And first, To manifest the same neer those parts of the earth where the Ark is presumed to have rested, we have the relation of holy Scripture accounting the genealogy of _Japhet_, _Cham_ and _Sem_, and in this last, four descents unto the division of the earth in the days of _Peleg_, which time although it were not upon common compute much above an hundred years, yet were men at this time mightily increased. Nor can we well conceive it otherwise, if we consider they began already to wander from their first habitation, and were able to attempt so mighty a work as the building of a City and a Tower, whose top should reach unto the heavens. Whereunto there was required no slender number of persons, if we consider the magnitude thereof, expressed by some, and conceived to be _Turris Beli_ in _Herodotus_; and the multitudes of people recorded at the erecting of the like or inferiour structures: for at the building of _Solomons_ Temple there were threescore and ten thousand that carried burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains, beside the chief of his officers three thousand and three hundred; and at the erecting of the Piramids in the reign of King _Cheops_, as _Herodotus_ reports, there were _decem myriads_, that is an hundred thousand _men_. And though it be said of the _Egyptians_, _Porrum et cæpe nefas violare et frangere morsu_ [SN: Juvenal.]; yet did the summes expended in Garlick and Onyons amount unto no less then one thousand six hundred Talents. [Sidenote: _Who_ Nimrod _and_ Assur _were._] The first Monarchy or Kingdom of _Babylon_ is mentioned in Scripture under the foundation of _Nimrod_, which is also recorded in humane history; as beside _Berosus_, in _Diodorus_ and _Justine_, for _Nimrod_ of the Scriptures is _Belus_ of the Gentiles, and _Assur_ the same with _Ninus_ his successour. There is also mention of divers Cities, particularly of _Ninivey_ and _Resen_ expressed emphatically in the Text to be a great City. That other Countries round about were also peopled, appears by the Wars of the Monarchs of _Assyria_ with the _Bactrians_, _Indians_, _Scythians_, _Ethiopians_, _Armenians_, _Hyrcanians_, _Parthians_, _Persians_, _Susians_; they vanquishing (as _Diodorus_ relateth) _Egypt_, _Syria_, and all _Asia_ minor, even from _Bosphorus_ unto _Tanais_. And it is said, that _Semiramis_ in her expedition against the _Indians_ brought along with her the King of _Arabia_. About the same time of the _Assyrian_ Monarchy, do Authors place that of the _Sycionians_ in _Greece_, and soon after that of the _Argives_, and not very long after, that of the _Athenians_ under _Cecrops_; and within our period assumed are historified many memorable actions of the Greeks, as the expedition of the _Argonautes_, with the most famous Wars of _Thebes_ and _Troy_.