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CHRONICLES OF ERI;

BEING THE

HISTORY OF THE GAAL SCIOT IBER:

OR,

THE IRISH PEOPLE ;

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THl
PHCENICIAN DIALECT OF THE SCYTHIAN LANGUAGE.

By O'CONNOR.

The Ring of Baal.

VOL. L

LONDON-
PRINTED FOR SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS AND CO.

1822.

Printed by J. M'GowaD,
OfMt Windmill-Street.

Sm FRANCIS BURDETT,

OF FORF.MARK, BARONET.

My Friknd,
Wh e n in accordance with my desire that you should have
the evidence of your own senses, wherefrom to form your
own judgment of the length, depth, and complexion of the
last conspiracy against my life and honour, by agents of an
oHgarchy, whose every act is working a mighty revolution in
all the countries subject, and subjected to their fell dominionj
you came to Ireland ; at which time you consulted me as to
the best account of my ill-fated country ; I requested of you
to content yourself for the present with reading the book
that lay open before you, the dimensions thereof wide as
the land, whereon you would see marks of the iron-hand erf"
despotism; the time of pressure to be calculated from the
woeful havoc it had made ; and I promised that I would, as
soon as could be, present you with a true and faithful history
of my country, from the earliest times, whic^i would clearly
explain those causes that had produced the effects you syna-
pathetically deplored.

I now come, late as to time, but, as you knoM>', quickly,
when the manifold afflictions and consequent ill-health under
a

which I laboured, ave taken into account, to fulfil the
promise 1 then made ; not to lay at your feet, but to place
in your hands, the most ancient Chronicles of the people
whose descendants you saw, and whose melancholy condition
brought many a tear from your manly, pitying eye.

In selecting you as executor of this legacy which I be-
queath to those that now be, and to those who are yet to
come, for an everlasting possession, it is necessary that I tell
posterity the reason that hath actuated me to commit lo you
tiiis trust, which is not to be found in the exemplary manner
in which you have carried yourself in all the relations of
private life; nor because of your acquirements in the walks
of literature ; nor in the many proofs I have had of yoiir
friendship through a series of nearly thirty years ; nor yet
for the extension of your full and fostering hand towards
my children, whom you have made partakers of a portion
of your wealth, since persecution, in varied shapes, and the
success of diabolical machinations of a perfidious traitor,
taking advantage of the situation in which I had been
placed by that persecution, had' deprived their father of the
means.

Had it not been for you, my gallant boy, into whose hands
you gave his first sword, with instructions how to use
the destroying weapon in support of the rights of man,
against tyranny and oppres-ion, tempering justice with
mercy ; into whose ear you poured lessons of wisdom, pre-
cepts of humanity ; — had it not been for you, the career of
glory, wherein his actions have shed additional lustre even on
our names, had been cut short, and he had been deprived of
his fair proportion of tlierenown of these brave warriors who
have established the independence of the republic of Colum-
bia, all of whom are loud in his praise. Even tlicse powerful

causes united, would not be of sufficient weight to induce
me to constitute you tlie trustee of such a charge : these
things appertain to private life, and I feel pride in pro-
claiming to the world my thanks therefor.

These reasons and many more do combine to cause me to
admire you, to have an affection for you, and to retain a
friendship for you of a nature whidi few but faithful Irish-
inen can feel ; which when sincere, nothing can destroy,
though a tremendous blast may shake ; its position regained,
when founded on a rock, as my friendship is for you.

My motive is, that having had opportunities, for seven
and twenty years, of knowing you to the core, having stu-
died you , having watched you with an eye of circumspection
and of a true friend, who would have found fault if he saw
cause, I cannot call to my recollection one act in your rela-
tion with the public that I do not appi-ove, I cannot think
on any one occasion, that you have betrayed the trust reposed
in you by them ; whilst your never-failing advocacy and
vindication of the Irish people, has endeared you to all our
hearts.

At sometimes ^-ou have said, that it was most discouraging
to attempt to improve the condition of the state ; you have
compared the inutiUty of your continued efforts to the con-
stant drawing up of empty buckets from a well : pardon
me, Sir, be assured the buckets you have drawn up, have
not been empty ; — nay, they have been brim-full, and the
people are refreshing themselves with the contents. 'Tis
true, your eloquence and the proclamation of your just
principles, have made no impression on the self-nominated
and predetermined assembly of St. Stephens, amongst whom
the rule is, that what they call private honour, should super-
sede public duty: but not so with the people; the senti-

ments you l.ave uttered within llie walls ul' that liouae, have
been disseminated far and wi<le, and produced enquiries
tending to the most beneficial results for your country, to
promote the true interests of which, your labours have been
unceasing.

Your name is identified with the history of your times ; —
a majestic column is erecting to perpetuate the memory of
Burdett of Foremark . May long time pass ere it be com-
pleted ; and when completed, it will be of the most chaste
and simple order, all its members in perfect correspon-
dence, the characters in the universal language of nature,-
spea-king to all the nations of the earth.

Behold the reward of a grateful people^ to the incorruptibh
Pufriot, the Just Steward, the true and Jaithful Represen-
tative, the eloquent Orator, the intrepid Assertor of the liber-
ties of mankind, the MAN who dared to be honeat in the
worst of times, and 7oho scorned to court that popular ap-
plause, which it 7t'as liis chief est ambition to deserve !
1 ar.i,

Sir,
Wiih sincere respect for your many virtues,-
Your faithful friend,

O'CONNOB,

PREFACE.

THIS IS the fourth effort which I have made, to present
to the world a faithful history of my country.

Whilst I was immured in a prison in Dublin, during parts
of the years 1798 and 1799, charged by the oligarchy of
England with the foul crime of treason, because I would not
disgrace my name by the acceptance of an earldom and a
pension, to be paid by the people whom I was courted to
desert, and because I resisted their every art to induce me
to become a traitor to my beloved Eri, I employed my
time in writing a history of that ill-fated laud, which I had
brought down to a very late period, when an armed force of
Buckinghamshire militia men entered my prison, and all the
result of my labours, with suth ancient manuscripts as I had
then by me, were outrageously taken away, and have never
since been recovered.

Having beeu removed from Dublin in March 1799,
and taken off to Fort George in Scotland, in the very teeth
of the provisions of the Habeas Corpus x\ct, because I would
not become a party to a compromise, whereby I should have
destroyed my own fame, and justified the multitudinous acts
of tyranny exercised towards me ; in that military fortress
1 was occupied, when health permitted, in again writing the
history of my native land, which I had brought dov/n to

the last moment that I remained in that part of Scotland,
where I was detained until the commencement of 1801, and
from whence I was brought away a prisoner.

A part of my family and myself reached Forres, the first
night after our departure, and the ladies having left their
muffs in the room of the Inn in which we sat, they found on
the succeeding morning tiiat the messenger had ripped the
linings, under the suspicion, no doubt, of communications
from my fellow prisoners to their friends, whom I had left
behind, being there secreted, in ignorance that I had given
an assurance to governor Stewart, that neither I, nor any
of my family, would be the bearers of any papers from tliem.

This occurrence, added to the circumstance of my manu-
scripts having been accidentally left behind at Meldrum, for
which I had to send back a few miles, made my family
apprehensive that if the messenger should lay his hands
upon them, my captivity would be prolonged ; and having
passed a day of festivity at Aberdeen, with the officers and
wives of a regiment of native Scots, who had been quartered
at Fort George, during a part of the time of my abode
there, and from whom my family and myself had experienced
something more warm than mere attention ; the scene
brought back to our recollection days of former times, and
the partner of my secret thoughts being entitled to command
any sacrifice that she would ask, having requested of me to
suffer her to commit my writings to the flames, I could not
do otherwise than yield ; Thus j^erlshed the fruits of my
labour in Fort George.

Having regained my liberty shortl)- after my arrival in
London, so far as going abroad, I did not resume my favou-
rite object during my abode in England, which was till 1803,
when 1 returned to mvown country, and having availed mv-
sclf of the earliest opportunity of reclaiming from tiie Ixiwels

of the earth the most ancient maniisciipts of" the History of
Eri, I recommenced my pursuit upon a moie enlarged scale,
and had completed the work down to the memorable era of
1315, since Christ, (when the five kings of Eri, laying aside
their jealousies^ invited Edward Bruce, a prince of their own
race, to accept of the sovereignty of the land,) when it, and
almost all my most valuable effects, to a great amount,
perished in the flames which consumed all but the bare walls
-of the castle of Dangan, in the year 1809.

Were I a fatalist, assuredly I would have thought that it
had been decreed, that an authentic history of Inisfail, the
Isle of Destiny, was never to see the light. Havitig, for
some time afterwards, been kept fully occupied by agents of
the oligarchy of England, in defending my property and life ;
— liberty we wild Irish have none to lose, — I, for a while,
abandoned my project, and until the arrival of Sir Francis
Burdett in Ireland in 1817, meant to defer its execution ;
when I promised to present to him, at as early a day as pos-
sible, an history of Ireland on the truth of which he could
rely : which promise I now fulfil. This history is a literal
translation into the English tongue, (from the Phcenican dia-
lect of the Scythian language,) of the ancient manuscripts
which have, fortunately for the world, been preserved
through so many ages, chances and vicissitudes.

Should any captious person be inclined to entertain sus-
picion of the antiquity of these manuscripts, I beg leave
to observe, that I do not presume to affirm that the very
skins, whether of sheep or of goats, are of a date so old as
the events recorded ; but this I will assert, that they must be
faithful transcripts from the most ancient records ; it not
being within the range of possibility, either from their style,
language, or contents, that they could have been forged.

PJIEFACF..

So fully sensible was a man of Ireland, who far surpassed
all his contemporaries, and in truth, most men, I allude to
Henry Flood, that if encouragement were given to bring to
light and investigate ancient records of Ireland, still existing,
they would be the means of diffusing great knowledge of the
antique world ; and which, with the memoiials of the east
that even still remain, would illuminate all the intermediate
spaces of the earth ; so convinced was he, I say, of this Tact,
by means of the deep researches which his penetrating mind
had made, that he bequeathed the whole of his large pos-
sessions for the purpose of instituting professorships in the
University of Dublin, for the perpetuation of the Irish lan-
guage, and the purchase of manuscripts therein. In this
magnificent design, his views were uniortunately frustrated
by the contemptible policy of the incubus that hath long
over-lain unhappy Eri ; for, a claimant was set up to the
estates of the philosophic donor, to whom they were accord-
ingly decreed! Had his bequest been suffered to take effect,
there is no doubt but that very many manuscripts, of great
antiquity and value, which now are mouldering in a neglected
state, would have been brought forth.

It is not possible, nor would it be proper if it were, to
anticipate exceptions which peradvcnture, may be taken to
the chronicles of Eri. If such, however, should be made,
and of value sufficient, the objectors may rely upon it, that
satisfactory answers shall be given to all doubts and suspi-
cions, which hitherto have invariably been found to be pro-
portionate with the ignorance which at this moment pervades
the people of England, with regard to the history, ancient
and modern, of this celebrated land. — once the scat of
learning, and equal and just laws, now of demoralization and
injustice.

It remains that I now acquaint the world, that I shall in-
stantly resume my work for the purpose of continuing the
history of Eri, the next volume of which, to be brought
down to the year of the Christian era, 1169 ; I hope to com-
plete so as to be ready for publication in the month of March
next ; and if I live, I will prepare the Chronicles of Ireland
to the day of my birth in another volume ; and then I will
give the history of my own times in one other, the con-
cluding volume of the whole ; which five volumes will be a
complete continued history of this noble island, under the
names of Eri, to the year 1169, and of Ireland from that
epoch, from the most remote time to the instant on which I
shall drop my pen.

O'CONNOR.

Paris, 1821.

CONTENTS.

PAllT r.

Oires the traditionary account of the origin of the Scythians— the emi-
gration of a tribe of that race from their original land to the south-
ward of the river Oxu^• — their passage of the Tigris and Euphrates—
their dominion of western Asia — the invasion of their land by the
Assyrians — the building of Babel by the Assyrians — the flight of Ard-
fear or Noah, the supreme chief of the Scythians to Ardmenia — his
death and burial— the reign of Japheth in Ardmenia — the election of
Og, son of Japheth — the emigration of a colony from Ardmenia to
Thrace, Sec. — the «onq\iest of Iberia by Og — the emigration of a colony
from Ardmenia to the north of Caucasus — and to Numidia in Africa —
and from thence to Spain ; from v/hich time it gives the authentic his-
tory of the emigration of a tribe from Iberia to Spain — of the introduc-
tion of the Phoeiician letters into Galicia, in Spain, by Eolus — of the
institution of t!;e order of 01am teachers, or wise men — of the emigra-
tion of a tribe from Gallicia to Aquitania — of the regulation of the
priesthood — of the discovery of Britain by the Phoenicians — of the sepa-
ration of the isles of Scilly from the main land — of the invasion of Spain
by Sesostri,-; of Egypt, the battle of Samur, and the fall of Eocaid Golam
— of the departure of the Prince Ith from Galicia to explore an island
westward of B:i;ain — of his death — and the return of his son with
the survivors — Lugad's relation of the adventure — of the emigration
of the king, princes, nobles, 01am, and a colony from Breoccean, in
Galicia, to the western island.

PART II.,

Gives an account of the arrival of this colony on the western Isle —
their conquest of the island, which they call Eri — their covenant with
the preceding rulers, by which they retained the sovereignty of the
country now called Connaught — the establishment of the aborigines
on the borders of Loc Erne — the division by lot of the remainder of
the island amongst the two sons, and one grandson of Eocard Golam
— the present Munster, Leinster, and Ulster— the contention of the
kings of Deas and Gaelen, the battle of Cesiol, fall of the king of Deas,
and the usurpation of the title of Erimionn by the king of Gaelen —
the arrival of a company of PhtEnicians — the attempt to introduce
image worship into Eri — its failure— the death of Er, king of the

north, and tlie i'.ii;)osition of the name of UUad on his kingdom— the
buildhig of Dun Sobairce and Dunciermna the first stone edefice of
this tri!)e in Eri, or elsewhere — the invasion of Gaelen by the Danan
and Firgiieat — unsuccessful — the name of Deas changed to that of
MumvAn

PART III.
The legislation of Eocaid 01am Fodla, [wliereby Eri became a con-
federation of the three kingdoms of Numain, Ullad, and Gaelen ; the
king of Ullad being chosen ardri, or chief king — the building of Teac-
Mior, Oil Tobrad, where the national assembly of Eri, consisting of all
the kings, prince.>, and nobles, deputies from the olam, and heads of
the people, and the cliief and eight of the nobles of the Danan, met
every fourth year to legislate, and transact the affairs of the nations —
the tale of Leafail — the laws of Eri promulgated — the death of Eocaid
Olam Fodla, the wise legislator of Eri — contention between the
princes of Ullad for the first time, whereby the office of ardri, which
had been continued in the person of the kings of Ullad for aJiout 130
years, was vested in another.

PART IV.

The king of Gaelen chosen ardri — a noble of the Brigantes, in Britain^
comes on an embasy to Ullad — mines are worked on the southern ex-
tremity of Eri.

PART V.

The building of Aodmagnmaca — jMaca, a woman, reigns ! ! ! — a king of
Gaelen re-assumes the title of Erimionn — a tribe of Peucini, from Scan-
dinavia, arrive in Eri — depart — return — procure women by co/enant,
that the sons of daughters, not of sons, shall succeed to the throne of
Caledonia — IMaon, a young prince of Gaelen, flies to Caledonia — re-
turns— kills the murderer of his father in battle — the tale of Maon and
Moriat — JNIaon introduces foreign troops, who are violent and over-
bearing— a conspiracy against him and them — both he and they slain
— Gaelen called Laigean, from the long spears borne by these foreigners
— Imbior Slaigne now had its name of Loc Garman from them also
— the affecting relation of Aongus and Ainc — the title of Chief King
changed from Erimionn to Ardri — the permission of Ruidruide-mor to
Aongus for his son by his daughter to a portion in Ullad — the institu-
tion of the Clauda Ruid-ruide in Ullad.

Errata. — In the head-lines of all the pages from the cojiclusinn of
the Sixth Chapter, to the end of Part the First, for The Writing op
EoLus, read Curoniclbs of Gaelag.

C02!fTENTii OF THE DEMONSTRATION.

Pait I. A Deirioiiitratioii of the Original Seat, Nations, and
Tribes of the Scythian race . . . -

II. From the earliest Accounts of the Existence of this

Earth, to the founding of Ba-bel ... iv

III. From the dismemberment of the ancient Scythian Em-

pire, and the building of Ba-bel by the Assyrians,
in 25^46, to the expulsion of the shepherd chiefs

from Egypt, and their arrivaJ iu Pelasgia and Cero-

peia, about 1 100 before Clirist .... xv

IV. Of all the Scy thian tribes that emigrated to the Isles

of the Gentiles, south of the Ister, from the
Euxine, East, to the Rhoetiaii Alps, and Panonia
West to liie extremity of Greece South, from the
year 2170, fo the birth of Christ. ... xxi

V. Of the Scythian tribes that e-.^ionized the districts of

Europe, from the v»estei-:i extremity of Italy, and
the Rhoetian Alps, to the Germau Ocean, between
tlie rivers Danube, and Ri '>ne, north and ihe Gar-
ronne south ....... \\

VI. Of the Goths - . liii

VII. Of the Scythian Sidoiiians in Spain - - • xcii
VIII. Of the Ib-er-ian Scytiiiaiis :; Spain - - - xciv

IX. Of the Scythian Tribes in \\':t Isle of Britain • - xcviii
X. Of all the Nations of Europe, antecedently to the

invasions of the Scyltiia-ra .... ci

XI. Of the Manners, Custon.s, Original Institutions, and

Religion, of the Scythian race ... cviii

XII. Of the Language of the Scythian Race - - cxliii
Conclusion - ^ cccxlix

Directions for placing the Engravings.

Portrait

Map of Wibtcni

Asia

of Greece

of Span.

of Britain

VOL. T.

pas^e

Frontispiece

cxlix of Demonstration
clxviii of Ditto
ccxliii of Ditto

ccUvi of Ditto

VOL. II.
Interior of the Higli Chamber - Frontispiece

Map of Ejri to fwce page I

Roll of the Law;

A Demonstration of the Original Seat, Nations, and
Tribes of the Scythian race.

PART I.

X HE Chronicles of Er-i, about to be presented to you, re-
late to events so very remote, I have thouglit (it not to confide
the illustration of passages rendered obscure by time, to an-
notations solely, but to lay before you such previous informa-
tion, as may enable you to see your way yet more distinctly,
and as experience teaclieth, that the surest method of explain-
ing truth, detecting and exposing error, saving time by the
avoidance of repetitions, and preventing confusion, is to com-
mence with the origin of a subject, it is my intention to go as
far back as the first syllable of recorded time, detaining you at
the source, and through the different stages in our descent, no
longer than will suffice for the forming your judgment with
precision.

The main scope of my design is to elucidate the history of
that branch of the great Scytldan family, at this day languish-
ing on the emaciated bosom of unhappy Er-i, which is so
blended with the history of a considerable portion of Asia,
and a great pari of Europe, that it will be indispensable to
point out their original seat, from whence to trace not only
them, but all those tribes in any way connected with them,
and this I purpose to do from the evidence of the writings of
the Scythian tribe of the Hebrews intelligibly expounded. Of
EoluSf one of ancient days, of whom you have not heretofore
heard, and on the authority of the concurrent testimony of
antiquity, by means of similarity of manners and customs, in-
stitutions, laws, religion, and above all, by perfect identity of
language, and this so clearly as to admit of no doubt, or
farther question ; and as Geography is the finger. Chronology
the eye. Etymology the tongue of antiquity, I will annex

11 DEMONSTRATION.

charts of the countries, tables of times, and a glossary of words,
to facilitate our progress in the long, and I expect instructive
voyage to which I invite you, companion of my way.

But whilst I am indulging the hope that you are marching
with me, your faculties directed to the attainment of objects of
this eai'th, within the scope of the reason of man ; should your
mind be winging its way on pinions of miracle and mystery, in
the regions of air, the illimitable domain of fancy, and her
elfish train, wedded to dogmas to which it became attached,
you know not how, nor when, mere effect of casualty of place
of birth, from which in consequence of obstinacy, or indiffer-
ence you will not endeavour to divorce your understanding,
be not offended with me when I say, though you may have
made, or be capable of making the greatest progress in the
beaten track of literature, tlie Goal of icisdom you can never
reach.

Think me not unreasonable then, if I request, in return for
the pains I have taken for your edification, that you will do
your utmost to disencumber your intellect from any prejudices
it may have imbibed : to proceed in this interesting investiga-
tion with full confidence in the extent of your own powers;
not to decide hastily against the proofs about to be submitted
to you, because dates, and facts, or, to speak more correctly,
the style of nan-ating them, should differ from those on the
authority of which, you may hitherto perhaps have been in the
habit of relying, nor yet to imagine that relations are authentic,
because of their antiquity ; doth not the knowledge of the
days as they pass, lay open the grossest errors of times gone
by?

As it is my intention to study brevity, as far as may be con-
sistent with perfect clearness, it cannot be expected that this
demonstration should be extended to notices of ancient writers
at variance with each other, and not unfrcquently with them-
selves, and to comparisons, and refutations of the many schemes
of modern system builders, each contending for the support of
antiquity, according to the plan he may happen to have pre-
conceived, drawing conclusions from probabilities, and plausi-

DEMONSTRATION. HI

ble conjectures, pressing into his service every scrip of author-
ity favorable to his cherished hypothesis, discarding every ex-
pression of the same authority militating against it, attempting
to deduce effects from causes which never existed, and to qua-
lify ignorance by the abuse of what an ignorant doth not
understand; now building on a name as on a rock, then shun-
ning it as a quicksand ; at one time eulogizing, at another
time vilifying the self same individual, and when driven to the
last extremity, reference to common sense exhausted, recourse
is had to divine inspiration, and infallibility of sacred penmen,
whose words to be taken now literally, then figuratively, ge-
nerally bearing diverse meanings requiring explanation, are to
be considered most entitled to respect, when most irreconcile-
able to right reason, and least understood ; practices disingenu-
ous and unworthy. For myself I neither have, nor would I
condescend to have any scheme, system, or theory to serve a
purpose, my sole object being to deliver what I conceive on
the most diligent investigation, in my well weighed judgment
to be the truth. What glory can my country derive from an
origin deduced through thousands of ages, of what avail is it
in any point of view, whether our ancestors were ScytJiianSf
expelled by tlie Assyrians from the land of Shinar, fled to
Ardmenia, settled in Ib-cr-ia, emigrated to Spain, and from
thence were driven by Sesostris to Er-i. Or Aborigines of
the continent of Europe, or of the Isle of Bri-tain, were chased
from thence by the Celtce or Belga: to Er-i.- Why may not
this latter tale, for the propagation and establishment of which,
the hired scribes of England have, from motives of policy,
labored these three hundred years, as pro aris et focis, be
suffered to stand over our mighty fall ? Why ? because im-
mortal truth avouches the reverse, as you will find by a care-
ful perusal of the following pages, whereby you will be enabled
to distinguish Asiatic from European, — the adoration of Baal,
from Druidisw, and the idolatry of M annus, — the Scythian
lettered language from the Ger-mannic speech, — and the
Celtic tongue, by a chain of proofs, which though they may
fail to impress ethereal fancy, must convince the reason of all
who delight in wisdom and respect truth.

IV DEMONSTBATION.

From the earliest Accounts of the Existence of this
Earthy to the founding of Ba-heL

PART 11.

xloWEVER well founded the pretensions of the TatarSy
Chinese, Hindoos , Troglodites, Egyptians^ Ethiopians, Arabs,
or Assyrians, maj be to celebrity in ages the most remote, I
shall not enquire ; this demonstration concerns the Scythians,
other people no farther than relates to them.

