phutia

Updated: May 19, 2025

Canaan occupied Palestine, and the country called by his name: Mizraim, Egypt: but Phut passed deep into Africa, and, I believe, most of the nations in that part of the world are descended from him; at least more than from any other person." Antiq. L. 1. c. 7. Paschale, p. 29. "The sons of Phut settled in Mauritania, where was a country called Phutia, and a river of the like denomination.

Thomas Clarkson - An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African: Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions