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How Every Nation Was Denominated From Their First.
Inhabitants.
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Now they were the grandchildren of Noah, in honor of whom names were imposed on the nations by those that first seized upon them.

Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tansis, and along Europe to Cadiz; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names.

For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, [Galls,] but were then called Gomerites.
Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites, but who are by the Greeks called Scythians.