Your mind will readily entertain the suggestion, that a great
length of time must have passed, before a people acquire the
science of forming figures whereby to delineate ideas. When-
ever these means of transferring the recollection of past occur-
rences,- from the fallaciousness of memory, to the more certain
record of letters have been invented, then are the most memo-
rable transactions compiled, then is rudely formed the history
of that people, the most early portion commencing at some
imaginary point of time, the whole filled with marvels, which
being from time to time passed through the filtre of the senses,
rendered by experience more and more capable of separating
truth from falsehood, matter too gross and palpable is every
now and then rejected, whilst the memorial of some few inci-
dents of the most remote date is preserved, and pertinaciously
adhered to, till at length reluctantly surrendered to reason, and
not unfrequently to the more authentic relations of some other
people, who had acquired the knowledge of letters, at an
earlier period, and whose history was in some wise connected
Avith theirs.

The facts are universally admitted, that the Phanician^
were the first people (whose history is connected with that of
Europe,) who became acquainted with the art of writing, and
had not attained the knowledge of printing ; that the Phoeni-
cian records (manuscript ol course) were destroyed by the

DEMONSTRATION. V

Romans^ or shared the deplorable fate of the memorials of the
east as far as our limits, in the flames of Alexandria, from
which circumstances it hath happened, that no work more
ancient than the writing ascribed to Moses, hath escaped to
our days ; as it contains an account of the world from the
beginning according to the notions of the Hebrews, I be"
leave to lay briefly and succinctly before you, so much thereof
as is applicable to our present subject, yrowz the commencement^
to the period of time, whereto this section is brought down.

Moses was one of the children of Israel, the man who conspi-
ring with his afflicted brethren, formed a grand confederacy of
his nation, which by uniting their force, enabled them to shake
off the galling yoke of servitude. He is said to have died
about one thousand four hundred and fifty-one years before
the birth of Christ, by the computation of the Hebrews,
according to which he was not in existence for two thousand
four hundred and thirty-three years from the commencement
of his history, nor did he write till seven hundred and twenty
years had elapsed from the time of the founding of Ba-
bel; the work was therefore compiled from the traditions
above mentioned, and hath had the peculiar fortune of not
having hitherto yielded up its manifold absurdities to reason,
on the contrary, they seem to have gained strength and con-
sistency, principally from being, if I may so say, opposed
thereto, as they are translated, attempted to be expounded,
and received. For this great man though I have ever enter-
tertained the highest respect, I must consider his supposed
writings as those of any other individual recording traditions,
orally delivered through a course of hundreds of ages, the
conservators labouring under the complicated disadvantages
of revolutions, emigrations, slavery, and wanderings.

On the authority of such traditions, the youth of the portion
of the world called Christiandome are instructed to believe

That this earth being ushered into light, by a being the
prototype of man, on a scale of dimensions infinite, attributes
iocoinprehensible, he created one pair of the human kind

VI DEMONSTRATION.

from the elements of a land called Eden, situated between
the Tigris and Euphrates.

That when 1656 years had elapsed, the Creator did forewarn
an individual of the name of Noah, the son of Lantech, who
dwelt on Shinar by Euphrates, to prepare a vessel for the pur-
pose of escaping from a mighty flood, with which he was
about to deluge the whole earth, by which means Noah, his
wife, his three sons and their wives, did escape to the mountain
of Arrarat in Ardmenia.

That Noah and his descendants did not separate for the
space of one hundred years, when as they were journeying
all together from the east, they Jbund a plain in the land of
Shinar, the place of residence of Noah before the food, and
they abided there.

That Nirnrod the gre^t grandson of Noah having assayed
to build a city and tower on the land of Shinar, which was
displeasing to the Creator, he prevented the prosecution of the
work, by confounding the thitherto one and only language of
mankind, so that no individual could understand another''s
speech.

That thereupon the people were scattered from thence over
the face of the whole earth, and left off to build the city.

And that Noah lived for the course of three hundred and
fifty years after this flood.

Such is the legendary tale of the Hebrews, as related in
the first ten chapters, and the nine first verses of the eleventh
chapter of Genesis, of the principal occurrences between the
times of their creation, and the building of Ba-bel, including
a space of one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six years.

Now permit me to make you acquainted with another man
of ancient days, who lived about 50 years later than Moses,
and hath also compiled the traditions of his nation, from the
earliest point of time noted, whose writing bed-fellow with the
mouldering bones of the illustrious dead for ages, hath been
rescued from the tomb by me his son. This man was Eolus,
chief of the Gaal o( Sciot o't Ibcr within Gaelag, between tlie

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years 1568, and 1335 before Christ. He is the writer of
the Chronicles, of this tribe of the Scythian race from their
origin, and during 158 years of their sojourn in Gaelag ; and
though you will presently hear himself speak, in far superior
phrase to mine, let me, in pursuance of the plan I have
adopted for the sake of precision, be permitted here to lay be-
fore you a brief summary of his history of his world, if not
from the same commencement as Moses, yet down to the same
ascertained period, the founding of Ba-hel.

From Eoliis we are given to understand,

That the Scythian race of mankind was formed of the
elements of the land above the sources of the great waters,
when, he doth not pretend to determine, but he doth say.
That of times marked they abided in their original place for
the circuit of One Thousand and eleven yeai's.

That at the expiration of that time, they moved south, and
having filled all the lands between the Sgeiiid, the Ocean, and
the Teth-gris, in two hundred and ninety-three rings, they
then passed over Teth^gris, and having reached the waters of
Affreidg-eis, occupied lath-da-cal, from whence they crossed
the Affreidg-eis. out-stretched their arms over all nations,
and became lords of the earth, maintaining their dominion
during one thousand eight hundred and nine years.

That when one thousand eight hundred and nine years were
completed, during which time they held the supremacy of
Western Asia, Ardfear, the Son of Am-laoc, being supreme
chief of all the Scythian nations, having his tents on Mag-
sean-ar, by Affreidg-eis, —Eis-soir speaking in a thousand
divers tongues, poured like unto a mighty flood in upon lath-
da-cal, whereupon Ardfear escaped by the waters of Affreidg-
eis to Ardmionn.

That war and devastation fBrevailed for one ring, then there
was peace.

That Eis-soir made the earth on which had stood the tents
of Ardfear and the chiefs, to groan with the weight of build-
ings durable, and walls round about, and a mighty tower to
watch the land on every side.

Vin DEMONSTRATION.

And that Ardfear abided in Ardmionn, and ruled that
land in person for the circuit of one score and eleven rings,
when he died, and was buried there, his spirit invoked by the
name of Na-oi^ borne in his little skiff, on the bosom of the
blessed Affreidg-eis, saved by Baal for the preservation of the
race of Ab-s-al, and the glory of the Gaal

Such is the relation of Eolus, prince of Gaelag, a lineal
descendant of Ardfear, the last chief of the ancient Scythian
empire.

Besides these memorials of the traditions of the Chaldean (a)
and Ardtnenian tribes of the Scythian race, we have the con-
current testimony of antiquity.

That the Scythians and Egyptians in the days of Tanaus
and Vexoris contended for the dominion of Asiay which being
gained by the former, the Scythians held the supremacy there-
of, for 1500 years, when a people called Assyrians, led by
Bel, invaded Mesopotamia, overthrew the Scythians, put an
end to the tribute to which they had subjected Asia, founded
the city, walls, and tower of Babylon, and erected the Assxj-
rian on the ruins of the Scythian empire.

Capellus, in the 15th chapter of his 2d book, as quoted by
Prideaux, in the 5th book of the 1st part of his connection,
hath said : " In historical matters it is not to be regarded
-what the Jews write, or what they omit, That of all na-
tions in the world, that have pretended to any sort of learn-
ing, they have taken the least care to record past transactions,
and have done it very bunglingly, and in a manner that looks
more like fable than truth, wherever they have attempted it."

That Capellus and Prideaux were competent judges no one
will deny, and here assuredly we have proof of the correctness
of the observation.

What though the book of Genesis hath been silent as to the
1304 years spoken of by Eolus, from the first note of time, to
the establishment of the Scythian empire on the plain of
Shinar. (b)

What though it hath represented the Assyrian invasion by
the figure of a flood, and separated that event from the
founding of Barbel by the intervention of one hundred years.

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Attributed to miracle the variety of languages of the many
nations of the Assyrian host.

Represented Noah and his descendants of one hundred
years, as the only inhabitants of this earth.

Introduced them journeying from the East, no mention
made of their quitting Ardvienia in the north-west,

Ascribed to Noah a life of 250 years after the founding of
Barbel, not one word in all that time of any thing said, or
done, by this sole monarch of their universe ; no account of
the place of his residence, of his death, or burial.

What though the Hebrews have asserted that Ba-bel was
founded by Noah and his children, yet in the same breath that
it was not] built, but abandoned in an unfinished state : the
people scattered abroad from thence over the face of all the
earth. Notwithstanding all these incongruities, and the im-
possibility of reconciling them with each other, as they stand
in their chronicles, by any rule of reason, in such a maze of
confusion do figures of airy fancy, miracles, and mysteries fly,
and glide, and twine through them, yet by disengaging the
Hebrew narrative from these deceptious accompaniments, will
their account on minute inspection be found in agreement with
the traditions of the Ardmenian Scythians, recorded by Eolus,
and of the Grecian and Roman tribes of the Scythian race, all
having relation to the same remarkable events, the recollection
of which, time the great innovator did but disfigure not ob-
literate.

The Scythian supremacy of Asia.

The irruption of a multitudinous people from the East.

The dismemberment of the Scythian empire.

The discontinuance of the payment of tribute.

Shinar the seat of the Scythian government.

Ardmcnia, the country to which the Scythian chief escaped.

A boat the means.

Shinar, the scite of the city Ba-bel, the metropolis of the
Assyrian empire.

The great variety of languages of those employed in the
work.

X DEMONSTRATION.

The erection of housea durable, lofty walls, and a stupen-
dous tower. Novel exhibitions to the eye of the tented Scy-
thian !

Emigration of the Scythians^ thereupon,

All accounts synchronizing, all dating these memorable oc-
currences at about 2246 years before Christ, the difference
amongst them being little more than the style of recording the
events. The traditions of the Hebrews charged with meta-
phor and miracle according to the invariable practice, the
traditions of other nations delivered plainly and simply, the
facts so stupendous, so impressive as never to be forgotten,
tho' liable to be exaggerated and misrepresented.

Turning away my ear from a rhapsody of etherial fancy,
chaunted in notes of wildness and delusion, 1 will speak in words
of soberness, in terms intelligible, touching the affairs of this
nether world, whilst I lay before you what I feel myself
warranted to consider the historic facts.

I feeel myself warranted to say.

That the original seat of the Scythian race of mankind was
north of the Oxus, as marked on the annexed chart, from
whence colonies moving southward, occupied all the land
between the Ind, the ocean, and the Tigris.

That this space being filled in the course of 293 years,
tribes passed the Tigris, and spreading themselves to the
Euphrates, fixed the supreme seat of the Scythian dominion
on the plains of Shinar, from whence emigrants moved west-
ward to the Mediterranean, and north-west to Caucasus and
the Euxine.

That when three hundred years had elapsed from the time
of their establishment on Shinar by Euphrates, Vexoris, king
of Egypt, having contended with Tainaus, chief of the Scy-
thians, for supremacy, was vanquished, from which time,
though the traditions of some ancient people, dated the com-
mencement of the Scythian empire, the Scythians, according
to Eohis considered themselves Lords of the earth 309 years
before.

That the Scythians having held the dominion of Asia from

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the waters of Ind to the confines of Arabia, Egypt, and
Europe, stranger people from the east, called by the Hehrexve
Ai-shur, by Bolus Eis-soir, by the Romans As-syr-ii, and in
the language I write As-syr-ians under the conduct of Bel,
invaded Messipotamia, defeated Noah the Scythian chief,
who with many followers, known by the name of Noe-maid-eis,
fled to Ardmenia, whereupon Bel instantty founded the city of
Barbel on the plain of SJiinar, and established the Assyrian
on the ruin of the Scythian empire, which let it have com-
menced when it may, whether 1500 years, according to some
ancient accounts — 1756 years according to the Hebrews — or
1809 years according to Eolus — terminated as before men-
tioned 2246 year antecedently to the Christian era.

I feel myself warranted to say,

That Noah, or Not', the son of Lantech of the Hebrews, and
Ard-fear or Naoi, the son of Am-laoc, of Eolus, is one and the
same person, and that he was the last supreme chief of the
ancient Scythian empire.

That Nimrod of the Hebrews, and Bel is one, that he was
chief of the Assyrians, not the son of Cush, the son of Sheni,
the son of Noah, the Scythian.

That AS'Shur, of the Hebrews, Eis-soir, of Eolus, and the
Assyrians, are one and the same people.

That the flood of the Hebrews, and the Assyrian invasion of
Messipotamia, as related by Eolus, and other ancients, are
one and the same transaction.

That Hiddekel, of the Hebrews, is not the river Tigris, but
the country between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates one and
the same as lath-da-cal, of Eolus, and Messipotamia of the
Grecian Scythians.

That the land of Shinar of the Hebrews, and Magh Sean-
atuir of Eolus, the seat of the ancient Scythian chiefs, and of
the first metropolis of the Assyrian empire, is one and the
same place.

That the city of Ba-bel wds funded by the Assyrians, not
by the Scythians.

That the difference of language was not the effect of mira

XII DEMONSTRATION.

cle, as whimsically attributed thereto by the Hebrews^ but of
tlie variety of nations, of which the Assyrian host was com_
posed.

And that the dispersion of mankind in the days of Peleg,
as described in Grenesis, and ascribed to the vengeance of the
Creator, for the presumption, and impiety of Noah and his
family, is one and the same erent, as the historial fact of the
flight of Noah, and the emigrations of the Nomades from
Messipotamia, a palpable and necessary consequence of the
Assyrian invasion, not the effect of divine indignation, and
supernatural agency.

I feel myself warranted to say,

That the ancient Scythian empire extended from the Indy
the tribes on the banks of which river were called Indo Scyihce^
to the confines of Europe, the tribes bordering on which were
denominated Celto Scythce, circumstances that accurately
point out their limits.

That antecedently to the overthrow of their most vast
dominion, there were three celebratod people of antiquity
from the Ind, to the Nile and the Mediterranean. Arabs,
Scythians, and Egyptians. That after that event, a fourth
people called Assyrians, for the Jirst time made their appear-
ance in that part of the earth, and that these four people
were totally different each from the other, in manners, cus-
toms, institutions, religion, and language; the variance not
growing out of miracles, and the dispersion of the family of
the man Noah, but because they had ever been from the
time of this globe becoming a member of this solar system,
distinct genera of the species of the animal man.

Though these events shrouded in obscurity for so many ages,
seem to be of no moment at this time, it is not so, on your
acquaintance with these facts mainly depends your capability
of clearly understanding what is to follow, for these events
miraculous causes have been assigned by the Hebrew writers,
the relation delivered in enigmas, which causes are considered
at this hour good and sufficient, and which enigmas have re-
ceived solutions perfectly satisfactory to immense multitudes of

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mankind, if • judgment can be formed from outward appear-
ances.

Not to enter upon an enquiry into the views and motives
of those, who have taken on them to expound the writings
of the Hebrews, nor of the description of persons who
impHcitly or affectedly receive their expositions, for myself
I say, though all the world in ignorance and singleness of
heart, should, or from zeal for the propagation of impious and
pious frauds, pretend to credit tales on the authority of
miracles and mysteries, I will never capitulate with such
treacherous foes to the senses, nor surrender my reason, which
is my revelation, upon the humiliating terms they exact.

Having now set before you all the known accounts of this
earth, from the most remote time to the founding of Ba-bel^
permit me to express an hope that you will do justice to your
understanding by removing every obstacle that may prevent
the full exercise of your reason, and thereby have your mind
in a condition to form a dispassionate judgment on the facts
submitted, and about to be submitted thereto.

In conclusion of this part of our subject, I beg leave to
add my own opinion, founded on my observations on the in-
vasion of nations. That the Arabs were the aborigines of all
the lands from the Oxus to the Persian ocean, and from the
Indus to the Mediterrenean sea ; and that on the pouring of
the Scythians from the north and north-east of the Caspian
southward, the Arabs retired before them beyond Etiphrates,
into the regions they have ever since occupied, impregnable
to strangers by reason of their situation, and natural pro-
perties.

NOTES TO PART II.
(a) 1 use here the term Chaldean following the Hebrew accounts.
That Abram, their progenitor, was from Chaldea.

(6) From Eolus we learn that his tribe of the Scythian race comtnenced
their noting of time 3113 years antecedently to the overthrow of their
empire by the Assyrians, which being 2246 years before the Christian era,
he whole space from the first keeping a record of time to the birth of
Christ, is 5359 years ; now by the vulgar computation, according to the
Mosaic accounts always adhered to, the chronology from the Creation to

XIV DEMONSTRATION.

the bktfa of Chritt is 4004 years how is this to be reconciled to the follow-
ing passage in Josephus ?

" Those antiquities (meaning the antiquities of his the Jewish nations*
contains the history of Jive thousand years, and are taken out of our sacred
books ; but are translated by me into the Greek tongue." Josephus wrote
his antiquities about 80 years after Christ, which time, substracted from
5000, leaves 4920, more by 916 than the sacred writings come down to us
declare, whilst Eolus and Josephus differ 439 years, not one moiety of the
space between the sacred writings of our days and Josephus. This plain
fact should make men cautious of placing implicit confidence in all writings
of very high antiquity, subject as they are to so many casualties.

(c) Mag-sean-tttam is pronounced Ma-senar, and signifies the plains of
the Old Father.

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From the dhniemherment of the ancient Scythian
Empire, and tJie building of Ba-hel by the Assij-
rians, in 2246, to the expulsion of the shepherd
chiefs from Egijpt, and their arrival in Pelasgia
and Ceropeia, about 1100 before Cerist.

PAKT III.

Having pointed out the original seat of the Scythian race,
the countries occupied by them, and described persons, and
events in terms intelhgible from the earhest note of time, till
the termination of the Scythian dominion in Messipotamia,
which was the commencement of the Assyrian empire in that
part of Asia, the first metropolis of which Avas Ba-hel, it
will be necessary to take a view of all the nations from the
Ind to the Mediterranean, after the Assyrian Invasion, and of
the effect produced by that event upon all the Scythian tribes
dwelling thereon, the history whereof is enveloped in ob-
scurity profound, the only intelligence being derived from
the writings of the Hebrews, which, (though in their customary
style of confusion,) will serve to enable us to grope our way,
if not by a connected detail to a satisfactory conclusion, yet to
the establishment of some few fects important to the illustration
of our subject.

When the Assyrians (whom from the description of the
Hebrezos, and of Eolus, I take to be the many people of Seres,
and of the neighbour lands,) invaded the Scythians, you must
not fancy they overran all the Scythian nations from the Ind
to Euphrates, nor that the Scythian empire, though shaken,
was annihilated. That great commotion prevailed in the line
of the Assyrian march is to be inferred, and that multitudes
followed Noali to Ardmcnia we are informed. By consultiirg
Genesis, we find that the Assyrians were engaged in building

XVI DEMONSTRATION

strong places, first in Messipotamia, and that the seat ot their
government was after a while removed from Ba-bel in Chaldea
to Nin-eveh, a city built by, and named from Nin the son of
Bel, on the east of the Tigris, some forty or fifty miles north
of Ba-bel, as mentioned in the 11th chapter of Genesis, the
theme of so many absurd conjectures of ignorant commen-
tators.

10. " And the beginning of his (Nimrod's) kingdom M-as
Ba-bel and Enoch, and Accad, and Calnah, in the land of
Shinar.

11. *' Out of that land went forth Asshur and builded
Nin-eieh, and the city Rehoboth and Caleb.""

Which passage is made as plain as words can do, by merely
giving the term Asshur its true signification thus : " the
beginning of his (Nimrod or Bel) kingdom was' Ba-hel in
Shinar, from whence went the Assyrians, and builded Nin-
eveh ;" an obscurity arises from an idea that Asshur was an
individual person, whereas the word means the Assyrians,
Asshur being an addition of distinction to the kings of the
Assyrians, by the Hebrews and all the Scythian people. This
translation of the Assyrian metropolis from Ba-bel to Nineveh,
was a measure resulting from wisdom and sound policy, not
from whim or caprice, and proves that the conquest of the
Assyrians had affected no parts of the Scythian empire, save
Messipotamia, and the countries lying between Nin-eveh and
their original land. Elam and all the southern nations of the
Scythians east of Tigris, had preserved their independence —
therefore must have been considered dangerous neighbours to
a government not yet firmly established. This was the motive
that induced the Assyrians to remove the supreme seat far-
ther from these warlike Scythian tribes, and in more direct
communication with their own country, leaving Ba-bel and the
land of Shinar to the care of" a viceroy, — and that Elam pre-
served its independence — and that the Assyrians did not carry
their arms west of Euphrates for the course of three hundred
and twenty-one years from the date of the commencement of
their government in Messipotamia, clearly appears from the

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fourteenth chapter of Genesis, and eveji tlmi not as conquerors,,
but as auxiliaries to Che-dor-loam-er (a) chief of tlie Scythians
of Elam.

1. *' It came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar,
Arrioch king of Elassur, Che-dor-laomcr king of Elam^ and
Tidal king of nations.

2. " That these made war with Bcra king of Sodom, with
Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shene-
ber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar

3. " All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim,
which is the salt sea.

4. " Twelve years they served Che-dor-laom-er , and in the
thirteenth they rebelled :

6. " And in the fourteenth year came Che-dor-laom-er, and
the kings that were with him.

8. " And there went out the five before mentioned kings,
and they joined battle in the vale of Siddim,

9. " With Che-dor-laom-er king of Elam, and with Tidal
kmg of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arrioch
king of Ii^5*Mr— four kings with five."

From all which, both in style and from the letter, it is evident
that Elam had not only continued subject to Scythian rule,
but that Che-dor-laom-er, at this time arrogating to himself a
supremacy over the Scythian nations west of Euphrates, aban-
doned by Noah and his Une, had now gained to his assistance
even Tidal king of nations, chief of the Assyrians, whose su-
preme seat was Nin-exeh, and his two subordinate governors
or kinglets of Shinar, the chief city of which was Ba-bel, and
of Elassur, for the purpose of enforcing his pretensions. The
expressions in the text are very full and explanatory, and
prove that Che-dor-laom-er was the principal in this invasion of
these five Scythian communities of Canaan, — which being re-
duced to subjection and tribute twelve years before, served not
Tidal king of nations, the great king of Nin-eveh of the As-
syrians, but Che-dor-laom-er the Scythian chief of Elam,
against whom having rebelled, in the thirteenth year of their
b

XVlll DEMONSTRATION.

subjection, he came in the fourteenth year with the same As-
syrian allits to punish them for their revolt,

As I have heretofore guarded you against the supposition,
that the Assyrians had subjected all the Scythian nations east
of Euphrates, so nere I caution you against the idea that all the
former inhabitants emigrated from the lands of their nativity,
whereon the Assyrians had actually seated themselves within
Messipotamia. That this was not the case, I beg to refer you
to the biography of Ahr-am, as set forth in Genesis, whereby
we learn that from inflexible adherence to the religion of his
forefathers, become much corrupted by the Assyrian, he quit-
ted Ur of Chaldea, and went north to Syria of Messipotamia,
where liaving sojourned till the death of his father, he removed
to the land of Cawaan,— circumstances confirmative of the
facts, that the influence of the Assyrian had not extended to
Elam on the one hand, nor to Canaan on the other, and that
both were yet Scythian. For it is not to be imagined, that
Abram could have fancied he felt an inspiration from the di-
vine essence, expressly directing his steps to the land of Canaan,
or that he could have suffered his nephew and protege, the
orphan Lot, to take up his abode on the very spot, reduced to
subjection and tribute to a distant power but five years gone by
— an event that must have been known to him — had he not been
equally certain that neither he nor Lot would be disturbed by
that power, in the exercise of that religion, for the free and un-
interrupted enjoyment of which, he had gone out of his coun-
try, and from his father"'s house. We are further informed,
that at the end of two hundred and fifteen years, all the de-
scendants of Abram, who dwelt in Canaan at that time,
amounting to threescore and ten, emigrated to Egypt, -where
all their children abided for the farther term of two hundred
and fifteen years, at which period we recognise them in twelve
tribes of Israel, united in the glorious resolution of striking
ofl^ the gyves and manacles of slavery, marching forth of
Egypt, and the house of bondage, to the land of Canaan
which they won, and whereon they abided ; upon which occa^
sion the Scythian tribe of Gergluxd, (called by the bible trans-

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lators Gergasliites) abandoned their country, and moving in a
body, establislied themselves in lower Egypt, known in the
historic page by the name of the shephei'd kings.

