I will therefore face Mekhithar as a chronograph and not be successively in review the three parts of which his book is composed: the work of the six days, which, naturally,
will stop me little; historical times, from Adam to the Christian era; finally the history from J.C., until the time when his compilation ends, in 1289. To concentrate in
69 pages the chronology of 6487 years is not, strictly speaking, to write a story, but only to present series of personages and facts, which, if the latter are well
chosen, simply form a framework
