυτα ‛η των ‛Εβραιων ‛ιστορια καλει. ‛ουτος ‛ο λαος επει αμαχον τι χρημα τον επηλυτην στρατηγον ειδον· εξ ηθων των πατριων εξανασταντες, επ' Αιγυπτον ‛ομορου ουσης εχωρησαν. ενθα χωρον ουδενα σφισιν ‛ικανον ενοικησασθαι ‛ευροντες, επει εν Αιγυπτω πολυανθρωπια εκ παλαιου ην· ες Λιβυην μεχρι στηλων των ‛Ηρακλεους εσχον· ενταυθα τε και ες εμε τηι