Strange spectacles ! Behold the children of Israel flying out
of Egypt, slaves escaping from a master, over-running and sub-
duing the greater part of the land of Canaan. Behold one
tribe o'i the Canannites pouring into the country, from whence
their invatlers had escaped, and becoming lords of a consider-
able portion thereof. How surprising the effect of habitual
terror on the minds of men moulded to servitude ; how irre-
sistible the force of union and determined co-operation ; how
powerful the excitement produced even by visions ; how languid
the inertness occasioned by the reality of a vicious system ; for
if the relation of the Hcbrexos, that the people of Egypt had
parted with their lands, be any thing like fact, is it to be won-
dered at, that the country fell an easy, a willing prey into the
hands of any invader ? So true it is, that men will more rea-
dily submit to the controul of strangers, than to insult from
their own kindred, besides, what motive have slaves to defend
a country, where they experience nought but inhuman cruelty,
treacherous deceit, and tyrannical oppression, at this time when
one nation of Scythian race, whom we have traced from Ur
of Chaldea, to Haran of Elassur, thence to Canaan, thence
to Egypt, and back again to Canaan, were taking root in
that land, another Scythian tribe, the tribe of Gerghad of
Canaan, were planted in Egypt, where they continued to in-
crease for the course of 350 years, when Mizraim moving from
upper Egypt, expelled the shepherd kings, some to the land
of Philistia in Canaan, whilst others of them shaped their
course for the country since called Greece, about the year
eleven hundred before Christ.

From all which I feel myself warranted to say,

That the ancient Assyrian empire was confined to Messipo-
tamia, and the countries known to us by the name of Media,
Parthia, and Bactria.

That the kingdom of Egypt did not extend eastward of
Yam Suph, or the Arabian gulph.

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That the Arabs dwelt on their own original land inaccessible
to intrusion.

That all the countries from the Ind to the Mediterranean,
save as above, were yet Scythian j at the era of eleven hundred
years before Christ.

And it shall be farther shewn with indisputable proofs,
when I come to speak of manners and customs, religion and
language, that these four people had ever been distinct genera
of the human species^ differing in all those features that cha-
racterize the animal man, the variance not produced by super-
natural means, but the effect of natural causes easily soluble
by the unsophisticated reason of man.

NOTK TO PART III.

(a) It may be asked why I assert so positively that Che-dor-laom-er
was a Scythian, to which I answer, because his name is compounded of
four Scythian words, the import of which is land, water, fire, and air, and
Elam is Persia, and Persia is Scythian, nor is there any record or tradition,
that the Persian Scythians were subjected by the Assyrians for centuries
after the era now spoken of.

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Of all the Scythian tribes that emigrated to the Isles
of the Gentiles, south of the Ister, from the Euxine,
East, to the Rhoetian Alps, andPano7ua West, and
to tJie extremity of Greece South, from the year
2170, to the hirth o/* Christ.

PAKT IV.

r OR the purpose of preserving a more close connexion
between the several parts of our subject, I thought proper to
dispose of all the Southern and Eastern nations of the Scythian
race, which done, and having traced the tribe of Gerghad from
the land of Canaan io Egypt, and from thence to Greece, I now
beg leave to conduct you North to Ardmenia, (whither Noe and
his followers, called from him Noe-maid-eis, fled on the inva-
sion of Messipotamia by the Assyrians, which country, ac-
cording to Eohis, Noe ruled for the course of one score and
eleven rings, when he died, and was succeeded by his 07ily son
Iqfoth.

This prince, undoubtedly Japheth of the Hebrews, is by them
said to be the father of all those tribes.

" By whom the isles of the Gentiles were divided in their
lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their
nations."

Notwithstanding which comprehensive mode of expression
by the author of Genesis, I pray thee fancy not that the
individual man was father of these families, though it be an
accredited fact that he was son and successor of Noe, chief of
the Ardmenian, Scythian, or Noe-maid-eis, by the descend-
ants of whom a vast portion of Europe hath been from time to
time colonized, what these parts were being the chief object of
our present enquiry.

Iqfoth ruled in Ardmionn for the space of two score rings
and two, and died ; when his sons having casted lots amongst

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themselves, to determine which of them should rule, the chance
having fallen to the eldest, the chiefs resisted, and elected
Og, the youngest of all the sons of lafoth ; whereupon the
eldest being desirous to leave Ardmionn, become populous by
the influx of emigrants from the districts occupied by the
Assyrians, took his departure westward, with a number of
followers, the ^rst colony that separated from their brethren
the Noc-maid'eis of Ardmionn, from which circumstance this
son of lafoth had the name of laban, and his followers the
specific denomination of the Og-eag-eis ; these are the first of
the Scythians who invaded the isles of the Gentiles, the parents
of all the tribes from the western shore of the Euxine, south
of the Ister, to the Rhcetian Alps and Panonia, save the
Scythian-Pelasgoi, and Akaioi, and Egypt ian-Danaoi, as I
shall now proceed to shew. And as Greece is the point of
commencement of the youth of Europe in the walks of litera-
ture, I purpose first to state opinions most generally prevalent
on this interesting subject, and then to present to you a concise
yet ample sketch, combining clearness with precison of all the
countries before mentioned, and of all the tribes which emi-
grated thither, and from thence between the above point and
period of time, when by shewing facts in their true light, and
assigning to them their due dates and proper places, I hope to
disengage the history of Greece from much of the embarrass-
ment in which it hath been enveloped, by the creation and
adoption of an illusive mythology, child of fancy and vain-
glory, parent of a spurious chronology, practised in the art of
feigning events for the occupation of imaginary times ; in
treating of which occurrences intimately connected widi the
Scythian race, mainly relevant to the chronicles of Eri, it is
probable I shall appear prolix to the learned, from an appre-
hension of not being more than sufficiently explanatory to the
ignorant, my great solicitude being to elicit the truth, regai-d-
less of the style in which my sentiments may be conveyed.

It is at this moment supposed that all the Scythian tribes
that entered the country now under consideration, save
those who followed Cadmus from Sydon, emanated from a

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district north of Caucasus, called by the Greeks in the time
of HerodotU'S, and on their authority by the Romans, not
merely Scythia, but Scythia Parentalis, a tale so often repeated
by modern writers as now to be considered authentic, and to
all appearance confirmed beyond farther question, though no-
thing is moi'e erroneous.

Proceeding on this surmise it hath been fancied, that multi-
tudes of the Scythian race, at the conjectured date of 2000
years before the ch-istian era, moved fi-oni this Scythia Paren-
talis by the western shore of the Euxine, at the north western
extremity of which some strayed souihM'ard to the Ister, which
they crossed, spread themselves over Thrac-ia, Meas-ia, lUu-
rike, Amath-ia, Thettal-ia, and had penetrated southward as
far as Peloponnesus, where it is said.

That in 2089, Egialeus founded the kuigdom of Sicyon.

In 1856, Inachiis established the kingdom of Argos,

In 1766, Ogyges was king in Attica, in whose time a flood
deluged Reot-ia.

In 1556, Cecrops was the first king of Athens.

In 1556, Deucalion lived, in whose days Thetal-ia was
inundated. That he was the son of Prometheus, and the
father of Ellen, and Amphiction, from the former of whom
Greece was sometimes called ''Ellas, and the Greeks Ellenes,
from the latter the famous council Amphiction, instituted at
Therm-op-yJjE, had its name.

In 1504, Sysiphus was king of Corinth.

In 1494, Cadmus was the first king of Thebes.

In 1 480, SesoUris king of Egypt invaded Greece.

In 1267, the Argonautic expedition was undertaken, and

In 1184, that Troy fell.

Though these dates have been copied by every writer, one
after another, and adhered to up to this hour with pertinacity,
as if an innovation effected by truth might endanger the des-
potism of the republic of letters, yet is there a considerable
variance amongst moderns, as to the severel tribes recorded to
have colonized Greece, which hath given rise to an infinity of
schemes and systems, founded not upon the weight of ancient

XXIV DEMONSTRATION.

authority, but ambiguous passages of antiquity, explained
after the manner of knavish lawyers, placing prominently with
laboured eulogium, all evidence tending however remotely, and
by the most far-fetched inference to support an hypothesis,
whilst it is artfully endeavoured to keep out of view, with the
evU intent of suppressing every syllable contrary thereto, as if
history was matter of opinion, and argument could convert
falsehood into truth ; hence have arisen essays, dissertations,
and controversies, respecting the Thracians, 'Ellenes, Pelasgoi,
and Atheneans, in diametrical opposition to each other ; some
supposing the Pelasgoi were the most ancient, some the Thra-
cians, others the 'Ellenes, some imagining the Lacedemonians
and Athenians of different origins, all confounding these tribes
with the Gothi, Getae, Daci, and have thrown the ancient
history of these nations into such a state of perplexity, that
the senses of the great bulk of mankind, bewildered in variety
of difficulties, at length yield to the most plausible conceit,
valued principally for its larger proportion of Greek and Roman
quotations, bold assertions, and the reputation of the writer for
what is called classic learning, though deficient in penetration ;
or if sufficiently endowed with sagacity, so full of prejudices,
or of that species of wisdom, which the base and vile call
worldly prudence, as to incapacitate him for the undertaking :
ignorant moreover of the ancient language, by which alone the
truth of traditions, and origins of very high antiquity can be
satisfactorily ascertained.

Was the origin of the various nations of whom I now speak,
my sole object, I should have contented myself with barely
stating, on the ccmcurrent testimony of antiquity, that every
tribe which entered these countries (save the inconsiderable
colony of Egyptians led by Danaus, the brother of Sesostris,)
was of the Scythian race, but feeling strong emotions of gra-
titude towards the illustrious dead, by whose spirit my soul is
fed ; feeling myself adequate to the duty, I hope not only to
receive indulgence, but that my delightful labour will be well
accepted, if I go more deeply into this subject, which will
produce the effect of presently satisfying the understandings

DEMONSTRATION. XXV

of men, or of provoking such an enquiry as must ultimately
tend to the establishment of truth, to which end I shall now
proceed to lay before you facts, by the simple arrangement of
which, the memory having something solid and orderly to re-
pose on, relieved from the continued exertion of retaining the
positions of figures of sportive fancy, gamboling in scenes of
sublime realities, will have an easy, well rewarded task in recol-
lecting all the most material parts of the ancient history of
that celebrated land ; if not the cradle, certainly the tender
nurse of arts and sciences, the cherisher of all the virtues ele-
gant, and of the order most severe, the land whereon liberty
erected her most sumptuous temple, and was worshipped for
ages with the adoration enthusiastically paid to her by men,
who know the value of freedom, till rivalship, jealousy, and
consequent disunion and luxury, opening a passage, corrup-
tion, and his hellish train, stole into the sanctuary, and de-
bauched the soul of liberty, the ravishers affecting to continue
their respect for her form, after all the qualities which ren-
dered her truly estimable were utterly destroyed.

I now beg leave to recall your attention to laban, and the
Og-eag-eis. This tribe, under the conduct of this leader, a
son of la-foth, and brother of Og, chief of Ardmionn (whither,
as heretofore mentioned, Noe, and his followers, the Noe-maid-
eis, had fled from Shinar by Euphrates, in 2246) took their
departure in 2170, from Ardmionn, directing their steps west-
ward along the southern shores of the Euxine, through Asia
Minor, already thinly occupied by nations of the Scythian race,
and crossed the Bosphorus.

What was the state, or who were the inhabitants of that
land, antecedently to their arrival, I find no actual ac-
count, the very brief notice in Genesis describing both in
the words " Isles of the Gentiles" and the writing of
Eolus merely saying, " the Og-eag-eis took no damsels with
them, purposing to join themselves with the maidens of the
stranger lands, whither they were about to go." Having
invaded the " isles of the Gentiles" they roved along the
western shore of the Euxine, to the Ister, then turning west-

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ward, spread themselves over all the lands of Thrac-ia, Meas-ia,
Amath-ia, Thettal-ia, and poured in such multitudes into the
country afterwards called Beot-ia, to which was now given the
name of Ogygeia, that the eruption hath been represented in
the language of poetry by the figure of a flood, as the Assy-
rian invasion of lath-da-cal hath been described by the Scy-
ehian tribe of Israel. From Ogygeia, they kept a southern
course, to the isthmus of Peloponnesus, which they entered, and
moved westward to the Ionian sea, then south along the coast
thereof, and had reached as far as the place Dyme, about the
year 1100, before Christ, when the Scythian tribe of Gerghad,
originally from Canaan, arrived immediately from the land of
Egypt, on the shore of Greece, led by chiefs to whom the ap-
pellations of Pelasgus, Inachus, Lelex, Ezeus, Eolus, Egialeus,
and Cecrops have been applied, from the first of whom the
tribe of the Pelasgoi are said to have derived its name, as well
as the entire country of Greece ; whilst the last of these chiefs,
as is fancied, gave his name to the southern parts of Attica,

On consulting ancient authorities, we find that the parts of
the country to which this tribe, in future to be called Pelasgoi,
repaired immediately on their arrival, were the southern dis-
tricts of Attica, where they built a town called Ce-crop-ia, and
the eastern shore of Peloponnesus, whereon they erected the
towns of Lycosura. Egialeum, afterwards called Sicyon, and
Phoronicum, the first buildings the soil of Greece ever felt.

Having established themselves in these the only parts of the
country, not occupied by the multitudinous and vai-ious tribes
of the Og-eag-eis, or of the aboriginal Arcadians, a colony of
the Pelasgoi urged by want of room, or from a roving spirit,
after the manner of the Scythian race, moved forth of their
original places under the conduct of Hemon, called the son of
Pelasffiis, that is a Pelasgian, invaded the land of Thettaly
which they occupied, about which time a colony, led by a person
to whom the name of Cadmus hath been given, arrived on the
coasts of Ogygeia from Sydon, with whom came casts of famous
men called Curetes, Cor-i-bantes, Telchines, and Idei Dactyli,
by whom were introduced the sixteen Phcnician letters into

DEMONSTllATION. XXVll

Greece. This colony was received with hospitality by the
Og-eag-eis, who granted to them a considerable district of
Ogygeia, to which the name of Cadm-eia was given, whereon
was built the city of Cadmeis, afterwards called Thebes.

It appears that between this branch of the Og-eag-eis, and
the tribe of S^dori, the most perfect friendship subsisted ;
accordingly we find them united under a chief of the Og-eag-
eis, making an effort to dislodge the Pelasgoi from the parts of
Thetaly, whereon they had encroached, in which being re-
pulsed, they overspread the maritime quarter of that land and
abided there. This chief of the tribe of Og-eag-eis, is known
by the name of ElleUy said to be a son of Deucalion, from
whom the Greeks in a large and poetical sense were oftimcs
called Ellenes, the entire country Ellas ; this invasion of
Thessaly by these two tribes, or Gaal, being also described as
a deluge, the flood of Deucalion.

This tribe of the Og-eag-eis henceforth to be called Ellenes,
liaving, in consequence of their communication with the Sydo-
nians, now conformed to more strict rules of society than their
brethren of Thrace, &c. and become stationary in lower Thet-
aJy.

A colony of the Peloponnesian Pelasgoi being confirmed in
the upper parts of the land of Thetaly, the main body esta-
blished m the Peninsula.

The Cecropian branch of the Pelasgoi abiding peaceably in
their original habitations.

The colony from Sydon led by Cadm-us, from whom the
Greeks are sometimes called Achaioi, being established in Cad-
meia, pushed out a colony westward, and dwelt there, calling
their settlements the land of the Curetes.

Such being the state of Greece, by which I am to be under-
stood to mean Thetaly, and from thence to the southern
extremity of the land, at about four-score years from the time
of the arrival of tiie Pelasgoi, and two-score years from that
of the Achaioi in Ogygeia ; those of the Og-eag-eis who had
abided within Peloponnesus as heretofore mentioned, were
attacked by the Pelasgoi of that Peninsula, and being expelled

XXVIU DEMONSTRATION.

therefrom, fled to the land of the Curetes, by whom they were
received with kindness, and assigned portions of that territory,
to which was attached the opprobrious name of Etol-ia, and to
the chief that of Etolus ; whereon they built two towns, one
in the plain called Pleuron^ the other in the hills called Cal-i-
dun.

The Pelasgoi being now masters of all the Peloponnesus and
Attica, to which the name of Pelasgia had been given, the dis-
trict of Eleusis excepted, and of Upper Thetaly. The EI-
lenes dwelling in Eleusis, Etolia, Lower Thetaly, the Achaioi
settled in Cadmeia and Achaia, to all which the general name
of Ellas was applied, all Scythians, though in different stages
of society, feeling the necessity of composing the animosities
created and nourished by frequent aggressions of the Pelasgoi
of Peloponnesus against the Og-eag-eis, a covenant was entered
into for the purpose not only of terminating all present differ-
ences, but of uniting all the branches of the Scythian family
against all other people ; the result of which was the institution
of the celebrated council, Amphictyon established at Therm-
opylae, composed of deputies from twelve of the communities
of the Ellenes, Achaioi, and Pelasgoi, save those of Attica,
Avho never having been concerned in any of the violences
offered to the Og-eag-eis, were not included in this confedera-
tion, formed about one thousand years antecedently to the
christian era. The first instance that occurs in the history of
the world, of popular delegation of authority, the original of
the representative system, by whatever various names it hath
since been called by the many nations of the earth.

It hath been just mentioned, that the council Amphictyon
had in view the two-fold object of composing internal family
dissensions, and of defending the confederates against exter-
nal aggression, now contemplated from Egypt, of which
country Sesostris was the chief; he had in the life time of his
father Ammon, made a voyage to the extremity of Yam Zuph,
where he had set up pillars, and in the year following, moving
through Lybia, and the maritime nations of Afric, with mul-
titudes of whom his host was swelled, he passed over into Spain,

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and having subjugated the Scythians of that peninsula tribu-
tary to Sydon, defeated the Gael of Ib-cr, within Buas-ce,
and Algarve, and the Gael of Sciot of Ib-cr m Gacl-ag, with
a signal overthrow; introduced the idolatry of Egypt into
Spain, erected columns, called from him the pillars of Hercu-
les, at the entrance of the Mediterranean, to preserve the
memory of his achievements, and stationed a part of his force
in Spain to guard his conquest, and collect his tribute ; he
returned to Egypt by the way of Gaul and Italy.

In five years after his return, his father having died, Sesos-
tris was occupied in beautifying the city of Thebes, which he
dedicated to his father, changing its name to that of No-Am-
mon, in building temples, and instituting oracles to him, now
a God, to whom divine worship was paid in Egypt, Ethiopia, .
and Lybia, now called Ammonia, in honor of him ; with
which regulations, and the consolidation of his greatly en-
larged empire, he was engaged, when Solomon, king in Israel,
his brother-in-law, died, whereupon he set over Samaria
Jeroboaniy the son of Nehat, who had long resided in Egypt,
and was entirely devoted to him, and soon after invaded Judea,
took Jerusalem, and sacked the temple.

Having humbled Judea, secured the fidelity of Samaria,
assured of the attachment of Edom, whose chief was nearly
allied to him by blood, and bound to his father, and to him,
by ties of gratitude for protection in adversity, his way thus
prepared for an enterprize long meditated, he -moved towards
Euphrates, penetrated through Persia, to the Ganges, at the
mouth of which river he had columns erected to immortalize
his fame.

This son of the God Jupiter Ammon, now crowned with
glory, borne on the spring tide of victory, having returned to
Egypt, and committed the government of Ammonia to his
brother lapetus, and the administration of Egypt to his bro-
ther Danaus, steered his course northward, pierced to the foot
of Caucasus, where he left his nephew Prometheus, son of
lapetus to secure his acquisition in that quarter, and having
subdued Colchis, established an Egyptian colony in that

XXX DEMONSTRATION.

country, under the charge of Etes, and liavlng had tables de-
hneated there of all his conquests, he bent his way to Thrace,
which he Over-ran, killed the chief Lycurgus, and placed
Oegrus, the father of Orpheus, over that land, from whence
he moved south, with intent to invade Greece; where the
tribes of the Ellenes, Pelasgoi, and Achaioi, presently uni-
ted, with the facility afforded by the institution of the council
Amphictyon, strengthened by the accession of the many tribes
of the Og-eag-eis, stopped short his career. Thus disap-
pointed, driven to the necessity of resorting to his superior
arts of policy, he addressed himself to the representatives of
Greece assembled at Thermopylae, by wliom he was invited to
a sumptuous banquet, whereat all differences being accommo-
dated, he returned through Asia Minor to Egypt, where his
■brother Danaus had formed a conspiracy against him, which
being discovered before the scheme was ripe for execution,
Danaus fled to Greece, where he was admitted with distinc-
tion, and in his company came the twelve superior gods of
Egypt, known by the title of " Dii viagni majorum gentiiivi"
who were presented by him to the council Amphictyon, gra-
ciously received, and acknowledged as the deities of Greece.

Though Sesostris prevented the treacherous machinations
of Danaus in Egypt, he was not so fortunate as to escape the
designs of lapetus in Ammonia, who rose up against, made
war upon, slew him, and retained the dominion of that ceun-

Upon the death of Sesostris, the mighty empire he had for
the course of fifty-four years been heaping together, began to
crumble and fall to pieces. lapetus had seized on Ammonia ;
Zerah, a native chief of Ethiopia, made himself master of
that kingdom, from whence, in the short space of nine years,
he invaded Egypt, when Onus, the son of Sesostris, was
drow^ned in the Nile, Buhaske, his daughter, destroyed her-
self, and thus perished the divine race of Sesostris, the great-
est warrior of ancient days ; one of the many examples the
historic page affords, of the vanity of conquests, the barbarity
of war and devastation, though attempted not merely to be

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justified, but extolled as the most glorious of arts, the most
sublime of sciences, all, as well as the precepts applicable
thereto, thrown away upon the rage for power of the few, the
stupid ignorance of the many. O man, what an hideous mon-
ster thou art, however fairly painted to deceive the eye, and
flatter the imagination, could self-love permit the most
faultless to draw a faithful picture of himself, from the con-
sciousness of reality, would he not start from his own image,
and hide his head for very shame ; did not instinctive suspi-
cion, that frightful as he is, such is his fellow, steel him in
audacity, maugre his manifold deformities.

Not more iJhan twenty years had elasped from the fall of
this mighty conqueror, who had dis-seated so many kings on
earth, enthroned so many Gods in heaven, till confederacies
were formed in Greece by means of the council Amphictyon,
which dispatched embassies to all the Scythian nations he had
invaded, inviting them to unite for the recovery of their ancient
independence ; in consequence of which the famous expedition
of the Argonauts was undertaken, (a)

That the council Amphictyon could not entirely counteract
the pernicious qualities of man, and prevent the recurrence of
wars amongst the societies of Greece we know, but that it fur-
nished prompt means of combining them against strangers is
equally certain ; accordingly we find that on a personal injury
offered to a chief, a confederacy was formed by all the nations
of Greece against Troy, which after a long protracted war was
destroyed, about 888 years before Christ, in three years after
which event Eneas took his departure from Asia Minor, and
being driven out of his course for Italy, arrived at Carthage,
whither Dido or Elissa had lately emigrated from Tvre ; my
reason for fixing which occurrences so positively even to a year
will be found in the table of chronology, by a careful perusal
of which, I trust Virgil will for ever stand acquitted of the
frightful anachronism of which he is supposed, and hath so
often been declared guilty, in making Dido and Eneas cotem-
poraries.

