And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Ver. 4. Mountains of Ararat.] On the tops of the Gordaean mountains (where Noah's ark rested) we find many ruins and huge foundations (saith the Preacher in his travels), a of which no reason can be rendered but that which Josephus gives: b that they that escaped the flood were so astonished and amazed that they dared not descend into the plains and low countries, but kept on the tops of those mountains, and there built.
a The Preacher's Travels, by John Cartwright, p. 32.
b Joseph. Antiq, lib. i. cap. 5.