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CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE FORMATION OF THE NATION BY HAICUS, AND THE OF IT BY MEMBERS OF HIS ; THE WHOLE EMBRACING A PERIOD OF 1779 YEARS.

CHAPTER I.

The Foundation of the Armenian Monarchy by Haicus.

Haicus the son of Torgomah, on the of the descendants of Noah, in search of new places of habitation, took up his in the country of Senaar in, together with his sons and daughters and their families. At this epoch Haicus was, according to the Jewish computation, 30 years of age; but by that of the Septuagint, 130; his great progenitor Noah was still in existence. Here he lived for a long period, witnessing the