These events, an accurate acquaintance with which is essen-

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tial to a perfect knowledge of the ancient history of Greece
being enumerated, the places being described on the chart,
the due times being noted on the tables, collated with the dates
before mentioned, hitherto assigned by the herd of soi-disant
chronologers, who have preferred as the easier task, the copy-
ing of error, to the investigation of truth ; let me now briefly
repeat opinions inculcated and generally received, respecting
the origin of those tribes who colonized Greece, and all the
countries now under consideration, of which opinion we will
try the value by the touchstone of antiquity, by which self
same criterion the worth of the assertions I have with so much
confidence advanced must also be estimated, and as it is of
moment to relieve a subject from extraneous matter, attention
being more condensed thereby, I shall on the instant dispose
of the Achaioi, and Danaoi, of whose origins there is no doubt,
every one being truly convinced that the former came with
Cadmus from Sydon, the latter with Danaus, the brother of
Sesostris from Egypt, and confine my observations to the
tribes of Thrace, Macedon, Lybernia, Illurike, Ellas, and
Pelasgia.

The most prevalent idea is, that the forefathers of all these
nations emigrated from Scythia beyond the Euxine, called little
Scythia, and Scythia Parentalis in after times, and having
separated from the Gothi, Getag, Daci, &c. &c. crossed the
Ister into Thrace, from whence they continued to spread them-
selves westward to the Rhcetian Alps, and Panonia, and south
to the Bosphorus, Propontis, and Hellespont, and the utmost
extremity of Greece.

That the entire of the country afterwards called Greece, was
first known by the name of Pelasgia, from a chief Pelasgus,
from whom the tribe of Pelasgoi also derived their specific
denomination, as the territory of Attica had the name of Ce-
cro-pia from a man Cecrops, who emigrated from Egypt.

That the whole of Greece was next called from Hellas, from
a chief Hellen, from whom the tribe of Hellenes derived their
specific denomination.

That the Pelasgoi and the Hellenes were both tribes of the

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original Scythian stock from beyond the Euxine, that the latter
advanced no farther south than Thessaly, and though a small
tribe, and the last that entered Greece, gave its name to the
entire country, these are fancies that are maintained for every
fact, whilst it would be endless to repeat the diversity of ac-
counts as to the Athenians.

As I must enter my protest against these fancies, and all
the dates before mentioned, permit me now for juxtaposition
sake, to repeat my assertions, that having both opinions imme-
diately under your eye, you may be the better qualified to
form your own judgment thereupon.

My well weighed opinion is, that the ancestors of the tribes
that colonized Thrace, &c. did not emigrate from Scythia,
north of Caucasus, but from Ardmenia direct, along the south-
ern shore of the Euxine, and entered Europe by the way of
the Thracian Bosphorus, from whence some roved west to the
Adriatic, others south as far as Dyme within Peloponnesus,
and no farther.

That Peloponnesus and Attica were the only parts of Greece
called Pelasgia, but not from an individual Pelasgus, a crea-
ture of fable.

That the northern parts of Greece had the name of Ellas,
from which the tribe of Ellenes, and the chief Ellen had tlieir
denominations, not the country from the chief.

That the Og-eag-eis, who emigTated from Ardmenia in
2170 before Christ, were the ancestors of the Ellenes.

That the tribe of Gerchad, which abandoned the land of
Canaan, on the invasion of that country by the children of
Israel and Joshua about 1445, and established themselves in
Lower Egypt, from whence they were expelled in 1100, and
fled to Greece, were the forefathers of the Spartans and
Athenians, who were both Pelasgoi.

And that though the Ellenes and the Pelasgoi were of the
Scythian race, the kindred was ages upon ages remote when
they became united in Greece.

Previously to stating the evidence of antiquity, to which
reference is to be made, it will be necessary to notice the times
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in which the writers lived, wherefrom will appear the distance
between their days, and the events they have recorded, of
whom the first is Homery whose genius far transcends my
power of panegyric. But Homer was a poet, and poetry
toiling the judgment in the delicate, yet strong meshes of
imagination, slights slow, and step by step degrees, to a con-
clusion, the body and the very soul of history. He it was
who gave potency to the reign of fable, and confirmed the
empire of the gods, at whose fascinating shrine, gaily floating
between heaven and earth, his semi-divine fancy sacrificed
times, places, and circumstances, as offerings poor and hum-
ble. Such was the force of his example, that not only fic-
tions confessed, arts, sciences, and laws, but history itself,
were committed to the guardianship of epigram, which had
greater respect to elegant conciseness, than cumbrous detail,
disposed to surrender matter of great moment to mere har-
mony.

This captivating mode of recording the past, prevailed in
Greece, nearly till Herodotus made his appearance. Hath
Herodotus been honored with the title of " Father of history r
The glory hath been tarnished by the foul addition of " Shade
between fact and fiction," both epithets bestowed in days of
faint and glimmering beams of intellectual light, succeeding
dreary ages of profound darkness, wherein, with a beastly sub-
mission, men suffered their understandings to be shrouded by
the stupifying power of priestcraft, which cherished ignorance,
the guarantee of its dominion, and detested knowledge, the
foe to its various frauds, gloomy debaucheries, inhuman cruel-
ties, and manifold enormities, when a slight acquaintance with
the language in which Greeks and Romans spoke and wrote,
was accepted for wisdom, and travel and learning were held to
be synonimous. In the eulogies lavished on Herodotus, in
such woeful times, I do not concur, because I cannot discover
any extraordinary merit in a man of education, writing his
own language in correct style, his nation being sufficiently cul-
tivated to admit of an effort to the full extent of the talent
manifested in the works of Herodotus ; nor can I join in the

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censures attached to his writings, because they are the effect
of prejudice, yet prevalent from Uterary subservience to the
dogmas of the twiUght times of the 15th century, which
lacked penetration to discriminate between the valuable infor-
mation Herodotm hath imparted on his own actual knowledge,
and tales related to him in foreign lauds, of which he hath
been reputed the father, at least by adoption, though he hath
given no ground to have it assumed for fact, that he lent more
than his ear thereunto ; on the contrary, we hear him, in his
Polymnia, say, " But it is incumbent on me to record opi-
nions, though I am not obliged to credit them indiscriminately,
and let this argument be apphed to the whole of my history.'"
Nor is it unusual to hear his testimony adduced, which, when
carefully examined, is found extremely doubtful, or of a
tendency the very reverse from what his traducters had fan-
cied, {b) for which reasbn great care should be taken to dis-
tinguish between facts, vouched on his own experience, and
relations, on the authority of others. Yet as it is obvious
that his mind was somewhat inclined to the marvellous, his
evidence should be received with caution, when he speaks of
times very remote from his own days, an observation applica-
ble with equal justice to all his precursors, yea, and succes-
sors in the historic line, those of Greece not excepted, for
reasons presently to be explained.

When the Greeks adopted the narrative style in prose, they
observed great method, and in dividing their works into dis-
tinct parts, usually made three grand portions as to chronology,
which they called

The unknown,

'I'he fabulous.

And the historic ;
to which arrangement I shall adhere. And that this explana-
tion may be satisfactory, I beg you will read with attention,
and carefully examine my table of chronology, by which all
the most memorable epochs, particularly the time of Sesost-
ris are ascertained, the establishment of which will produce
the hicidus ordo so essential to historic detail, though it can-

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not authenticate the relation of occurrences between fixed
points of time.

Here, in the first place, it will be necessary to agree upon
the space occupied by the unknozon age, which, by common
place chronology, is made to extend from an imaginary point,
to the reign of an individual called Ogyges, king of xVttica,
in whose days a flood inundated Boeotia, answering to the year
1766 before the Christian era, but which, according to my
judgment, commences at the certain point of the invasion of
Europe, by a colony of Ardmenian Scythians, in the second
y€ar of Og, the youngest son of Japheth^ synchronizing with
the year before Christ 2170, down to the year 1100 before
Christ, when the colony of Pelasgoi arrived from Egypt, on
the southern shores of Greece.

When immortal Newton, whose spirit soaring majestically
into the boundless dominion of ether, penetrated all regions,
visited all worlds, ascertained the laws by which they were
governed, and returning, fraught ^vith inteUigence, summoned
to council all his senses, which, satisfied with the accuracy of
the report, directed the now perished hand to record the ac-
quisition, to which he made the human race his heirs— rich
legacy ! Nature warranting the title, science attesting the act,
wisdom affixing his seal to the probate of the testament.

When Newton, whose spirit still lives, and will for ever
live, whilst the elements endure, was occupied in investigating
the chronology of the Greeks, his vast mind discovered an
error in the date assigned to king Ogyges, which he did not
hesitate to pronounce earlier than the truth by 680 years ;
but though he clearly saw there was an error, gigantic as
were his powers, full of sagacity as his intellect was, he lacked
the means of demonstrating wherein it consisted. As these
means are in my possession, I feel great pleasure in supplying
his deficiency in that respect, to the confirmation of the opi-
nion of that highly gifted of the sons of men, and to the ad-
vancement of general knowledge.

Know then that no such individual as Ogyges ever existed,
that the term was applicable to the tribe of Scythian Nomades,

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>^ho emigrated from Ardmenia in the days of Og', of which
you will find the memory preserved in the writing of Eolus,
wherein they are described by the name of Og-eag-eis, led by
la-ban^ recognized in Javan of the Hebrews, Greece in the
land of Javan, Thrace and all the regions of which I am now
treating, " in the isles of the Gentiles," whilst the tribe is iden-
tified from the Euxine to the Adriatic, from the Egean to the
Ionian sea, yea, even in Er-i, all for the same reason because
all separated from the parent stock of Magh-og ; the tradition
of Og, and his glory (though not the founder,) the extender
and establisher of the Scythian power in Ardmenia, the chief
Prince of Meshech and Tubal, being preserved in the days of
Eolus, and even in the times of Ezekiel, later by 700 years.

Eoliis expressly mentions this emigration having taken place
when Og had ruled two years, assigns the reason for the eldest
son's leaving Ardmenia, for his being called la-han, and for
his followers being called Og-eag-eis, the signification of which
names shall_be explained ; and he adds they moved westward,
which fact alone demonstrates that they did not emanate from
Scythia beyond Caucasus, but when you hear from Eolus that
another colony separated from their brethren of Ardmenia
220 years afterwards, who did pass to the far side of Caucasus,
and abided there, calling the land of their dwelling after the
name of their race, there can be no doubt of the Og-eag-eis of
Thrace, &c. being a distinct tribe from the Goths, of which
two other proofs that cannot fail to convince, shall be given
when I come to speak of the latter tribe.

The time of the emigration and the route of the Og-eag-eis
under the conduct of la-ban being ascertained, what hath
become of the history of this grand people, through this vast
space of time, to which, in the language of the Greeks, 1 an-
swer, " Ovx oTt a^riXri aXKa xai ayvocrrn." It is " not only obsCUrc

and uncertain, but even unknown," save in the imperfect
record of some few widely separated facts, for the best of rea-
sons, the want of means amongst themselves of perpetuating
the memory of past events, and when the Sydonians arrived
with these means, they had to record the transactions of a

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century immediately preceding, and marvellous fables of fore-
times accepted for history, till as civilization advanced, and
fiction gave away to truth, the age of the Og-eag-eis which
embraced the whole space between 2170 and 1100 before the
christian era declined into that grave, from whence it can never
be recovered, to which age in comparatively modern times, the
Greeks referred for all manners, customs, and usages, the
origin of which could be found only in the practice of Thrace,
the prolific magazine of fiction for ancient Grecian poetic story,
the emporium of the unadulterated institutions of the Scythian
race. To the Og-eag-ian age I shall here put a period as to
Grecian history, with the observation, that the tribes of Thrace,
Meas, Macedon, Libumia, Illurike ,and Panonia, continued
to live after the primitive manner of the Scythian nations, and,
although the ancestors of the Ellenes, Etolians and Eleusinians,
were at no great distance of time to be called barbarians by
their more polished children.

This portion of time being disposed of, the age of the Og-
eag-eis being concluded, I purpose to direct your attention to
the country called Greece, whil«t we enquire into the ori^n of
the tribes of Ellenes and Pelasgoi, who, as before said, are
supposed to be derived from the same parent stock, but in my
judgment were very distantly allied, a question to be determined
by the evidence of men of ancient days.

We are now about to enter into the division of time, called
by the Greeks " the fabulous," extending either from 1766,
.the time of King Ogyges of fabulous memory, or from the
arrival of a colony from Egypt in 1100, to the restoration of
the Olympiads in 776, between which point and period of
time, we have no authority to refer to, poetry excepted, to
which on the present occasion I shall not apply, this demon-
stration being of fact not fable, of history not mythology.

This entire age having passed away, we come into the third
division called the historic^ of which when more than three
hundred years had elapsed, Herodotus made his appearance,
to tell of things so long gone by, and this accounts for not only

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the doubt and uncertainty in which he delivers his sentiments,
but the contradictions into which he sometimes falls.

He says in his Clio, " that the Lacedemonians were of
Doric, the Adienians of Ionian origin, the former in ancient
times known by the name of Pelasgians, the latter by that of
EUenes, that the former had never changed their place of resi-
dence, the latter often."

" Under the reign of Deucalion the Ellenes possessed the
country of Pthiotis, but under Dorus, son of Ellen, they inha-
bited the country called Istioeotis, bordering on Ossa and
Olympus, from whence being driven by the Cadmeans, they
fixed in Macedon, near mount Pindus, emigrating from whence
to Dryopis, afterwards to Peloponnesus, they were known by
the name of Dorians."

Yet in the 57th chapter of Clio, he says " The Athenians
were of Pelasgian origin."

In the 51st chapter Euterpe, he says, " At that period
(arrival of Danaus) the Athenians were ranked amongst the
nations of Greece, and had the Pelasgians for their neigh-
bours." " The Pelasgoi, before they lived near the Athenians,
formerly inliabited Samo Thrace."

And in the 58th chapter uses the expression, " When first
the Ellenes sepai-ated themselves from the Pelasgoi."

Having as above told us of the Doric origin of the Lace-
demonians, we hear him, chapter 53 in Erato, saying, " The
ancestors of the Dorian princes were of Egyptian origin.""

In Polymnia, chapter 94, he says, " According to the Grecian
accounts, the lonians, when they inhabited Achala, in Pelop-
ponnesus, before the arrival of Danaus and Xuthus, were
called Pelasgian Egialeans, they were afterwards named
lonians, from Ion son of Xuthus.

Again in the next chapter he says, " These once Pelasgian
were ultimately termed Ionian, for the same reason as the
twelve Ionian cities founded by the Athenians."

In the 31st chapter of Urania, Herodotus says, " The Dorians
are the original and principal people of Peloponnesus."

And in the 44th chapter we find these words . " The

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Athenians were Pelasgi, and called Cranai, when the region
now called Greece v/as possessed by the Pelasgoi, under
Cerops they took the name of Ceropians, the title of Athenians
was bestowed on them when Erectheus succeeded to the throne,
their name of lonians was derived from Ion who had been
general of the Athenian forces.

In chapter 144, reporting a speech of the Athenians to the
Spartans is the expression, "In the next place, our common
consanguinity.

To all which let us add, that he expressly says, "that
formerly all Greece was called Pelasgia. "

Such is the history of Herodotus, wherefrom, in my judgment,
is only to be inferred that he knew nothing of the subject,
insomuch that one is almost tempted to accord with the cen-
sures of Josephus, in his reply to Apion, wherein speaking of
the Greek historians he says, *' that those most zealous to com-
pose history were not so solicitous for the discovery of truth,
altho' it was very easy for them always to make a profession
of it, as to demonstrate tliat they could write well."

The next Greek to be consulted is Thucydides, he informs
us that, *' before the time of Ellen, the son oi Deucalion, Greece
was not known by one general appellation, the several nations
taking specific names from their ownselves. Pelasgicum being
that of the greatest tract ; but when Ellen and his sons had
acquired power in Pthiotis, conversation made the use of Ellas
become much more frequent among several people, though it
was long before it so prevailed as to become the general appel-
lation of them all. Those who came with Achilles from Pthiotis
being the fir?t Grecians who bore the name of EUenes ;" and
in the 11th page of his first book, he says, " Eighty years after
the Trojan war the Dorians with the Heraclidae took posses-
sion of Peloponnesus.

In page 82, he says, " the Phocians were now embroiled with
the Dorians, from whom the Lacedemonians are descended." (c)

In page 90, he says, " defer no longer to succour the Po-
tidocans, Dorians by descent besieged by lonians," that is,
Athenians.

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In book the 2d page 141, he says, " there was a spot of
ground below the citadel of Athens called the Pelasgic."

From Thucydides is also to be collected, that antecedently to
the time of Ellen the Pelasgoi had spread themselves all
through Greece.

And that the Thracians and the Ellenes spoke the same
tongue.

What says Strabo ?

He says that " the Pelasgoi overran all Greece, and roved
▼ery much."

And that " the Thracians under Eumolpxn colonized
Attica.'"

It would be tiresome and unprofitable to make more quota-
tions from the ancients, who as hath been before noticed, were
speaking of matter, even to them of remote antiquity, the
chronology vitiated in the extreme, every syllable they have
dehvered is to the same effect ; and truly if daily experience
did not instruct us, that the perverseness of prejudice deeply
rooted, particularly in. literary systems is almost, unconquerable,
it must excite astonishment to hear men echoing each other in
the fancy that they were repeating facts, because they spoke
in the words of antiquity, as in the instance now before us.

HerodotiLS says, and truly, that Pelasgia was the most ancient
name of Greece ! Why ? because the tribe immediately from
Egypt who assumed the specific name of Pelasgoi from the
district in which they first seated themselves, being called Pe-
lasgia, were established thereon full half a century before the
body of the Og-eag-eis who abided in Thessaly, took the spe-
cific name of Ellenes, from the northern part of Greece then
first called Ellas.

When Herodotus conducts a Scythian tribe from Thrace over
Olympus and so on to Peloponnesus, and seats them in Sparta,
and calls them Ellenes or Spartans, whom he considers one and
the same, he is perfectly right in saying that a Scythian
tribe did advance into Peloponnesus, and that they were of the
same stock as the Ellenes ; but I will differ even from Herodo-
tus, when he asserts they reached Sparta, or that they were cal-

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led either Ellenes or Spartans ; it was to Dyme this swarm
steered their course at this time, and were the ancestors of
those afterwards expelled by the Pelasgoi from Peloponnesus,
and who fled to tlie land of the Curetes or Achaia, as before
noticed, and branded with the name of Etolians. (d)

When he says that the Ellenes used the same speech as
the Pelasgoi, no wonder they were both Scythians; yet they
would use different dialects of the same original language,
and so Herodotus himself says, and marks that distinction (at
least) between their tongues, when he tells us that the Sydo-
nians changed their speech, befng surrounded by the Tones or
Pelasgoi, and by the Ellenes ; but what reliance is to be
placed in his testimony as to origin, seeing that he candidly
acknowledges his ignorance about the Pelasgoi, which is most
conspicuously displayed, without the addition of his avowal.

Thucydides first notices the Ellenes in Thessaly ; yes, that
is their true position, the country from whence they assumed
their specific denomination, being the north of Greece, in after
times denominated Ellas.

He also says, that before the time of Ellen, (described as
a son of a person called Deucalion) the Pelasgoi over-ran
Greece. Very true, and had seated a tribe in Upper Thes-
saly; to dislodge them from which, this son of Deucalion
poured such multitudes into that country, that the invasion
was represented by the figure of a flood, in the language of
poetry.

Tljough there is a superabundance of fiction in the ancient
history of Greece, and though figures and metaphors were as
frequently introduced by the writers of that country, as by
their brethren of Palestina, it must not be imagined there was
no foundation for the fable. Here the fact of the flood of
Thessaly i^ to be found in the invasion of these new quarters
of the Pelasgoi, by the Ellenes, whilst the fact of the re-peo-
pling by Deucalion and Pyrlia, of the maritime ports of
Thessaly, the seat of the Ellenes, is to be found in the colo-
nizing of that district by EUeUf with multitudes of the nor-

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lliern tribes, to whom the Ellencs were nearly allied, and from
wliom they had been but lately separated.

When Thucydides observes that the Thracians and the
Ellcnes spoke the same identic tongue, he proves, by the
most unerring criterion, the identity of the people, who, in
j)oint of fact, were one and the same, the Ellenes having
merely assumed a specific name. Why doth he particularize
the Ellenes } Because they and the communities of Eleusis
and Etolia, were the only tribes of the true Thracian stock,
within Greece.

Strabo repeats the information of Herodotus^ and of all his
predecessors, " That the Pelasgoi over-ran all Greece.'" But
when he says that Eumolpus and the 7'hracians colonized
Attica, he neglects to acquaint you with the part of Attica
colonized by him. As he differs very widely from others, who
assert that Eumolpus did not live for a century after the city
of Eleusis was built in the north of Attica, by Eleusine, called
the son of Ogyges, that is, in correct language, an Ogeagian ;
{e) As it is not my intention to attempt to reconcile fabulous
relations, I leave the point to your own judgment, with this
single observation, that Strabo did not live for mor? than
eleven hundred years after the circuijnstanceg he t^ikes upon
him to relate.

It is not from isolated expressions, and detached sentences,
admitting of argument and inference, that a question of this
nature is to be decided, but by the general tenor and concur-
rent testimony of antiquity, on principles broad and compre-
hensive, in which point of view, if we examine the subject,
we discover facts of more value than volumns of after thoughts,
and plausible conjectures, whereon to ground theories. For
if you imagine that the Greek historians were exempt from
framing systems, for the purpose of establishing points
favourable to the combination of their own glory as to anti-
quity, and their undoubted fame for all the refinements of
most highly polished society, you have hitherto been mistaken.

When in the days of Herodotus, and even long before, and
always afterwards, the Greeks cx>nsidered Greece as their

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country, without reference to the land of their progenitors.
If they advanced pretensions to an high antiquity and il-
lustrious origin, they must derive from the Scythians of
Thrace, the only bodies of whom in Greece were those of
Etoha, Eleusis, and lower Thessaly, which last assumed instead
of the general name of Scythians, or Og-eag-eis, or Thracians,
the specific one of EUenes, and separating from their northern
brethren, followed the example of the more civilized Pelasgoi,
and of the cultivated Sydonians, abandoned the tent, congre-
gated in villages, departed from community of lands, and
conformed to more circumscribed rules of society, than prac-
tised by their pastoral roving ancestors ; for this reason the
Pelasgoi would identify themselves with the Ellenes, but when
the circumstance was considered that the barbarians, as the
Thracians were called, must in that case have been the fathers
of the Pelasgoi, here was the dilemma, and thus attempts to
reconcile what was irreconcileable to truth, like Athanasius's
polemical logic, drove them upon all manner of absurdities,
and rendered what was plain and simple, intricate and compli-
cated, till the whole became a confused mass, so confused, that
we find the Athenians described as a colony of Egyptians, of
Pelasgians, and to complete the contradictions, as autoch tones,
that is, aborigines of that soil.

That we hear from one that the Ellenes wandered very
much, but that Pelasgoi never did, again that the Pelasgoi
were incessantly roving, but the Athenians were stationary.

That all Greece was called Pelasgia, and that all Greece
was called Ellas, and such like ; now to facts calculated to
explain the truth.

