had staid seven more days, he sent the living creatures out of
the ark; and both he and his family went out, when he also
sacrificed to God, and feasted with his companions. However, the
Armenians call this place, (GREEK) (16) The Place of Descent; for
the ark being saved in that place, its remains are shown there by
the inhabitants to this day.

6. Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of
this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean.
For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood, he goes
on thus: "It is said there is still some part of this ship in
Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people
carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use
chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs." Hieronymus the
Egyptian also, who wrote the Phoenician Antiquities, and Mnaseas,
and a great many more, make mention of the same. Nay, Nicolaus of
Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a particular relation
about them; where he speaks thus: "There is a great mountain in
Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported
that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that
one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it;
and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved.
This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews
wrote."

7. But as for Noah, he was afraid, since God had determined to
destroy mankind, lest he should drown the earth every year; so he
offered burnt-offerings, and besought God that nature might
hereafter go on in its former orderly course, and that he would
not bring on so great a judgment any more, by which the whole