CHAPTER V.
ARTS AND SCIENCES.
"Chaldaei cognitione astrorum sollertiaque ingeniorum antecellunt." Cic.

_de Div._ i.

41.
Among the arts which the first Ethiopic settlers on the shores of the Persian Gulf either brought with them from their former homes, or very early invented in their new abode, must undoubtedly have been the two whereby they were especially characterized in the time of their greatest power--architecture and agriculture.

Chaldaea is not a country disposing men to nomadic habits.

The productive powers of the soil would at once obtrude themselves on the notice of the new comers, and would tempt to cultivation and permanency of residence.