SHEDAUD.

A TRADITION OF THE EAST.

SHEDAUD the Proud was the successor of his brother, the just Shedeid, on the throne of the sons of Aad. They were the grandsons of Amalek, and thus descended from the direct line of Shem, whence have sprung the greatest and wisest of men, and the holiest of prophets. Shedaud reigned in the land which the men of the West now call Syria. He and his family were of the elder stock of the sons of Aad, than whom never dwelt on earth a race nobler in person or mightier in strength. They towered aloft in majesty like the palm-tree. Such was their strength, that when they stamped forcibly upon the hard clay, they could plant the leg knee-deep in the earth. That was the trial by which their young men, when the down of youth began to

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