History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

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FOUNDATION OF ARMENIA. 6
events which happened during the erection
the Tower of Babel; the confusion of languages
that ensued ; the building of the city of Nineveh
and the foundation of sovereign power in Assyria
by Belus. During this time, his descendants
rapidly increased, and his sons Armenac, Manavaz
and Core had already distinguished
themselves by their wisdom and virtue.
The authority which Belus had succeeded ^^^^ >
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in establishing over the country of Mesopotamia
proving burthensome, Haicus, with his family,
amounting to 300 persons, exclusive of servants,
sought another place of abode.
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He first
proceeded northward to the country round
about Ararat,-
and here incorporated with his
followers a number of individuals whom he
found living in
a state destitute of all form and
order. These people spoke the original language
of their ancestor Noah, but they had for a
long time been almost entirely secluded from
civilized intercourse with their fellow creatures.
Haicus settled his grandson Cadmus, the son
of Armenac, near Mount Ararat, and then proceeded
with the rest of his family to
the northwest.
After a few days journey, he arrived on
an extensive plain, to which he gave the name
of Hare (fathers ;)
that his posterity might recollect
that the founder and father of their nation
was of the race of Torgomah, and the first who