seventh moneth] Not from the beginning of the flood, but from the beginning of the yeare, 1656. wherein the flood was sent upon the world; and this not according to the Ecclesiastical account which was not in use before Moses time, (for so the seventh month was Tisri, September) but according to the civill account which began at September, and from thence the seventh moneth was Nisan (as the Chald. call it) Esth. 3. 7. Abib, (as the Hebr.) Exodus 13:4. that moneth answering to part of March, and part of Aprill. mountaines of Ararat] Upon one of those Mountaines called Ararat, the highest sort of hils, over which the flood prevailed, Gen. Chap. 7. vers. 19. There is a kingdome called Ararat, Jeremiah 51:27. (whither the sonnes of Senacharib fled when they had slaine their father, 2 Kings 19:37.) Isaiah 37:38. where the word in the Hebrew Text is Ararat, but in the English Translation Armenia in both places: and by Armenia is meant Armenia the greater, situate neere unto the Caspian Sea: some take it to be the same with Aram, and that Hebrew word the Vulgar Latine renders Mesopotamia which borders upon Armenia. These Mountaines of Ararat are called by Curtius, and by Berosus the Chaldean, Cordian mountaines, Epiphan. haeres. 66. which Ptolomy placeth in that part of Armenia the greater that looketh toward Assyria. Nicholaus Damascenus cited by Josep. Antiq. lib. 1. cap. 4. cals the Mountaine Baris; but howsoever there be dierence in the name, the most agree of the place that these hils are an hilly tract of ground in the Countrey of Armenia the greater.