It hath been heretofore mentioned, that the Og-eag-eis
having from Thrace poured into the country first called from
them Ogygeia, then Cadmeia, afterwards Boeotia, proceeded
south, and had reached Dyme within Peloponnesus, when a
colony from Egypt, of Scythians, whose origin hath been
already traced, landed in the country now known by the name
of Greece ; here a material point to be determined, is the
quarter of the country wherein these strangers made their first

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xlv

appearance, which the general voice of antiquity declares, was
the southern extremity of the district afterwards called Attica,
and Peloponnesus called Pelasgia ; what farther doth the con-
current testimony of ancient days attest ? It atlests that imme-
diately on their arrival they commenced the building of the
towns of Cecropia in Attica, and Lycosura, Phoronicum, and
Egialeum within Peloponnesus, and that these were \he first
vallages of permanent materials, and fixed dwellings ever
erected on Greece, sights as strange to the wandering Og-eag-
eis, as the tower of Babel had been to their forefathers, an art
learned and practised in Egypt by these shepherd chiefs,
altogether incompatible with the state of society, in which the
Og-eag-eis were, who lived on acorns, of which they made
bread, on the milk and flesh of their flocks and herds, and
occupied a place no longer than it afforded pasturage for their
domestic kine, and game for the hunter.

When you read in books of history, that men congregated
in settled habitations, and became stationary before they had
the knowledge of cultivating the earth, and producing com ;
consult your reason before you give credit to the relation ; if
the Canaanite did not possess this science before the invasion
of Egypt, (and if credit is to be given to Genesis, they did in
the days of Ab-r-am,) they would have learned it in Egypt,
so much farther advanced were they than the Og-eag-eis in the
social track. Having built these towns on these ascertained
spots, what is the first authentic intelligence we have of them.
Is it not of those of Peloponnesus moving northward, and
establishing a colony in Thessaly ? here then we have proof
direct and positive, that the first parts of Greece on which
houses and towns were built, were in the extreme south, from
whence those who erected them emerge, bending their course
to the North, whilst we have proof as direct and positive, that
the tribes which had been in the roving occupation of these
regions antecedently to the arrival of those colonies, by whom
these cities were founded, invariably moved from the North
towards the South.

What is the next enterprise in which we hear of the Pelasgoi

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being engaged ? Defending themselves against the attempts of
the Ellenes, to drive them from Thessaly, where they had
become stationary, that was the mighty aggression, temporary
occupation might have been acceded, more especially as all were
of the same race of mankind, and expressed their thoughts in
similar speech, but exclusive appropriation so foreign to pure
Scythian custom, was not to be tolerated. Established in
Thessaly, what do we next find the Pelasgoi of Peleponnesus
engaged in ? Driving the Og-eag-eis in the north of the Pen-
insula forth thereof. On all these occasions we do not hear of
the Pelasgoi of Cecropia being concerned, no, they valued
themselves for not having gone roving about after the manner
of their brethren of Peloponnesus, to whom in their sarcastic
style they gave the name of Pelargoi, calling themselves
autocthtones, a term so much mistaken, and entirely perverted
in more modern times, which did not mean that they were
Indigenes, but that where they originally landed, there they
had abided, and had not roved therefrom after the manner of
their brethren of Peloponnesus ; and this was the reason that
the Athenians were not originally included in the covenant
which produced the council Amphyction.

Though the proofs are quite sufficient to shew that the Ellenes
and Pelasgoi were not descended from the same stock, though
both were of the Scythian race, that the former originated in
the north, and moved south ; and that the latter first appeared
in the south, and occupied the void lands which the Og-eag-eis
had not had time to have even ran over, and invariably moved
north. That the former were in the pj-actice of the genuine
Scythian manners and customs of community of lands, roving
with their flocks, and women and children from place to place,
as Anacharsis describes the Ellenes, but not the Pelasgoi nor
Achaioi, and that the latter first erected cities, became stationary,
and cultivatsd the ground after the manner of Egypt ; there
remains one other fact which demonstrates clearly and fully that
the Pelasgoi and Ellenes were more remotely allied, thatfi
writers of modern times, in over zeal to prove their Scythian
origin, of which there is no doubt, would have them. It is this.

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that from the moment the Pelasgoi found themselves sufficiently
capable of aggression, we for the first time hear of war in
Greece ; we find them flying forth of the lands wherein they
had originally hghted, and perching oft the places of Thessaly
then in the transitory occupation of the Og-eag-eis.

Cast your mind back on the history of the earth, from the
earliest time till those of which we are speaking, though you
may recall accounts of war and devastation, was iiot the con-
tention between diverse races of the human kind, not kindred na-
tions, a fact that invariably proves their being distinct people.
The Egyptians warred with the Scythians, Ethiopians, Lybians,
&c. The Assyrians invaded the Scythians, circumstances that
shew their diversity. Chcdorlaomer chief of Elam invaded a
part of the land of Canaan, it is true ; but we are in total
ignorance of the cause, it seems as if his motive was to regain
titular supremacy, as chief of the ancient Scythian race, be it
what it may the aggression was productive of no permament en-
mity. The first people in the register of time who confederated,
arms in their hands, premeditated evil in their hearts, to molest
a kindred people, were the children of Israel ; but they had
been 215 years in bondage in a strange land, and slavery
vitiates the soul, corrupts the mind, and changes as it were the
essential qualities of man ; they had for a long season felt
themselves deserted, and forgotten by the world, save their task-
masters, in whose practices towards them they only recognized
the ways of man. Every hand was against them, therefore did
they raise their arms against the world ; and whilst they
adopted some of the manners, customs, and religion of their
tyrants, they abandoned divers of their own ancient usagei^,
and struck out a system of religion and policy, unlike every
thin g that had ever prevailed, for the sole purpose of keeping
themselves distinct from all the people of the earth ; besides,
the relation between them and the nations of Canaan was
hundreds of ages removed. In the very early stage of society you
will find no mention of pure Scythians warring with their kind.
Had the Pelasgoi been of the stock of Og-eag-eis they M'ould not
have warred with them, in the inveterate manner they are reported

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to have done, had both proceeded together in the progress to-
wards refinement, till they had arrived at a stage far more ad-
vanced than either were at the era of the arrival of the Pelasgcn
in Greece; and in further corroboration of the distinction between
the Ellenes and Pelasgoi, permit me to adduce the evidence of
Anacharsis, the true Scythian philosopher, who was qualified
even in the age he lived to form an accurate judgment of the
manners, customs, and language, of all the tribes of Scythian
origin from the the Euxiae to the extreme south of Greece, all
the districts of which he had traversed ; and his evidence is, " all
the Ellenes observe the Scythian manners and customs!!''
Why particularize the tribe of the Ellenes ! surely it will not be
said that the Pelasgoi were too insignificant to be added also.

It is to be remarked that there is no diversity of opinion
amongst the ancients with respect to tlie distinction of Doric
or Lacedemonian, or Ionic and Athenian ; but please to
recollect these were comparatively modem appellations ; for
though Herodotus at one time says, the Dorians were the
original and principal people of Peloponnesus, yet he and
Thucydides mark the era of the Dorians settlement in that
Peninsula, placed by both "not more than fourscore years
after the Trojan war, which ill accords with remote antiquity,
and early origin.

Having laid before you all the notices of any value on the
subject of the origin of those Scythian tribes that colonized
the districts of Europe, from the Euxine to the Rhoetian Alps,
and Panonia west, and to the extremity of Greece south, be-
tween the Ister and Bosphorus, Propontis, &c., I feel myself
warranted to deliver for very truth.

That the chief of the Scythian race, who conducted the first
colony into Thrace, was laban, called by the Hebrews Javan,
the son of Iqfoth, the son of Ardfear, who is Noah, the last
supreme chief of the most ancient Scythian empire ; that he
took his departure from Armenia, in the second year of his
brother Og, with a colony which had the name of Og-eag-eis.

That they entered Europe by the way of the Bosphorus, and
had roved after the manner of their race, as far south as the

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country of Eleusis, north of Attica, and the northern parts
of Peloponnesus, when a colony of Scythians also, originally
from the land of Canaan, immediately from Egypt, landed m
the southern extremity of the land, which they occupied, and
whereon they instantly commenced to build towns, from which
circumstance that part of the country got the name of Felasce,
and this tribe that of Pelasgoi, of which tribe the Spartans
and Athenians were the most celebrated people.

That a body of the Og-eag-eis had proceeded on the shore of
the Egean sea, as far south as Eleusis, to a district which they
called Ogygea, at the time of the arrival of the Pelasgoi, in
the extreme south, which tiibe of the Og-eag-eis assumed the
specific name of Ellenes.

And that the connexion between these two Scythian nations
of the Og-eag-ean Ellenes and the Canaanite Pelasgoi, is not
more near.

That Cadmus, the Phoenician, led a colony of Sydonian
Scythians to the district of Ogygea, which the Ellenes yielded
to them, and which from them was called Cadmeia, after-
wards Boeotia, and these are the Achaioi.

That Danaus, the brother of Sesostris, led a colony of
Egyptians to Greece. These are the Danaoi.

That the Hebrews designated the Aborignes of all these
regions first colonized by their Javan, by the name of GentUes,
which Gentiles I consider to be the people called Helots, who
retired to Arcadia, and to Messenia, in a southern, and to
the land of the lapydes in a western direction, where they are
called Celtae.

And as to the names of Pelasgia and Ellas, though there
is no reason why that of Pelasgia should not have prevailed
before that of Ellas ; yet did neither prevail as to the entire
of Greece, Pelasgia being the south, and Ellas the north
thereof; both being applied much about the same era.

These things, after an infinity of research, I dehver for
historic facts, submitted to the judgment of those, to whose
care the education of youth, an awful trust ! is confided, and
to all who delight in wisdom, and the words of truth.
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NOTES TO PART IV.

(o) In am aware thnt Thucydides has said in the very commencement
of his work, " Before the affairs of Troy it doth not appear that Greece
or Ellas was ever united in one common undertaking, nor indeed did the
same subsist at all before the time of Ellen the son of Deucalion ;" this
expression of Thucydides is but one of the innumerable proofs of the ex-
treme inaccuracy of the Grecian historians, particularly in chronology, if
you will cast your eye on the suppositions, and on the true era of events,
you will perceive Ellen was antecedent to the Argonautic expedition,
which was prior to the war of Troy ; and it cannot be said with truth, that
the Argonauts did not confederate under the sanction of the council Am-
phyction.

(6) To avoid controversy, I have not hitherto pointed at, nor men-
tiened the name of any individual ; — at the same tinae I must declare that
I could enumerate liundreds of instances, wherein moderns of seeming
candour and respect for truth, have cited Herodotus, from whose pen they
have quoted passages, the very reverse of what he hath distinctly advanced.

(c) Though I have always steered clear of conjecture, I beg leave to
offer a suggestion in this place, though the Greek historians are remarkable
for delivering contrary opinions : here we find Herodotus and Thucydidts
in agreement as to the origin of the Lacedemonians, both asserting that
they were Dorians, who came with the Heraciidse into Pelopormesus at
the era agreed upon by both, of four-score years antecedently to the Trojan
war, which was 450 years before the days of Herodotus.

May not this be the cause of the confusion of the origin of the Pelasgoi
and EUenes ; the original Pelasgoi from Egypt first came to Peloponnesus,
who being afterwards subdued by the Dorians who were Ellenes, Hero-
dotus and those of his days lost sight of origin, and called the Lacedemo-
nians who had been Pelasgoi by the name of Ellenes, because they were
Dorians for so long a time before. I would have men of literature think
of this.

(d) It is here to be observed that I am speaking of origin, this emigra-
tion spoken of by Herodotus, was at the era just mentioned in the former
note, which has nothing to do with origin. I repeat that no tribe of the
Ogyges was known to have proceeded so far south as Sparta, antecedently
to the invasion of the Doric Ellenes with the Heraclidae, about four-score
years before the Trojan war.

(e) The real history of this visit of Enmolpus to Eleusis, conduces to
explain the origin of these tribes. Erectheus chief of the Cecropeian Pe-
lasgoi, made war on the Ogygeian Eleusinians, to whose assistance Eumol-
pus a prince of Thrace came, that is, the Ogygean Thracian assisted the
Ogygean Eleusinian against the Pelasgians, so much more remotely aUied
to his tribe, for it never must be lost sight of, that all were of the Scythian
race of mankind.

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Of the Scythian tribes that colonized the districts of
Europe, from the western extremity of Italy,
and the Rhcetian Alps, to the German Ocean, be-
tween the rivers Danube, and Rhine, north, and
the Garronne south.

PART V.

.1 HOUGH these colonies were the latest in point of time
that proceeded westward, and formed separate independent
j'.ations, I have thought it better, for connexion sake, to con-
tinue in this their central course, to a conclusion, before we
proceed north or southward, more especially as few words will
suffice.

On this part of our subject I have to observe, That the
country now called by the general name of Italy, received a
colony of Pelasgoi, led by jEnotrhes, the son of Lycaon^ from
Greece, about 1000 years before Christ.

About which era Saturn conducted another colony from
Crete to Italy.

That about 940, Evander emigrated from Greece also to
Italy.

That about 883, Italy received Enea^ and his followers
from Troy.

That a colony of Lydians from Asia Minor settled west
of the Tyber, in the country called Etruria.

And that a colony of Phocians from Greece emigrated to
the banks of the Rhone, where they founded Massilia.

Of all which Scythian tribes (with what mixture of the
Aborigines I cannot take on me to say) the divers communi-
ties of Italy were composed ; of whom, one distinguished by
the name of Romans, did in process of time subdue all the
others, founded Rome about six hundred years before Christ,

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spread themselves to the extremity of our present limits, in-
corporated a considerable portion of their population, and in-
troduced their language (which became influential) amongst
the greater proportion of the Abori^nes.

To which let me add, that the natives in the western extre-
mity of Italy, had the appellation of Umbri applied to them
by the first invaders, who gave the general name of Celtas
and Galli, to all the original inhabitants from the Rhoetian
Alps to the Ocean.

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Of tJie Goths.

PART VL

X COME now to speak of the Goths, another tribe of the
great Scythian race, a question of great interest, embracing
the consideration of the original inhabitants of the northern
parts of the continent of Europe, as well as the stranger peo-
ple who intruded on them, a subject always obscure, and ren-
dered much more so by theories and systems of semi-ancients,
and writers of modern times.

Previously to entering on this part of our investigation, it
will be necessary, as usual, to state and examine various opi-
nions, that have from time to time obtained temforary cur-
rency, now to be replaced in the scale of your well poised
judgment, to receive the stamp of your approbation, or re-
jected, if found wanting ; which done, I shall proceed to de-
liver what I conceive the historic facts demonstrable from the
evidence of men of ancient days, speaking not from vague
hearsay, but on their own actual knowledge, premising, that
you must bear in mind, I am treating only of origins, wherein
brevity is to be studied, as much as perspicuity will admit.

SECTION I.

The first of these opinions is, " That Scythia, beyond the
Euxine, was the parent country of the Scythian race, from
whence their various tribes emigrated ;" against which, as re-
lating to the colonies that occupied Thrace, lUurike, and
Ellas, I offered some evidence in the preceding chapter, re-
serving my remaining proofs to this time, tending to demon-
strate generally that Scythia beyond the Euxine, was not the
parent country of the Scythian race ; and particularly that it
was not from thence the tribes of Thrace, he. emanated.

The first authority to be cited on this occasion, is that of

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Herodotus, who expressly says, " That the people of whom I
now speak, affirmed that their country was the last formed ;
and that from the reign of their first king, to the invasion of
their country by Darius Hvstaspes, was not more than one
thousand years ;" tliat is fifteen hundred years before Christ.

If you look on the cliart, you will see the original seat of
the Scythian race, about Im-magh, from whence you can
trace their progress southward to the ocean, between the
waters of Ind east, and of Euphrates west, from whence, in
process of time, they penetrated to the Mediterranean, and
north to Caucasus, all which regions were occupied by multi-
tudinous tribes of this distinct race of mankind, till an eastern
people invaded the countries as marked on the chart, on which
event the gj-eat chief Nue escaped, with many followers, north-
ward to Ardmenia, where he, and those who fled with him,
are identified in the Noe-maid-eis, in the neighbourhood of
the Araxes, as before mentioned. Of the existence of this
ancient Scythian empire (ascendant in hyperbolical phrase
over Asia, in historic language over the part of Asia delineated
on the chart, for 1500 years at least antecedently to 2247
before Christ, when It was shaken and dismembered by the
Assyrians) we have the testimony of the Hebrews, which,
though delivered in obscure terms, after their manner, disco-
vers at bottom (though concealed and disfigured) the truth,
made manifest by Eolus, accredited by Herodotus, Diodorus
Siculus, Trogus Pompeius^ and divers others, all agreeing in
commemorating the fact. How then could any ancient or
modern come to fancy, that Scythia north of the Euxine,
was the parent seat ; did they suppose that the true parental
Scythians in the regions about Im-magh had extended them-
selves beyond the waters of Rha, to the Tanais and Euxine,
and thus were to be considered the parent ? No, that was not
their idea, because, according to the evidence of all antiquity,
the Scythians commenced their migrations, after the dismem-
berment of their ancient empire, from Magseanar in Messipo-
tamia, the countries invaded by the Assyrians, from whence
they moved north to the Araxes, the point of departure i^i

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after-times of nearly all those tribes rcho colojiized Europe, as
set down in tlie chart ; besides, how could the ancients ima-
gine that Scythia beyond the Euxine was Scythia Parentalis,
and at the same time record the idea of these very Scythians
being the most modern of nations : whereas the Scythians con-
tended for precedence in antiquity in ages the most remote,
assigning as one reason that the lands of the elements of which
they were composed, stood so much higher not only than
Egypt, (their chief competitor,) but all other parts of the earth
known to them, which is fact as to the real Parental Scythia of
which the Ancient Scythians spoke ; (a) but is not true of
Little Scytliia beyond the Euxine. How are these seeming
contradictions to be reconciled .'' nothing more easily. The
Greeks in the days of Herodotus, and long before, had lost
sight of the Parent State, though not of the Ancient Empire,
divers districts of which, had changed inhabitants in conse-
quence of the Assyrian invasion, whilst those that remained
Scythian had assumed distinct tribal denominations, and the
region north of Caucasus being called Isciot, to preserve the
memory of their race was the only country that also preserved
the ancient name, though the tribe who emigrated thither
assumed the specific appellative of Goth, of which tribe, and
the many tribes sprung fx-om them, it was the parent seat, but
not of the Scythian race ; and though it is an error to desig-
nate it Scythia Parentalis, it is critically correct to call it
Goth-ia Parentalis, which in fact it was ; therefore when the
Goths spoke of their novelty as a distinct tribe, they spoke
truly and candidly after their manner ; as Scythians they would
and always did boast of their antiquity, as Goths, they were
comparatively but a modern nation, and when they said par
hazard, one thousand years antecedently to the time of Darius
Hystaspes, they may not be far from the truth, the date of
their having assumed their specific name of Goth, and electing
a Ceann to lead them westward, being so long from the time
of their emigration from the south, as was requisite to occupy
all the country from the Rha to the Tanais, apd a distance
northward, which might occupy the space of time between 1950,

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the era of their departure from Magh-og, and their invasion of
Europe, for it was on that event they changed their arms of
war, from the bow and sling, which would be of no avail in
the forests of the lands of the Cimmerii or Celtae, to the long
spear, and from that circumstance either assumed, or received,
from their, kindred of Magh-saigiote, the name of Goth.

These proofs being absolute against the idea of Scythia
beyond the Euxine being the parent seat ; few words will
suffice to shew with equal force that it could not be the country
from whence the tribes of Thrace, Ellas, and Illurike, &c.
emigrated ; for which purpose we have but to refer to the
afore-mentioned acknowledgment of the Goths, that they were
a modern community, modern in their northern seats, not
older than 1500 years before Christ, and to couple this decla-
ration with that of their supposed children, founding cities in
Pelasgia 2089, and of the reign of a King Og-eag-eis in Attica,
176(5 years before Christ, dates centuries antecedent to their
fancied separation from the parent stock. As relating to the
Goths both these assertions must be incorrect, as relating to
the Og-eag-eis, who emigrated from the Araxes 2170 before
Christ ; both 7nai/ have been true, though chronology and
topography be violated as in the present instance, no town
having been built in Pelasgia for nearly 1000 years later than
the date above mentioned, no chief nor tribe of the Og-eag-eis
having advanced as far south as Attica, for 600 years after the
above era, as before shewn ; but do we not frequently detect
the ancients in mistakes of the like sort, though remarkable
events with which they are connected be accredited ? what
though the chronology of the Greeks was founded on no
principle till the arrival of the Phoenicians, and on an errone-
ous system from that period, till the restoration of the Olym-
piads in 776, before Christ ; is it possible to conceive that the
most acnte intelligent people of the earth, would subject them-
selves to be convicted of stupidity so flagrant, as to derive their
origin from a nation, that by their own account, did not exist
for ages after the occurrence of events, ascribed to thtni in

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their new seats, to which they had affixed dates utterly incom-
patible therewith.

Eohis saith expressly that la-ban and the Og-cag-eis moved
Avestward from Ardmenia into a strange land 2170 years
before Christ. The Hebrews say, the sons of Japheth colo-
nized the isles of the Gentiles, and designated Greece as the
land of Javan, the son of Japheth, the first emigrator, an
important fact, wherein, as in very many others, the Hebrews
and Iberians agree; we hear of cities being built in the
southern extremity of Greece in 2089, of a king Ogyges in
Attica in 1766 before Christ. We are told of the Goths boast-
ing of their being a modern nation, not more ancient than
1500 years before Christ, and yet these modern Goths are the
ancestors of the first colony that separated from the Noe-maid-
eis, identified so clearly by Eolus, and the Hebrews, whose
footsteps are so accurately marked from Ardmenia to Thrace,
Macedon, and Greece as to leave no room for doubt.

We are informed by Justin, the abbreviator of Tragus Pom-
peius, that the Scythians contended with the Egyptians for
antiquity, that the controversy was determined in their favour.
That they held the supremacy of Asia for 1500 years before
the commencement of the Assyrian empire ; and yet it is
clear that the same Tragus Pompeius describes these ancient
Scythians dwelling north of Caucasus, the ancestors of those
who had invaded the lands of the Cimmerii, who by their own
account were a modern nation ; here are contradictions not to
be reconciled, and only to be accounted for by the extreme
ignorance of the ancients; but I cannot discover that any
ancient has derived the extraction of any of the tribes south of
the Ister from the Scythian Goths, and that they could not
with truth, shall be more distinctly proved in our progress
north of Caucasus, when I come to speak of these latter people.

SECTION II.

The next opinion to be noticed is, — That Scandinavia was
the parent country of the Scythian race ! an idea conceived in
the dth century by Cassiodorus, fostered by Jornandes, Bcde,

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and others of their time?, adopted by numbers in these our
days, distinguished by the honourable title of learned, who,
inverting the order of nature, fancied that from the frozen and
ahiiost sterile regions of the north, myriads of warriors poured
forth, penetrated to Caucasus, which they surmounted, and
contended with the Egyptians for llie empire of the world.

To dispel this surprising vision, to quench this ignis fatuus
that hath dazzled the intellectual eye of many, who should
not have been so deceived, it is enough to appeal to the com-
mon sense of all, save such as have an ambition to be remark-
able for an extravagance of imagination, at the expence of
reflection, and to be held in remembrance for singularity,
though their judgment may be liable to impeachment thereby;
but as I tliink there would be as great an absurdity in setting
about seriously to disprove such a conceit, as in the conceit
itself, I sliall dismiss the further consideration thereof, with
the observation, that this fantasy originated in the total igno-
rance of antiquity in the framers, who mistook the irruption
of Og-eis Caiin into Asia, for the wars of Tanaiis and Vex-
oris, and confounded the era of 640 with that of 3663 before
the birlh of Christ.

