1. Cush is wrongly translated "Ethiopia" in Isa. 18:11Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: (Isaiah 18:1), and elsewhere. The Cushites settled partly on the Nile and partly on the Euphrates. "Rivers of Ethiopia" or Cush, are therefore the rivers Nile and Euphrates.
2. Mizraim is a plural word, denoting both Upper and Lower Egypt.
3. Phut, an African people, known as the Libyans, and from whom the Moors are in turn descended.
4. Canaan is the general designation of the nations inhabiting the country from the Mediterranean on the west, to the Jordan on the east, and prior to Israel's occupation.
5. Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabtecha, Sheba, and Dedan, these seven names all refer to peoples settled at or near the Persian Gulf.
6. Babel, Erech, Accad, Calneh, these four cities originally formed the strength of the Babylonian kingdom.
7. Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, Resen, these four cities originally constituted the strength of the Assyrian kingdom.
8. Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim, these six, it will be observed, have the dual ending, and denominate various African tribes or nations.
9. Philistim are the well-known people who settled within the western borders of Canaan, namely, the Philistines.
10. Caphtorim are the original inhabitants of the Isle of Crete, now known as Candia in the Mediterranean, once a mighty kingdom of 100 cities, - so sang Homer.