SECTION III.

The third opinion I shall lay before you is from a note of a
bible commentator, on a passage in the eleventh chapter of
Genesis, which (in the description of the dispersion of man-
kind from Shinar, and the several destinations of the children
of Noah) saith of the sons of Japheth :

'' By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided, in their
lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their
nations."

Whereupon the commentator delivers the opinion of the
Christian pricstliood thus :

" Though there entered but eight persons into the ark,
yet the hest authors agree that there might be no less than
3,333,333,330 pair of men and women proceed from them by
this time ! ! ! And now God dispersed them over the face of

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the earth, to replenish it ; thus Japheth and his sons peopled
part of Asia, and in process of time the offspring of his son
Go7ner, extended themselves beyond the Danube, into Ger-
many and France, and were called Cimmerii and Cimbri;
from thence they passed into Britain, and are thought to
have been the founders of the Welch, who at this day call
themselves Kumcro. Magog became the father of the Scy-
thians, Madai of the Medes ; Javan peopled Greece, Meshech
Muscovy, Tiras Thrace."

This passage hath not been selected by way of pre-eminence,
or inferioi-ity, but merely as a specimen of the dogmas which
the youth of Christendom have been instructed to receive for
very truth. Having neither leisure nor inclination to examine
the whimsical calculation of those best authors, to whom the
annotator alludes, I shall pass over this part of the subject,
with expressing my surprize at the omission of a miracle, -so
essential on this occasion, to account for the means, whereby
such a hyper multitudinous host, dwelling together, were
sustained ; no manna, quails, nor locusts, and proceed to en-
quire how far the other assertions are warranted.

This scheme is founded on the credit, really or pretcndedly
attached to the Hebrew relation of a deluge, in the strictest
sense of the word, and of the annihilation of the human race,
save four males and four females, preserved in Ardmeuia,
which would have produced the necessary consequence of the
whole earth "being replenished from thence by the survivors ;
but from the fact of the first colonists of Europe known to
mortal (the bible commentators excepted) having met with
animals of the human race, on their entrance into that quar-
ter of the world, it became incumbent on those, who derive
excessive power, superabundance of riches, from the invention
and establishment of miracles and mysteries, whereby they
are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously
every day— Why Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed,
like one of these, to account for the prior occupants, on failure
of which, they must have surrendered tlie entire machinery,
to the ruin of their temporal interests, for which, if we may

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believe themselves, they would feel no anxiety, compared with
their sohcitude for the etei-nal happiness of mankind, whom,
nevertheless, they are in the constant habit of tyrannizing
over, making miserable, by terrifying, insulting, and render-
ing subservient by all manner of ways and means, not merely
to their necessities and comforts, but to the disgusting luxuries
in which they indulge, diametrically opposed in the whole tenor
of their lives to the precepts and example of the meek, be-
nevolent, and philanthropic Jesus, to whom they give abun-
dance of mouth, honor, and glory, whilst their practice betrays
the falsehood of their tongues. In this embarrassment it oc-
curred, fortunately for their pious or their impious frauds,
that the Greeks and Romans called the original inhabitants of
the north of Europe, Kimerioi and Cimmerii, which, by a
slight alteration, the men of miracle changed to Gomer-ii, and
thos the Aborigines of Europe became metamorphized into
the posterity of Corner, the sou of Japheth, the Scythian.

This marvellous chimera we ax-e now to examine, and as I
entertain the reasonable hope, that you are in a fit temper of
mind to investigate the subject, as becomes a being endowed
with reason ; that you view the deluge of the Hebrews in its
true light, viz. the overthrow of the ancient Scythian empire
by the Assyrians, hke unto the flood of Ogyges, Deucalion,
or the Cimbric Chersonese ; that you are aware the dispersion
of mankind, in the days of Peleg, is one and the same event,
as the migrations of the Scythians, in consequence of that
stupendous revolution ; that you are perfectly convinced the
human species is the growth of every clime.

And that the diversity of languages expressive of fears and
hopes, wantSj and desires, hath resulted from the original
variety of genera of mankind, I make no doubt of the very
few proofs for the refutation of this scheme about to be sub-
mitted, being satisfactory to your unprejudiced understanding,
proofs not to be opposed, but by miracle, mystery, and inspi-
ration, which, however potential in poetry |and the drama,
should have no weight in history.

From what source of antiquity, sacred as the writings of the

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Ixi

Hebrews are reverentially termed, or profane as the writings
of all other people are ridiculously called, this annotator derived
his information, I am at a loss to conceive, that all profane
authorities are opposed to his opinion is certain, nor can I dis-
cover in the sacred Scripture notwithstanding the great latitude
allowed to inspiration, any ground therefor. Unfortunately
for the cause of knowledge, those who undertake to expound
the composition of the Hebrews, are priests, who never com-
ment on the text, but on the many different readings and in-
terpretations of precursors of their order, dignified with the
title of saints, all of whom, let their ways be ever so various,
conduct us to one and the same gloomy labyrinth, where in a
putrid cavern lie concealed the filthy brood of miracle and
mystery, chained by the delicate finger of nice art, the guardians
profusely nourished by the hand of ignorance, that doth make
the meat whereon they gorge, whilst the poor dupe doth starve,
to which, wisdom in other times interdicted by the avengers fire
and sword, is in these days of clemency, liberality, and perfect
freedom of opinion, prevented only by loss of liberty, propertj',
health, and the jewel reputation, dearer than all ; for myself I
will adhere to the letter of the record, from which no considera-
tion shall induce, or compel me to swerve, always entertaining-
doubt and suspicion of evidence delivered enigmatically or con-
fusedly, proofs of lack of honesty or of understanding, charges
in no wise applicable to the text before us, which is plain
enough, and declare that " by the posterity of Japheth the son
of Noah, the isles of the Gentiles were divided, &c." by which
the bible commentators say the Hebrews meant, the countries
separated from the land of Canaan by the sea, and that the
Gentiles are the children of Japheth distinguished from the
descendants of Shern and Ham ; now I take leave to say such
is not the Hebrew meaning of the term Gentiles, the one only
and true signification in the Scythian language being, people
of another Gein, Genos, Genus, or race, and that such was
their acceptation of the word is apparent from the context,
which is more explicit than is usual with them, the sons o( Japh-
eth had divid.ed the lands ; of whom f Of the Gentiles; another

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race of man, distinct from the Scythian, the specific name of
whom was unknown to the Hebrews. Tlie tradition was per-
fect in the memoiy of the Scythian nations, of whom the
children of Israel was one, that Javan a son of Japheth^ bad
emigrated from Asia to the country of a stranger people, to
whom in ignorance of their national or tribal name, they ap-
plied the only suitable description, but which country we find
them invariably afterwards call the land of Javan, thus identi-
fying the land under its former, and latter inhabitants, surely
the words cannot be forced to the construction, that in the sons
o^Japhethd\\'\6\wg the lands of the Gentiles, they were to divide
their own lands amongst them, the expression being not niemly
absurd, but absolute nonsense, neither can it be forced to the
construction that the Gentiles were the posterity of any of the
sons of Japlieth for the same reason, because they were all of the
same race ; and in proof that the Hebrews applied the term ac-
cording to my interpretation, you find Jermxiah in the 7th
verse of his 4th chapter, describing all Judea as the land of the
Gentiles; why? because the Hebrews were so, with respect to
Nebu-chaddon-assur and the Assyrians, whom Jeremiah des-
cribed by the lion : " The lion is come up from his thicket, and
the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way, he is gone from his
place, to make thy land desolate, and thy cities shall be laid
waste Avithout an inhabitant.'' In the lOth verse of the 1st
chapter of Tobit we hear him calling the Assyrians by the
name of Gentiles, and in the 3d verse of his iSth chapter
we find them described in the like manner. And though the He-
brews would apply the epithet to any people not Scythian,
and would put the word in the mouth of another people in
describing the Scythians, they never did (till in times cen-
turies later than those of which I am now speaking, Avhen re-
ligion came to be considered a test of kindred superior to all
others,) use the term Gentile but as a signification of difference
of origin, as is manifest from Jeremiah, who calls the Hebrews,
Gentiles, in contradiction to the Assyrians, and from Tohit who
as one of the Hebrews, calls, the Assyrians, Gentiles. Num-
berless proofs to the same effect could be mentioned, that the

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Hebrews in ancient times considered all people as Gentiles,
Assyrians, Egyptians, or Europeans, who were not of the
Scythian race ; whilst to religion, at a very early period, the
term could have no allusion, seeing tliat the world, Scythians
and all, were in that sense Gentiles to the Hebrev/s, who, upon
principles of more sound policy, than superficial observers ima-
gine, separated themselves from the primitive doctrines and
practice, not of their race only, but framed a code of Ethereal
laws different from the fancies of all mankind.

Moreover ; to point out how entirely mistaken the bible com-
mentators are on this part of the subject, I have to direct your
attention to the passage where the Scythians are represented
as the children of Magog ; now Javan, not Magog, (as igno-
rantly translated) was acknowledged leader of the colony that
invaded Thrace, Macedon and Greece: and will our commen-
tator affirm that the tribes of Thrace, lUurike and Greece,
were not Scythians, if he doth, as indeed he hath, he has the
authority of all antiquity against Inm, lor I beg leave to remark
once more, and once for all, that all the sons of Japheth,
Japheth himself, and Noe his father, were Scythian chiefs, not
any one of them in particular, their race was the Scythian
race.

Having shewn satisfactorily, I am to hope, that the Gentiles
were not of the Scythian race, on the contrary that it was the
general name applied to the original inhabitants of Thrace, &c.
by the Hebrews, and by Eolus, because they were of a differ-
ent genus of the human species from the Scythians. Having
shewn that Javan, not Magog, was the leader of the colony
that migrated from Ardmenia to the isles of the Gentiles,
which colony were Scythians according to the concurrent tes-
timony of antiquity ; our subject leads us to surmount Cau-
casus, and enquire who the people were, that were found on
the western shore of the Tanais, when the Goths invaded
that quarter of Europe, who, according to our bible commen-
tator's were the descendants of Gomer, and had emigrated thi-
ther antecedently to their supposed brethren from iMagh-og,
against which fancy I purpose to offer objections that inay

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perhaps be deemed conclusive, which I should not consider
entitled to the small portion of attention I mean to pay to it ;
but that we know what deep root the prejudice has taken, and
the pains to nourish and fix the idea, bestowed by those whose
vast power and immense wealth are blended with the general
credit, given to their exclusive interpretations of a work beyond
their comprehension, or which they study to render still more
obscure.

As the Hebrews called the people of Thrace Gentiles, the
Goths gave the name of Geimarig, and Ceiltig to the people
west of Tanais, the Kimmerio and Kellikioi of the Greeks, the
Cimmerii and Celtae of the Romans ; it was in ignorance of
these people, the Goths applied to them a name purely des-
criptive of the climate and state of the country.

Would the Goths have been thus ignorant ? would they have
been at a loss for the tribal distinction of a nation of their own
race, preceding emigrators from one common stock ?

Herodotus relates that the utmost consternation pervaded
the Kimerioi, when they heard of the entrance of the Goths
into Europe. I ask would the children of Gomer have felt
dismay at the approach of an enemy ? would they have fled
from the presence of their very kindred } in what colours have
these Cimmerii been represented at this era ; timid receding
animals, differing but little from the other beasts of the forest,
not bold, adventuring warlike Scythians, daring and advancing
from long habit of rule and ascendancy, result of social com-
munity, and of institutions breathing the genuine essence of
the original unadulterated feodal system, now so debased and
misunderstood, a system that estimated man by his intrinsic
worth, a system that bound all the children of the national
family by the delicate, yet adamantine tye of tender love, in-
violable friendship, attachment of kindred, glory of race, all
tending to secure the mutual interest of each, and of the
whole, a system to which meanness of poverty, and meanness
of riches were equally unknown, which contemplated not
v^rretches, heirs to misery only, bartering, or forced to employ
their corporal strength for means of existence, to raise up

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mounds of privilege for a few, to the exclusion and ruin of the
many, themselves of the number, nor yet oppressors and
tyrants, without incurring the heaviest of all vengeance, the
abstraction of the confidence of the people from them, and a
suspicion of their descendants as offspring of traitors to the
commonwealth.

Such were the men, such the institutions of Scythian war-
riors, destructive weapons in their hands, at sight of whom
the defenceless Cimmerii and Celtae retired, leaving their lands
and woods and dens to the invader.

What one sentence in the store of Pagan antiquity to war-
rant the idea that the Cimmerii or Celtae, were emigrants from
Asia ? By what trace of tradition the most remote, of any
time when, of any route whereby, any tribe of Scythians, or of
Asiatics, entered these northern parts of Europe before the
Goths } on the contrary the universal voice of ancient days
harmonizes in declaring the Cimbri or Cimmerii, to be the
aboriginal people of all the regions from the Euxine to the
German Ocean, between the Baltic north, and the Rhine and
Ister south, a distinct genus of the human species, between
whom and the Scythians and Sarmatae, original Asiatic na-
tions, all ancient writers distinguished as determinately as
between Tatars and Egyptians, {b)

Besides, what answer is to be given to the total dissimilarity
of language between the Cimmerii and Celtae, another deno-
mination of these indigenous Europeans^ and that of the
Scythians and the Sarmatae. Were the Cimmerii or Celtae so
inventive as to frame a new^ vocabulary, and apply other names
to their circumscribed wants and desires ; moreover the tradi-
tions of the Cimmerii and Celtae are in direct contradictions to
the systems of moderns ; seeing that no memory was preserved
amongst them of their fathers having emigrated from any
other country, but were produced by the land whereon they
lived.

Having tried this opinion by Pagan authority, let us apply
to Holy-writ, there if you turn and turn and turn again, you
■will not only not find one syllable to warrant the idea, that
e

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any colony of the cUildren of Japheth had at any time emi-
grated liorth of Caucasus, regions of which the Hebrews knew
no more than they did of Terra del Fuego, or the Allaganny
mountains; but by perusing the 38th and 39th chapters of
the book of EzeJciel, you will be satisfied that the Hebrews had
no knowledge whatever of the Scythians led by Og^eis Ccan
into Media, about two score years before the writing of Ezckiely
who after the invariable practice of his nation, in describing the
irruption of Og-eis Ccan into Asia in the prophetic style,
tliough the event had occurred some years before, betrays his
total ignorance of the invaders, whom lie confounded with Og
the son of Japheth, chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal, indeed
of all Magh-Og, which comprehended Armenia and the adja-
cent countries ; and the dates of 640 with that of 2170, as
Cassiodorus and Jornandes did 1200 years afterwards, led
astray be Ezekiel. By reading tliese two chapters of Ezekiel
you will find that he supposed Og^lS Khan came from Iberia,
called by the Hebrews the ■' Land of T'ubal," the northern
country to which he alludes.

But supposing for an instant that in opposition to pagan
authority, and in absence of inspiration, the fancy was to be
indulged that such occurrences did happen as an universal
deluge, which depopulated the earth, and an emigration to
Europe, of a colony of Scythians antecedently to the invasion
of the Goths, unknown to their posterity, (who had no tradi-
tion of such an event) and to all the world besides. In what
manner are the Finns and Laplanders to be accounted for } an
ardent imagination highly sublimate from the fervour of
religious enthusiasm, overleaping all bounds, may transform
them into a branch of the stock of Ham, banished to the
frozen climate of the north of Europe, to expiate the impiety of
their forefathers, as the great body of his posterity was exiled
to the torrid zone of Afric ; monstrous Infatuation ! but that the
sons of Gomer, accustomed to the delightful districts of
Phrygia and Pontus, should expatriate themselves to the frozen
north is not to be credited ; what dire necessity could have
compelled them to a step so desperate ; was it want of room ?

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that could not be, there being a superabundance of range in
comfortable parts of the south of immense extent, so thinly
inhabited as to be overrun with forests, in times historically as-
certained, of a date later by two tliousand years, than these
creatures have been known to have been vegitating, meagre
vegitation ! on their dreary lands. Or shall we fancy that the
polar regions though now barely habitable, enjoyed a delicious
climate when the children of Gomer seated themselves thereon,
where their frames became accommodated to the mighty change,
and all the rigors of nature by slow and imperceptible degrees.
Or shall we conclude that these wretched mortals utterly un-
known to the Hebrews, and to a late period to Greeks or
RomanSj by whom they were considered but demi-human, the
link between man and monkey, were indigenous of their fright-
ful climate, and if a flood must be upheld by those who now
float buoyantly, and sport proudly, shewing their backs Dol-
phin-like, aye and their crests above the tide, but would be as
fishes out of water on an ebb, what if we say that the windows
of heaven that looked down upon the poor Lapones, and their
reindeer were frost locked, and the rains on Shinar did not
reach the frigid zone, the creatures of which remained un-
touched.

Should it be thoxight 1 have spoken with too much levity on
a grave subject, and that I have treated the sacred writings,
scripture, the writings, with an unbecoming freedom, I am
perfectly aware such is the answer that will be given to my
objection, whilst not a word of the text will be set forth ; but
that I may not be mistaken, I declare it is not of the writings
of the Hebrews I speak slightingly, but of the absurd com-
mentaries thereon, works of men with a pre-conceived scheme,
to which truth and reason are attempted to be made to bend,
though Josephus, to whose evidence deference should be paid,
hath expressly said, in speaking of the writings of Moses,

" Our legislator speaks some things wisely, but enigmati-
cally, and others under a decent allegory, but still explains
such things as required a direct explication, plainly and ex-

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And so "sensible was Josephus^ that a key was wanting to
the writings of Moses, that he promised to compose one, which
he either did not perform, or if he did, the work has not come
to us ; to supply the place of which, innumerable attempts
have been made, which have served, in my opinion, but to
disfigure a most venerable and curious relic of the antique
world.

This opinion being now reduced to a similarity, fancied to
be discovered between Cimmerii and Gomerii, I beg leave to
strike this weak and only prop from under it, by asserting
that the term Cimmerii, applied by the Goths to all the peo-
ple westward of Tanais, hath no more affinity to Gomeri, or
to Kumero, than winter hath to the ocean, or a valley ; the
truth of which assertion I will prove when I come to speak of
the just etymology of the names of all the rivers, plains,
mountains, and people in all the countries colonized by the
Scythian race.

SECTION IV.

These parts of the subject discussed, I shall proceed to
state the fourth and last opinion :

" That the Scythian Goths, and the Cimmerii, Cimbri, or
Germanni, were the same people."

Nothing is more easy than for a recluse, shut up from the
ways and haunts of man, to trace in his closet, migrations of
waniors, whose difficulties, though great, oftimes insurmount-
able, he can with wondrous facility remove ; but after he hath
framed his system, much to his own satisfaction, there arises
a question reasonably asked by those who are to exercise
their judgment thereon, From what source hath the modern
projector drawn his information ? To which the answer must
be — From the testimony of men of ancient days. Of these,
according to received opinion, Moses, the reputed author of
Genesis, stands first, the passage from whose writings hath
been already stated and considered, wherefrom you must be
convinced that the Hebrews of his times, and down to those
of Ezekiel, at all events, knew of no emigrations of the Scy-

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thians westward, save of Javan to the Isles of the Gentiles,
and of various detachments from the coast of Phoenicia, Asia
Minor, and Greece, to the Isles of Elisha, in the Archipelago,
and that they were, down to the last moment of their nation-
al existence, as utterly ignorant of all the northern and west-
tern parts of Europe, as of Iceland, and of St. Domingo, as
their writings testify ; from this sacred fountain then, though
the text be derived, it is plain no other intelligence is to be
had, nor indeed is any farther pretended to be drawn. It
therefore becomes necessary to have recourse to Pagans ; and
here speaking for myself, I must declare my surprise and
mortification at the disappointments I have experienced, on
finding nearly all they have delivered, serve but to expose
their want of genuine information on the subject now before
us.

With what satiRfartinn ran the authority be appealed to
of men, who are not only diametrically opposed to each other,
and frequently at variance with themselves in opinion, but
detected in gross and palpable error on vital points, in matters
of fact.

If we consult Herodotus^ who hath written on this very
branch of the Scythian family, what confidence can be placed
in the relations of a man, who speaks after this manner, *' The
Greeks of Pontus speak of the Scythians thus, ' Hercules,
when he was driving away the heifers of Geryon, came to this
region, then a desert ; this Geryon lived beyond Pontus, on
an island called by the Greeks, Erytheia, near Gades, situated
in the ocean beyond the pillars of Hercules ;"" and in the de-
scription of a country he imagines Scythia spreads Scythians
over all the north of Europe, to the shores of an ideal Scythic
ocean.

In 200 years after him, we learn, from Apollonius Rhodius,
that " the Argonauts, on their return homeward, passed from
the Euxine, up the Ister, into the Baltic, from thence, into
the Eridanus, by a branch of which they entered the Roone,
an arm of which would have carried them west to the great

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ocean, had not Juno cried to them from the Hercynian forest
in Germany !"

Polybius, about 100 years after Apollo7iius, says, " All the
country between the Tanais and Narbonne, to the north, is un-
known to us, till by minute investigation, we learn somewhat
thereof; therefore they who write or speak otherwise, are ig-
norant ov fabulists" and this frank declaration embraces the
whole of Germany and Scandinavia, those very coiDtries of
which I now treat.

If we look to Strabo for instruction, who lived 140 years
later than Polybius, what rehance can be had on a writer, who
at one time calls the Sarmatae a tribe of the Scythian race, at
another time says they are not, who states, as matters of fact,
that the Iberi of Asia emigrated from Spain to Iberia, and the
Cimmerii from the western ocean to the Euxine ; and though
a native of Capadocia, actually tlmnght thnt the Caspian sea
was a gulph of the northern ocean ?

Should we direct our eye to Pliny^ for light on our subject,
unhappily Pliny was himself bewildered in obscurity as dense
as Cimmerian darkness could involve him, a personification of
confusion methodized and confounding. We hear him speak-
ing of a Scythic ocean, of an island Raunonia opposite to, and
one day's sail from Scythia, of an island Scandinavia, of un-
discovered greatness, situated in the bay Codanus, formed by
the vast range of the Soevo mountains equal to the Riphean,
and of an island Baltia, of immense size, three days sail fi'om
the coasts of the Scythians ;" he tells of one nation with the
feet of horses, and of another with ears, that served for
clothing.

Floundering after this manner, from one absurdity and mis-
representation to another, he says, " At the end of the Ri-
phean mountains, we have reports of Aremphsei, a nation not
dissimilar to the Hyperborei, beyond whom, on the east, are
Scythae, Cimmerii, Cisanthi, Georgii, and Amazons ; these
reach to the Caspian and Hyrcanian sea, which bursts out of
die Scythic ocean, into the back parts of Asia, rushing in by
narrow mouths of great length." It is but justice to the me-

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mory of Pliny, to add, that he delivers no part of this Rho-
domontade from his own knowledge. The part of his work
from which I have selected the foregoing, contains not more
than tliree score lines, in which short space he hath quoted
Timoeus, Hecatccus, Philemon, Zenophon of Lampsicus, Py-
theas, and Agrippa, wherefrom we are to estimate the testi-
mony of these ancients ; the remainder of his vouchers being
anonymously expressed by the terms, *' it is said ;" " uncertain
fame ;" " is spoken of;"" " some relate ;" " in opinion ;" " by
conjecture ;" " some place ;" " zee have reports ;" these are
but small samples of the ignorance of the ancients, who anx-
ious for information, grasping at fame for universal knowledge,
overlooked particulars, and confiding too much in the relations
of travellers, who amused them with marvels, were led to
give descriptions of places and nations, not warranted by truth,
tlie falsehood of which, the experience of every day exposeth
more and more. But their error arising from over-zeal to en-
rich the store of human knowledge, is venial, compared with
the practices of writers of modern days, who continue to build
systems on these condemned foundations, and to bend, twist,
and distort such blemished testimony, to compliance with their
pre-conceived schemes, collecting, lumping the mass, then
weighing proportions, and framing a plan on the preponderance,
after the manner of Anglo Irish juries, who submit their oath
to the arbitrament of chance, (c)

Whilst truth hath obliged me to be thus severe in my ani-
madversions on the illustrious dead, I feel myself bound also
to declare, that to their extreme ignorance of geography, much
of their misstatement, and of the consequent misconception of
moderns, are ascribable, knowing that that mighty race of
mankind, from whom they themselves originated, were spread
over the north of Asia as far as known to them ; i\\ey fancied
the Scythian Goths were also scattered over the north of
Europe, an idea which a small portion of attention rectifies,
the corrective, sovereign and complete, on prejudice giving
way to the operation, of merely placing the globe in its true
position, and letting north be north, east be east; whereas

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with Herodotus and nearly all his successors, the east was their
north ; whereby it came to pass, that Scandinavia was Scythia,
the Baltic sea an island in the Scythian ocean, beneath whiclj
they placed a vast region inhabited by various tribes of abori-
gina\ people to whom the first Scythian invaders had origin-
ally given the name of Geimarig and Ceiltig, changed by the
Greeks to Kimmeroi and Kelikoi ; by the Romans to Cimmerii
and CeltzB. To which immense tract from the Chronus to the
Ocean west, and from the Baltic north, to the Rhine and Ister
south, was applied in latter times on somewhat better acquaint-
ance, the general name of Germania, occupied by the multi-
tudinous nations. Who these people were at the era of the
birth of Christ, whether children of Gomer the Scythian,
or Scythian Goths who had displaced the former occu-
piers, or aborigines of their native soil, being the point your
judgment is now callerl on to decide ? In support of which
second opinion a testimony is adduced by a modern writer,
supposed to be conclusive, and as it is the only evidence
that can be brought, however remotely, to bear on the sub-
ject, it will be necessary to state and examine it, " Scytharum
nomen usquequaque transit in Sarmatas atque Ger^nanas,
nee aUiis prisca ilia duravit appellatio, quam qui, extremi
gentium harum ignoti prope caeteris mortaUbus degunf"
" The name of Scythians is every where changed to that of
Sarmatas and Germans, nor has that ancient appellation conti-
nued, save to the most distant of these two nations, who live
almost unknown to other mortals ;" no doubt you will smile
on hearing that Pliny is the man who thus speaks, of which I
shall say no more, but that 1 consider this evidence only as an
additional proof of his ignorance, whilst I cannot but express
my astonishment at any person laying stress thereon, more
particularly the gentleman who introduces his author and his
sentence with a solemnity altogether laughable, and who has
laboured through a long dissertation, and laboured successfully
to prove the distinction between the Scythians and Sarmataj ;
had it been a part of the system his fancy had formed, this
text might have been applied to the proof that the Sarmataa

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were Scythians also, and did we not know how very frequently
men who have a favourite point to carry, are constrained to
reject one part of a testimony, whilst they adopt the other, a
considerable degree of surprise must be excited at hearing a
gentleman of very wide and deep research, concluding that the
Germanni were Scythai, on the authority of Pliny, did we
not also hear him pouring forth an eulogium on him for his
above mentioned description of the regions of which we are
now treating, the perusal of which ought rather methinks, have
produced the effect of slighting his evidence on every point
connected with the subject, and of accounting this amongst
the multitudinous errors conceived by the Romans of the
Germanic nations, in the time of Pliny, a fact to which their
descriptions thereof bear witness. The truth is, the Caledo-
nian had a very favourite opinion of his own to establish,
which was not to be done without making the Peucini who
were Germans, to be Scythian Goths ; was I not enabled to
give them a just claim to as high an honour, I should feel
pain at wounding the pride he nobly takes in the virtues, and
the glory of his forefathers, and in this I hope, truth will
justify me, though 1 must shew that the Germanni are not
Scythas, but aborigines of their own lands, the proof of which
will be found in the following brief relation of historic facts,
on testimony incontrovertible.

By the faint and glimmering light of antiquity, I have
attended the steps of the Scythians from the planes of Shinaar
within lath-do-cal, to the hills of Ardmionn, whither they
fled with Noe their chief, seated themselves on the Araxes at
a time answering to 2246 years before the Christian era, and
are known in the writings of ancient days by the name of
Noemades, from whom a colony separated themselves in 2170,
under the conduct of laban, (Javan) and moving westward
passed the Bosphorus into Thrace, as heretofore shewn ; in
six-score years from which time, another swarm rose from the
parent stock of Ardmionn, and surmounting the summits of
Caucasus, lighted at the northern foot thereof, between the
debouches of the mighty waters of the Rha and Tanais, into

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the Caspian and the Euxine seas, marked as you see on the
chart, " The parental seat of the Goths ;" here it becomes neces-
sary to caution you against being led astray by a similarity of
sounds, Euphonias, and Greek or Roman terminations, which
have so disfigured the primitive language, that it is only by the
greatest care and pi-ecision it can be identified in divers
instances. You will please to observe the distinction here of
Scythians and Goths, which latter, though a branch of the
Scythian race, are not to be mistaken for Parental" Scythians.
How long the Goths remained east of the Tanais doth not ap-
pear as I know of ; whenever their new seats became too cir-
cumscribed for their manners and institutions, they broke from
their unsteady mooring, and steering westward, a colony crossed
the Tanais, and invaded the lands of a stranger people, to whom,
from ignorance of their specific denomination, they gave the
general name of Geimarig and Ciltig, the Cimmerii and Celtae
of the Romans ; the first applied to their frozen climate, the
latter to their being hidden and concealed, whilst they them-
selves assumed the specific name of Gath or Goth, merely from
the circumstance of their having changed their weapons of war,
from the bozo and sling tiieir ancient arms, for the long spear-,
nor let it be imagined that these were the only tribe of the
Scythian family that were called by this name ; turn to the 4th
verse of the iTth chapter of the first book of Samuel of the
Hebrews, and you will find,

" That there went out a champion from the camp of the
Phihstines named Goliath of Gath.

Verse 7. "And the staff of his spear was like the weaver's
beam," from which same practice of using spears, a tribe of the
Scythians of Philistia obtained the same name.

On the invasion of the lands of the Cimmerii by this colony
of the Scythian Goths, a distinction arose between those who re-
mained east of Tanais, and the invaders, when the parents had the
name of Ostro Goths, and the emigrating colony that of Visi
Goths ; from whom they received these appellations, or at
what era is not to be determined, as the terms Ostro and Visi
are neither ancient, nor modern Scythic, the Visi Goths ad-

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vanced westward to the Tyras ; and having occupied all the
lands between that river and die Tanais, a colony passed the
Tyras, whereupon another tribal distinction arose, the emigrants
having assumed the specific name of Getse. These spread
themselves westward to the Taobiscus, southward to the Ister,
those of the Getae who took the south and south western di-
rection, being distinguished by the name of Deas-e, the integral
tribe being the Galoctophagi of Homer, the Getas of more
modern times, the Daci being a portion of the Getae, the
former meaning southern, the latter, livers on milk, neither
more nor less.

Having now traced these various tribes from the parent seat
of the Goths to the Ister south, and west to the Taobis-
cus, permit me to call your attention to another Asiatic
people, who also advanced into this quarter of Europe, I mean
the Sarmatae. At what era they commenced their progress, I
know of no means of determining positively, though it certainly
was considerably after the march of the Goths, from the circum-
stance ot their direction being always northward, which was
owing to all the country southward, being occupied by a warlike
people, which the defenceless Kimmerioi or Keltokoi of these
parts at this era were not. Be that as it may, northward they
did invariably steer, till they touched that part of the Baltic
which formerly bore their name, their left bordering on the
right of the Getse, between whom and them there seems to
have at all times subsisted a friendship so strict, an alliance so
close, that some few ancient writers thought they were a tribe
of the Scythian race, whilst the great majority have dis-
tinguished between them as decidedly, as between Scythians,
and Kimmerioi, in confirmation of which latter opinion appears
the Sclavonian language, an evidence not to be shaken by any
of those subtle plausible conjectui-es and hypothetical argu-
mentation, with which system builders are so abundantly
stored.

An inquiry into the different specific tribes into which the
Sarmatae split, being irrelevant to our present purpose, let it
suffice to say of them, that the main body advanced no farther

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west than the Cronus, though some few detached parties did
minde with the Basternae, between that river and the Vistula.
That thev appear to have been granted portions of land even in
the heart of the country of Scvths as horse auxiharies, as the
name of Jazyges denotes ; that they are not of the pos-
terity of Mcshech a son of Japheth as bible commentators as-
sert : and that tlieir descendants are at this day to be found in
the Russian empire, including its limb of lately ravished Poland,
and a small dirtrict between the Danube and the Save, (cf) But
I prophesy without pretending to any special revelation, that
ere one other century shall roll away, the plains of Europe will
be DX>rcred to saturation with the Wood of cowardly corrupting
t%Tant5. and of lache corrupted slaves, poured out by the semi-
barbarous hand of the Sarmatae. As I am in the prophetic
mode I will add, India will feel the weight of their foot, the
strength of their arm. Did not Hezekiah throw open the gates
of the bouse of the king, and of the temple of the Lord, and
shew the riches thereof unto the servants of the king of
Babylon,

Did not the king of Babylon know that Jerusalem possessed
all its wealth bv means of its commerce with Ophir and Havi-
lah, making silver and gold as plenty as stones in that city ?

And what said haiah, the priest untb Hezekiah} what said
these men ? and whence came they unto thee ?

And Hezekiah said, " They are come from a far country,
even from Babylon/'

And he said, " What have they seen in thine house .'"

And Hezekiah answered, " All the things that are in my
house have they seen, there is nothing among my treasures
that I have not shown them.''

And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah^ " Hear the word of the
Lord.''

'■ Behold the dav's come, that all that is in thine house, and
that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day,
shall be carried into Babylon, nothing shall be left said the
Lordy

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And Hezekiah answered unto Isaiah, in the genuine style
of royalty, since kings have descended from the proud station
of chiefs of the people, to the contemptible office of puppets
of a faction.

" Grood is the word which thou hast spoken. It is not good
if peace and truth be in my ways."

Let tyrants enjoy their own lives, if such a mode of life as
theirs is to be called enjoyment, what reg£u:d have they for
times to come.

These, the Scythian and Sarmatse, are the only Asiatic
people who penetrated into this quarter of Europe, down to
the period to which I have confined this demonstration, how
far is the object of our research.

If you will cast your eye on the chart, you will perceive a
line from the gulph of Finnland, through imaginary moun-
tains, which yet had a fancied position, and the name Riphoean,
eastward to the north of the Caspian, all northward of that
line, was Hyper-borealis ; terra incognita to the ancients, of
which something was to be said, and all was feigned. You
see Gothia Paren talis between the Rha and Tanais, which
came to be distinguished as the seat of the Ostro-Goths, on the
invasion of Europe by a colony of these Scythian Goths.
North of their country, you observe east of the Rha, the
Magh-Saigiote ; called by the Grecians Massagetae, which has
led many a one into a great error, as if they were a part of
the Getae, between which two names there is not the least
aflSmity. Beyond the Magh-Saigiote you see the Tuath-
Saigiote, called by the Greeks Thyssa-Getae. These two
tribes belong not to the Gothic branch, but are members of
the ancient Scythian race on their original lands. You mark
the Visi-Goths as distinguished from Ostro-Goths, between the
Tanais and the Tyras, on the banks of which river was a tribe
that obtained the specific denomination of Tereis-Getae, cor-
rupted by the Greeks to Thyra Getae ; from the borders of
which tribe you see the Getas north, touching the Sarmatae,
and south on the banks of the Ister ; the country of these last
c^led Deas-ia, corrupted to Dacia, and the people to Dad,

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the signification of which is merely Southern ; in which distinct
name is to be found the proof conclusive, you may remember
me to have promised, in its proper time and place, that the Scy-
thians of Thrace, &c. did not emanate from the Goths, be-
cause, had such been the case, it is not possible that they could
have called a tribe, north of the Ister, south ; this tribe called
Daci, being of the Getae, who were Goths, having had the spe-
cific name of Daci, merely from their southern position, which
was north of the Thracians. If it be said there was a tribe of
Getae in Thrace, so there was, for the same reason that this
tribe of Goths^were distinguished as Geat-e, from their habit
of living on milk and curd as Galeact denotes, and they were
the Galactophagi of the Greeks in Homer's time ; besides, if
there were milk eaters in Thrace, it arose from a distinction be-
tween them and another tribe of Thracians called Meas-i,
which signifies acorn eaters ; and what doth this prove but ex-
traction from one common stock, the Scythian, though each
took a different route. There might have been Goths also in
Thrace, if any tribe of that nation had adopted the use of the
long spear; should these distinguishing denominations be con-
sidered whimsical and ridiculous in these our modern times, a
man versed in the history of the antique world knows, that
nothing was more usual than for tribes to assume, or obtain,
specific appellations from very trivial causes, too numerous to
notice in this place.

Having now given the correct ancient names which shall be
collated with the Greek and Roman names, Euphoniae gratia,
and with the modern names in Ignorantia, of all the tribes of
the Gothic family from the Rha, to the Ister south, and to the
Theyas west, let me repeat that on their invasion of Euro^De,
the Goths called the stranger people by the general names of
Germar'g and Ceiltig, for the reason before assigned ; which
names as they advanced, they continued to apply to the people
before them immersed in the depths of forests, for the same
purpose, and by which all the Europeans from the Tanais to
the German Ocean were called {e) Now whether the Gei-
marig or Ceiltig mixed with the Goths, or to what extent, or

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fled into Terra incognita, or to their brethren in the northern
Peninsula of the Euxine, or in the western islands of the Ister,
whom history records io have been unmolested by the Scy-
thians, or whether the Europeans fled before the invaders, I
know not ; nor any means of being informed farther than from
Herodotus, who says, " when the Scythians expelled the Cim-
merians, these last fled to the Asiatic Chersonese, where the
Greek city Synope stands ;" but it doth appear that at a time
corresponding with about 630 or 640 before Christ, upon what
provocation is not mentioned, the Goths under the command of
Og, called Oghus khan corrupted from the true original Og-eis-
Ceann, rose up against the Kimmerioi hitherto undisturbed,
who escaped over Caucasus, whither they were pursued by the
Goths who invaded Media, exercised a prcedatory supremacy
over the Assyrian nations of Western A sia for eight and twenty
years, the same multitudinous host against whom Ezekiel
howled for not acknowledging kindred with the tribes of Israel,
who had separated themselves from all the world, the same,
whon> Ezekiel describes, " clothed with all manner of armour,
even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords;" the multitudes oy the hanbstaves of
■WHOSE SPEARS, whosc sliields and bucklers, bows and arrows,
were to serve the Israelites for firing during seven years. The
same whom Ezekiel prophesying half a century aj\er the fact,
supposed to hate come from Armenia and Iberia, utterly igno-
rant (notwithstanding his prophetic illuminations) of the
country from whence Og and his multitudes had come.
Into history I must not enter; with the wars of these peo-
ple widi Cyrus, Darius, or Alexander, our subject is not apt,
therefore 1 shall rapidly haste'n to my conclusion, and say that
the Scythian Gothic Daci advaiiced south to the Ister, south-
ward of whom were Scythian Thracians, Og-eag-eis, and
westward to the waters of Taois, Theyss, or l^aoi-b-isc, on
the far side of which, were the Scythian Panonian Og-eag-eis ;
and I do confidently assert, that beyond that barrier the
Gothic tribes of the Scythian race advanced not one step, nor
did the tribes of lilurike transgress the Ister nor the Rhsetian

IXXX DEMONSTRATION.

Alps, and I will add, moreover, that all the nations from the
Chronus northward, and from the Ister west, to the German
ocean, between the Baltic and the Ister, and the Rhine, were
Aborigines of their own soil, neither Scythians from Gomer,
nor from Magog, nor Sarmatae from Meshech ; risum teneatis f
nor any other Sarmatae, but a pure original people, who con-
ceived their forefathers to have been sprung from the elements
of that their primeval land, of whose removal from any other
country, there was not amongst them a trace the most faint,
a tradition the most remote, but the most firm conviction to
the contrary. This will be thought a bold assertion by those
who have considered this question determined in a manner the
very reverse ; at all events, that it hath not been satisfactorily
determined, is to be gathered from the fact that up to these
very days the reverse is attempted with pertinacity, and infi-
nity of argumentation to me maintained, insomuch, that had
I not evidence of the first order as to historic veracity, and
testimony not to be shaken, the evidence of language, I should,
notwithstanding my own conviction, have shrunk from an
avowal so very confident and peremptory ; which, founded as
I am, I feel no hesitation, nay, I feel it my duty to make, in
the cause of hterature and of truth.

To confirm my assertion, I might content myself with the
authority of Orosius, who, in marking the positions of the
Scythian Goths, says, " Alania est in Medio ^ Dacia ubi et
Gothia, deinde Gerynania," which saith, as plainly as words
can, that Alania was between the Scythians eastward, and
Dacia, which was also a Scythian Gothic nation westward ;
there ended the Scythians, from whence out was Germany, a
distinct country, not Scythia. So Ammianus MarcelUnuSy
" Metus totius Gothiae Thracias perrumpeatis," an expres-
sion used, in conformity with the general acceptation of anti-
quity, that Thracia, of which Mesia was but a sub-denomina-
tion, extended from the Euxine to the junction of the Save, a
very little farther westward than which, the Taois, the boun-
dary of Dacia, falls into the Ister, whilst it is additional proof,

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each other as different nations, though both were Scythians.
When Herodotus says that the Ister is the most considerable
river of Scythia, he is accurately correct ; he knew the Scy
thian Goths were on the north as far as the Tobiscus, and
that the Scythian Thracians were on the south of that river ;
and though he fancied the country which he properly called
Scythia, was in the northernmost parts of Europe, because its
position was north from Greece, yet he truly says the Ister
was the largest river of Scythia, which expression cannot by
any violence be forced to bear the construction, that all the
Ister flowed through Scythia, in which case, according to his
misconception, he must have called all Gaul Scythia also.
Nay, Pliny himself can be produced in proof of what his
own opinion was as to the two countries of Scythia and Ger-
mania ; for let the ancients have committed what geographical
errors they may, they never mistook between Asiatics and
Europeans. All the Romans knew that the general name of
all the nations from the Euxine to the German Ocean, had
originally been Cimmerii or Cimbri, which had very lately,
not long antecedently to the time of Pliny, on better acquaint-
ance of the tribes from the Chronus westward, been changed
to Germanni ; and doth not Pliny, in giving the due positions
of the Scythian tribes, say, " Germania Scythiae contermina,"
which expression he would not have used, had he not known,
that the Scythians and the Cimmerii or Germanni, were a dif-.
ferent people. I might rest confidently upon the concurrent
testimony of the ancients, as to their clear and explicit dis-
tinction between the invaders and the invaded ; I might appeal
with complacency to the store of antiquity, I do appeal there-
to, satisfied to be decided by even one sentence declaratoiy of
the time when any tribe of Scythians passed the Sarmatae, and
penetrated to the Baltic, or that they ever transgressed the
Danube, till the Scythian Romans commenced their operations
against the Germannic nations. Yet, notwithstanding the ex-
pressed evidence, or the silence of the ancients, the fact con-
tinually stares us in the face, that systems, founded upon iso-
f

IxXXii DEMONSTEATION.

lated, unconnected passages, of ancient men, who, as P{%-
bitis ingenuously declares, are to be considered ignorants and
fabulists, continue to be framed, aiming at proof, some that
the Cimmerians, children of Gomer, were expelled from these
parts by the children of Magog, the father of the Scythians,
others that the Cimmerii are Scythians who expelled the pre-
ceding inhabitants from these regions whereon they seated
themselves ; therefore I will place this question beyond the
reach of conjectural sportiveness. It is a common place ex-
pression that truth dispels the mists of falsehood, trite as the ob-
servation is, it is not altogether certain, we know by severe and
very woeful experience that the effects of numberless falsehoods
established, even for a short while, have not been counteracted
for times and times, some not for ages, the longer established,
and particularly if the private interest of bodies of men are
in any wise connected therewith, the greater the difficulty in
removing them, the more unquestionable the testimony which
will be required for their final overthrow, which testimony I
will with your good leave now produce ; that of a man whose
penetration and sufficiency are admitted by all the world, how
much, how entirely to be rehed on in the very act of giving
the credit of his great name to a digested treatise on a people,
and a country in whose immediate neighbourhood he had re-
sided for years, in a public capacity, w herefrom he had the
best opportunities of collecting the most authentic materials
for his work ? a man whose fame can derive no additional
lustre from any tribute I may feel disposed to pay to his me-
mory. You are aware that the witness I am about to call is
Tacittis, who in a work intitled, a treatise on the situation,
customs and people of Germany, thus delivers himself

" The whole of Germany is thus bounded, it is separated
from Gaul, Raetia and Panonia, by the rivers Rhine and Da-
nube, from Sarmatia and Dacia by mutual fear, or by high
mountains, the rest is encompassed by the ocean." Having
delineated the position of the country, he proceeds to inform
us of the people, of whom he thus commences his account.
" Tlie Germans, I am apt to beUeve, derive their origins from

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no other people, and are in no wise mixed with different na-
tions arriving amongst them." And in proof that these words
were not uttered unadvisedly, or carelessly, after mentioning
some few of their manners and customs, he repeats his asser-
tion with this remarkable addition, " For myself I concur in
opinion with those who suppose the people of Germany never
mingled by intermarriage with other nations,— but have re-
mained a people pure, independent, and resembling none but
themselves ; hence amongst a multitude so vast, the same make
and form is found in all, eyes stern and blue, yellow hair, and
huge bodies." He then describes their manners, customs and
religion, and in a style very different from all his precursors,
arranges the situation of each particular nation by its specific
name, till he arrives at the Vistula, on passing wh;ch river he
meets the Peucinians, of whom he says, " Whether amongst the
Sarmatae or the Germans, I ought to account the Peucini-
ans, Venedians and Fennians, is what I cannot determine ;"
but on the instant he retracts his doubt with respect to the
Peucinians, and says, " The Peucinians, whom some call
Basternse, speak the same language as the Germans, use the
same attire, build like them, and live like them, in that filth
and sloth so common to all." From all which it clearly ap-
pears that the Sarmatae, the Daci, and the Germanni were
three separate and distinct people, the limits of whose respec-
tive countries, in the time of Tacitus, were accurately ascer-
tained. If the Daci and the Germanni were the same people,
would their lands be bounded by mutual fear ? no, the people
would be cemented by mutual affection. If you attach any
value to the evidence of Tacitus, you must be convinced that
the Germanni were a distinct people, not mixed even by in-
termarriages with any other; and for this he gives a reason,
solid and weighty, a marked difference in their features and
formation from other people, a criterion, though now a days
difficult to judge by, yet not entirely worn out, was in the
days of Tacitus very visible, no doubt : again, in speaking of
the Peucinians, What reason doth he assign for ranking them
amongst the nations of Germanni ? the most valid of all reason,

FxXXiv DEMONSTRATION.

their using the same speech with them. Of the Peuciniaiis he
entertains a momentary doubt ; What is the doubt ? whether
they were Germans or Sannatae ; but whether they were Ger-
mans, or Scythians, Goths, Gette, or Daci, never entered
into his contemplation ; that they were not of the Scythian
race was beyond doubt or hesitation.

It may be thought that proof is yet wanting to shew the
opinion of the ancients regarding the Germanni, and that they
were the same identical people as the Cimmcrii, or Cimbri.
Fortunately, that proof is also substantially afforded by this
same great writer, who says, " It was in the 640th year of
Rome, when the first mention was made of the arms of the
Cimbrians ; if we count from that time, ,to the second consul-
ship of Trajan, the interval comprehends 210 years, so long
have we been conquering Germany. In a course of time so
vast, many have been the blows and disasters on both sides ;
neither from the Samnites, nor the Carthaginians, nor from
both Spains, nor from all the nations of Gaul, have we re-
received more frequent checks and alarms ; nor even from the
Parthians, so much more vigorous and invincible is the liberty
of the Germans, than the monarchy of the Arsacides. In
fact, what hath the power of the east to allege to our dishonor
but the fall of Crassus ; that power which was itself overthrown
and humbled by Ventidius, with the death of their mighty king
Pacorus; but by the Germans, the Roman people have lost
five armies, all commanded by consuls, all routed or taken.
By the Germans, the Emperor Augustus was bereft of Varus
and three entire legions : nor zcithout difficulty and loss of men
were they defeated bif Cuius Marius in Italy, by the deified
Julius in Gaul, by Drusus, Tiberius, or Germanicus, in their
native territories. Shortly after which, the mighty menaces of
Caligula against them ended in derision and mockery ; thence
forward they continued quiet, till taking advantage of our do-
mestic division, and civil wars, they stormed, and seized the
winter quarters of the legions, and aimed at the dominion of
Gaul, from whence they were once more repulsed, and in the

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IXXXY

limes preceding the present, we gained a triumph over them
rather than a victory."

Every one knows that the original name given to all the
Aborigines, from the Tanais to the German Ocean, south of the
Bakic, ^vas that of Kimmerioi or Kimbroi, till on better ac-
quaintance by long residence on the borders of the Chronus
and the Ister, the Scythians, and from thence the Greeks and
Romans, came to the knowledge of their specific tribal denomi-
nations, and the very ancient name of Cimbri was confined
only to one nation, which had dwindled from a state of import-
ance to the condition of a "parra civitas''' in the north western
quarter of Germany, and was invaded, not by Scandinavian
Scythians, but by Scandinavian Aborigines, (which irruption
is represented by the weak but virtuous Plutarch as a flood of
the ocean, that overspread their lands, like unto the deluges
of Noah, Ogyges and Deucalion,) who expelled them from
their ancient seats, whereupon they passed the Rhine, and
after straying here and there in quest of a settlement, turned
their faces towards Italy, where they were extirpated by Ma-
riusy " not without difficulty and loss of men,'" about a century
before Christ, at rchich time the whole people, afterxvards called
Germanni, were known to the Romans by no name but that of
Cimbri, by which appellation Tacitus commences his eulogium
on this people, which he continues, and concludes by the name
of Germanni, universally applied to them by the Romans in
his days. In the 2 10 years that intervened between the date
of the overthrow of the Cimbri by Marius, and of the complete
conquest of the Germanni, the alteration of the names of the
people, and of the country had taken place amongst the Ro-
mans. Whatever people the Ci mbri were in the time of Ma-
rius, the same were the Germ ani in the time of Tacitus;
they are one and the same people to whom, as one race, he as-
cribes the glory of their achievements, the identity preserved
with accuracy and fidelity. " By the Germanni, tlie Emperor
Augustus was bereft of Varus and three entire legions, nor
without difficulty or loss of men were thei/ defeated by Caius
Marius in Italy, by the deified Julius in Gaul, by Drusiis,

IxXXVi DEMONSTRATION.

Tiberius or Geimanictis, on their native soil," no words can be
more clear, more full and explicit. And as the limits of Ger-
many are pointed out, so are we perfectly informed of the ac-
quisitions of the Goths from the Euxine south and westward,
which were wrested from the Getae by Trajan 103 after Christ,
and which we find bounded by the Euxine east, the Tyras
north, the Danube south, and the Theyss, or Tobiscus,
west ; terminating precisely at the farthest boundary of these
northern Scythians on the west, as described by Tacitus.

Though farther proof might well be deemed a work of super-
erogation, I cannot refrain from producing in this place, though
somewhat out of time, another evidence, allowed by all mankind
to be the surest criterion whereby to ascertain the original of na-
tions, so sure, just and unerring as to be reduced in various lan-
guages to an aphorism, as, " Linguarum cognatio, cognationis
gentium precipuum, certissimumque argumentumest." I will go
farther and say, that identity of language admits of no argument
of identity of people, it is beyond argument, it is an axiom. Now
I have examined the name of every nation, place, land, seas, rivers,
mountains, hills and dales, within ancient Germany, every one
of which 1 have analized with my utmost skill ; I have touched
the present German language with a Scythian tongue, and I can-
not discover the slightest resemblance between the Scythians
and Germans ; and in truth this total dissimilitude is the very
best cause that can be assigned for the havoc that the present
inhabitants of Britain, descendants of the Peucini, Belgse,
Jutes, Saxons and Angles, and Normans, make of the Scy-
thian, and every other language of antiquity kindred thereunto,
so inveterate the hostility between the Scythian and the Ger-
man languages, instead of being allied.

There is one expression used by moderns, which may seem to
denote some trace of affinity between the Scythians and the
Germanni, it is the term Goth applied to both nations, on which
head 1 beg leave to observe, that if any people or tribe of Cim-
merii or Germanni adopted the long spear of the Scythian
Goths, they might from that circumstance obtain the name of
Goth, but as to origin, one might with equal propriety say, that

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a regiment of Welchmen who bore lances the same as the Poles
use, were Tatars ; besides, whenever the Goths are spoken of
they are generally distinguished by the Scythian Goths and
German Goths.

And now having tried this question by every proof that can
be adduced, let me ask the German people, and all those des-
cended from them, will they hesitate to decide with Tacitus that
they are an aboriginal race pure, unmixed. When this great
historian could draw such a picture of a people, with whose des-
truction his soul felt delight, how grand must they have appeared
in his sight to have been the theme of such panegyric ? When
it is considered that valour and military prowess constituted
the most splendid virtues at the time of the above description ;
When it is recollected that the portrait is drawn by the
masterly pencil of an enemy, whose mind was so fraught with
malevolence against them, that what with his zeal for his own
country, and his rancour towards Germany for the many shocks
the Germanni had given ; the many heavy blows they had in-
flicted on the Romans ; he hath been carried away to the ut-
terance of sentiments so unphilosophical, barbarous, and inhu-
man, as to endanger his high reputation, save as the elegant
writer, and faithful annalist, I would ask what fairer origin do
their children covet ? From what purer fountain do they wish
their blood to flow ? O that the Anglo-Saxons had imitated
the virtues, instead of tarnishing the true glory of their fore-
fathers, that they had persisted in their contempt of gold and
silver, that they had continued to reverence the good Gods of
their sires, who delighted in deeds of philanthropy, active
charity,. and hospitality to the neighbour, and the stranger, and
not to pay horrible veneration to the Demon Plutus, now the
chief idol of their worship, to whom they sacrifice the old and
young, male and female, the destitute and forlorn, the father-
less, and the orphan deprived of the watchfulness of parental
solicitude, to keep them in the way they should walk. Every
nation far and near within the influence of their power is degen-
erate and corrupt, but nature unerring, and steadily to her

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fixed principles, is preparing the antidote for the destructive
poison, to be administered in due season, *'The iniquity of the
Amorite is not yet full."

And now having brought this part of our enquiry to a con-
clusion, I take upon me to assert, that, there were three
original distinct genera of the human species in the parts of
Europe, of which we have been now speaking, the Lapones, the
Finni, and the Cimmerii, Cimbri or Germanni, with their many
nations ; and that two distinct Asiatic people only, the Scythas
and Sarmataj had invaded this quarter of Europe, down to the
commencement of the Christian era, the former of whom
penetrated north to the Baltic, west to the Cronus, and the
latter south to the Danube, and west to the Tobiscus, and that the
Cimmerii are not children of Gomer, nor of Og, generally called
Magog, nor at all of the Scythian race, but an aboriginal
people on their own primaeval lands [e] and no farther, and
here I take leave to notice a kind of a syllogism of a modern,
(y^ in the second part of the 3d chapter of a dissertation on this
subject, in which he hath displayed very extensive reading, and
manifested a considerable portion of liberality, and an exemption
from prejudice rarely met with in these hypocritical times ;
speaking of the Germanni, he asks, What people then were
they ? to which he replies, they were not Sarmatae, all know.
And the only other people whom the ancients know in the
north west of Europe, were the Scythae.

Ergo they were Scythae.

This is one way of coming to a conclusion.

To which [ reply,

The people of Germania, were not Sarmatae ;

They were not Scythae,

What people were they then f

They were Germanni. (o-)

ISOXES TO PART VI.

(«) It is clear the Romaiis in the time of Trogus Pompe.ius had lost all
memory of the original place of their race, it being evident that in record-

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ing the tradition of the controversy between the Scythians and Egyp-
tians for antiquity, he speaks of those Scythians dwelling north of
Caucasus, of which country, (the true Scythia Parentalis as to elevation, the
principal argument urged by the Scythians) Strahlenberg observes,

" Had Juslin known the situation and height of southern Scythia m
Asia, he would have had more reason to have so said of that part of it.''

But what is the fact ? the tradition was handed down from the Scythians
in their most ancient place, which tradition was erroneously applied to
those more modern Scythians in their new seats, the only tribes known to
the Greeks that retained the original name.

(6) Herodotus says in the 11th chapter of Melpomene;

" For it is to be observed the country now possessed by the Scythians,
belonged formerly to the Cimmerians."

(o) Apollonius betrays abundance of ignorance without the addition as-
cribed to him by Mr. Pinkerton, who makes his.author say, that the Eri-
danus was the Po, because Mr. Pinkerton did not know there doth a river
called Rhodaune, called by the Greeks Eridanus, flow into the Vistula,
which everyone knows empties itself into the Baltic.

(c)When a question of damages is to be determined by .twelve Anglo-
Irish on their oaths, it is usual for one of these men to name a high sum,
and another a low sum, the mean between which, is the award.

{d) In the 9lh chapter of Herodotus's Terpsicore, he says, " what lies
beyond the Ister is a vast and endless space, the whole of this, as far as I
am able to learn, is inhabited by the Sigynae, who in dress resemble the
Medes ; the confines of this people extend to the Eneti on the Adriatic, they
call themselves a colony of the Medes ; how this could be, I am not able
to determine."

On this passage oi Herodotus, I beg leave to observe, that I have always
conceived from such detached fragments of antiquity, as have fallen in my
way, that the people called Sarmatae, and Sauromatae, &c., were Assyrian
Bledes, who from the Scythians obtained the appellation of Saormedig, that
is, " Free Medes," of w^hom we know there were many bodies called
Jaziges, or horse auxiliaries, in the service of the Scythians, who had
granted to them tracts of land in divers places. These Sigynse, I conceive
to be of the same nation, and in the service of the Scythians as auxiliaries
but not horse, as the term imports ; and as will be explained fully when
I come to speak of the language of the Scythians ; in the mean time, I beg
you will have in your thoughts this information of Herodotus, respecting
the origin of this tribe Sigynae, wherefrom you may perhaps be of opinion
that it is proof of the origin of the Saormatae.

(e) The demonstration of this fact, so essential to the knowledge of
history, doth not militate in the slightest degree against the passage of

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Genesis, which declares, that " by the posterity of Japheth the isles of the
Gentiles were colonized,'' it is the absurd schemes of the priesthood, and
the servitors of a hierarchy which it overthrows.

The isles of the Gentiles, whither Javan led the colony of Og-eag-eis, in
pointed out by the land of Javan, as are the islands of the Archipelago, by
the isles of Elisha, the emigrations to which may have been known to
Moses, at all events were perfectly known in the time of Ezra, but when
men endeavour to shew that the Hebrews in the age of Moses were ac-
quainted with countries north of Caucasus, and apply the words of Genesis
to the Cimmerians, their excessive zeal hurries them on to an attempt to
prove too much, and thus defeats their pious intentions. Hath it not already
been shewn that Ezekiel, who wrote about 600 years before Christ, fancied
that Ogus Khan came from Armenia.

(/) Pinkerton.

(g) As 1 have noticed this gentleman, I take this opportunity of offering
my thanks, for the great pains he hath taken to instruct mankind, myself
of course, yet I cannot refrain from noticing, that he has indulged his fancy
too much, in speaking most confidently on subjects, whereon he has in the
same breath acknowledged total ignorance, the Irish language for example,
without a knowledge of which, I defy any man to treat correctly of the
Scythian tribes, by whom a great proportion of Europe hath been colonized;
besides I must observe, that in my judgment, he has on many occasions
mistaken his authorities, as instances of which.

In his second grand argument, " the Germans were Scythe, from ancient
authorities," he quotes Herodotus thus : " Herodotus thought that the
Danube rose near a town of the Celts, called Tyrrhene, not far from the
pillar of Hercules, that is the Pyrrenees of Spain.''

I confess, I was amazed at this surprizing instance of the ignorance ot
Herodotus, nor was my astonishment less, when on referring to the author,
I found in the 33rd chapter of Euterpe, the passage which must be meant,
for the one above quoted, and which, according to my knowledge, runs
thus, •' The river Ister taking its rise at the city Pyrrhene amongst the
Celtae, flows through the center of Europe : these Celtse are found beyond
the pillar of Hercules, and border on the Cynesians, the most distant of all
the people who dwell in the western parts of Europe."

Again " Herodr,ius also tells us, that the Eridanus or Po, ran into the
northern ocean, in present Persia," where the amber always was, and is
now alone found, " an idea" says Pinkerton, " which apparently rose from
this, that the amber was brought from Prussia , overland to the mouth of
the Po, there to be shipped for Greece.'' On looking over the 115th chapter
of Tlialia, I find the following, " I by no means believe that the barbarians
gave the name of Eridanus, to a river which empties itself into the nortn-
em sea, whence it is said oiu: amber comes, the name Eridanus i»

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certainly not barbarous, it is of Greek derivation, and introduced, as I con-
ceive, by the poets.'*

Surely the quotations are nothini,' like the original.

In the first, Herodotus doth not say that Tyrrhene was not far from the
pillar of Hercules, nor does he affirm what Pinkerton has put on his
pen, that Pyrrhene was the Pyrenees in Spain ; the words o{ Herodotus are
plain enough : that the Ister rises near a town called Pyrrhene, amongst
the Celts, a people who also inhabited the neighbourhood of the pillars of
Hercules.

And in the last Herodotus is altogether mistaken by Pinkerton, who
fancied that the Eridanus spoken of by him, was the Po, whereas it was
a river called Rho-daune, which flows into the Vistula, near Dantzig, on
the shores of which amber is yet got, and Herodotus was perfectly right in
attributing the name of E-ridan-us, to the Greek poets, which was a mu-
tation from the true name of Ro-daun, which is not the Po. I could give
very many instances of half quotations, and misconceptions, whereon very
much depends, but when the vast quantity of authorities quoted by this
gentleman is considered, the wonder is, that mistakes have not been more
frequent.

XGll DEMONSTRATION.

Of the Scythian Sicionians in Spain.

PAKT VII.

JlI-AVING attended the Og-eag-eis in the central, and the
Goths in the northern course of the Scythian migrations, I
come now to speak of those tribes of the same race, who colo-
nized the great south-western Peninsula of Europe ; of whom
the first adventurers were from Sidon in Phoenicia, a fact
though admitted by all, yet are the conjectures many and
A'arious, as to the date of their arrival on this land, that most
generally received being, that the country was not known to
them till about 1000 years before Christ; and what is not a
little singular, this opinion is held by men who refer the age of
Sesostris to ] 480 ; on which I will observe, that placing the
most perfect reliance on the fidelity of the chronicles of Gaelag,
bye and bye to be perused by you, I will assert without ap-
prehension of deceiving, that this countiy was discovered
and colonized in various maritime parts, more than 1500 years
before the christian era, by Phccnicians, by whom it was called
Eisfeine, Hispania of the Romans, of which the nations ot
Alg-er-be, Buasce and Gaelag, formed no part.

Doth the very ancient history of this quarter lie in obscurity,
the fact is attributable to the policy of the Phoenicians, who
guarded all their foreign acquisitions with secrecy the most
profound. Being Phoenicians, they were Scythians, therefore
I feel myself warranted to say, that Spain was under the con-
troul of the Scythian race of Phoenicia, as marked on the chart,
and shall proceed to point out the other tribes of that race, who
colonized other portions of this Peninsula.

NOTE TO PART VII.

Though the records of antiquity which prove the celebrity of the
Phoenicians in very remote times, in the science of navigation, are too nu«

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merous to be recounted, and too well authenticated to admit of doubt, yet
I will here notice that when Solomon had ships builded to carry on a trade
from Eloth on the Arabian gulph, and from Gezer on the Mediterranean,
he had not only the ships built, but manned also by Phoenicians, more than
a thousand years before the christian era.

We learn also from Josephus, that at a very early time, the Phoenicians
became known by means of trading and navigation to the Greeks, and that
it was through them the Egyptians became acquainted with the Greeks,
a$ did all those people whence the Phoenicians in long voyages over the
seas, carried wares to the Grecians.

Every one must be sensible that a people would for a long season be
practised in moving on the seas, before they ventured to make long
voyages, and consequently, if the Phoenicians were so expert in naval
affairs, more than a thousand years before Christ, according to the chroni-
cles of the Hebrews ; doth not the fact corroborate the account of the
chronicles of the Iberian Scythians in Spain, that assert the Pbceriicians
had settled colonies on the coasts of the Mediterranean, and had passed
into the great ocean, 500 years before the age of Solomon f nor doth the
total ignorance of the ancients on this head, invalidate this testimony in
the least, seeing that it was the policy of the Phoenicians to guard the
secret, and that they did succeed, is proved by that very ignorance, which
is apparent in all the writings of the Greeks, and is confirmed by the fol-
lowing passage in Josephus against Apion, " Nay, those that were reckoned
the most exact historians amongst the Greeks, (Ephorus for one,) were so
ignorant of the Gauls and Spaniards, that he supposed the Spaniards, who
inhabit so great a part of the western regions of the earth, to be no more
than one city." But though the Greeks were unacquainted with the Scy-
thian colonies in Spain, not so the Egyptians, who in the time of Sesoost-ris
invaded Spain, which he found full of a pastoral people, which the Scythi-
ans were, and governed by shepherd kings, after the manner of their race,
which the name of Caore-aon in the Phoenician, or Geryon, in the Grecian
dialect of the Scythian tongue denotes.

XCIV DEMONSTRATION.

Cy the Ib-er-ian Scythians in Spain.
PART VIII.

Having demonstrated, with proof derived from various
sources of antiquity,

That Parental Scythia was north and east of the Caspian
sea, from whence the Scythians poured southward, and occu-
pied all the lands from the Ind (the tribes on the western bank
of which were called Indo-Scythas,) to the Mediterranean ;
their northern and southern limits being, as noted on the chart :

That the Scythians having held all the western parts of
Asia, for many centuries, a stranger people from the east, called
Assyrians, invaded Messipotamia, the seat of the Scythian
government, what time Noe was their supreme chief, his tents
standing on the plains of Shinar by Euphrates :

Having identified this invasion of the Assyrians, with the
universal deluge of the Hebrev/s, and the flight of Noe and
his followers, the Noe-maid-eis to Ardmenia, with the Hebrew
dispersion of mankind in the days of Feleg :

Having traced Noe to Ardmenia, and noticed the reign of
him, and his son Japheth, in that quarter of the Scythian em-
pire :

Having stated that Japheth was succeeded by his youngest
son Off, who was a mighty conqueror, and established his do-
minion over all the regions from Meshech to Caucasus, and
between the Caspian and the Euxine seas, from him called
Mac^-Og, which, before the arrival of Noe, and till the time of
Off, were rather nominally, than actually subject to the su-
preme Scythian chief:

Having attended the march of the colony of the Og-eag-eis,
led by Javan from Ardmenia, to the isles of the Gentiles,
from the western shores of the Euxine to the land of the

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Japydes, and as far south as the north of Attica, near unto
the entrance into Peloponnesus, to the district of Eleusis :

Having shewn that every tribe that entered Ellas^ Pelasgia,
and Achaia, save the few Egyptians led by Danuus, the bro-
ther of Sesosiris, seated at Argos, were of Scythian origin :

And that the colonies conducted by Ofiotrius, and Evandery
from Greece, by Saturn fiom Crete, (Eneas from Phrygia to
Italy, of Lydians to Etruria, and Phocians to Massilia, were
of Scythian extraction :

Having accompanied another tribe of Scythians from Ard-
menia in 1950, to the north of Caucasus, who assumed the
specific denomination of Goth, of which family, a tribe of Getas,
called Daci, moved south to the Ister, west to the waters of
Theyss, or Tobiscus :

And having in the preceding part, noticed the emigration
of multitudes of Phoenician Scythians to Spain, and affirmed
that they had discovered that country, and become influential
therein, as far north as the Duor, and east as the Ib-er, 1500
years before Christ :

I now come to speak of tribes from Iberie, beneath Cauca-
sus, who emigrated to Spain ; and though you will hear the
tale from Eolus, delivered in a style much moie interesting
than mine, I have thought fit to say so much here, as will
connect the narrative, to the more perfect elucidation of their
story.

It hath been said that Og was a conqueror, and brought the
lands from Meshech south, to Caacasus north, and Colg,
Ib-er, and Ailb-binn, the Colch-is, Ib-er-ia, Alb-ania of the
Romans, under his immediate controul ; in fact, established
the seat of the Scythian government in Ardmenia, which, and
the adjacent countries, he ruled more directly, which from him
were called Mag-Og.

It now remains to tell, that Og died in 2145, from which
time Eolus hath not delivered any account to our present pur-
pose, till 1950, when Glas was placed by Dorca, his brother,
(supreme chief of Mag-Og) over Tubal, on which occasion
the name of Ib-er was given to that land, the era of the sepa-

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ration of the Gaal of Iber from the stock of Noe-maid-eis, of
Ardmenla.

Glas retained the government of Ib-er and Ailb-binn, of
which countries Uttle mention is made till 1650, when a colony-
emigrated from Ib-er to Afric, from whom a detachment under
the conduct of a chief called Gaoi-at-colaCy moved to the
country since called Spain, in the south western quarter of
which, between the ocean, the rivers Taoi and Anas, they
established themselves, calling their land Alg-er-be, from
whom a colony separated, and steering along the shore of the
Mediterranean, entered into the land on the waters of Ib-er,
and seated themselves between that river, the Pyrenees, the
ocean, and the Mediterranean, calling their land Buas-ce.

We are also informed by Eolus, that in the year corres-
ponding with 1491 before Christ, another colony, of which
two brothers, to whom the names of Calma and Ro-ii^ard are
given, were the chiefs, emigrated from Ib-er, by the way of
Sidon, and the Mediterranean, to the western quarter of the
country now called Portugal, whereinto they entered by the
water of Duor, between which river, the Iber, and the ocean,
they established themselves, calling their land Gael-ag.

Here having abided for the circuit of 250 years, a multitude
led by Eocaid, brother of Ceannard, chief of Gael-ag, took
their departure from this land, and passed to the other side of
the Pyi*enees, between which mountains, the ocean, the
Garonne, and the Rhone, they dwelled, calling their land
Eocaid-tan,

From whence a Gaal moved eastward, amongst the moun-
tains, who assumed the name of GaaUdun-seis.

These five tribes of Alg-er-be, Buas-ce, Eocaid-tan, the
Gaal-dun-seis, and the Gaal of Sciot in Gael-ag, I am autho-
rized to say, were Scythian Iberians, of the same race as the
Mag-sagiotig, the Persians, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Ardraenians,
Grecians, Romans, and the tribes of Dunmianac, SUures, and
Brigantes in Britain, a fact that shall be distinctly and most
satisfactorily demonstrated, by similarity of manners, customs,
institutions, laws, religion, and, above all, by identity of Ian-

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guage ; of which tribe or Gaal of Sciot of Iber, the chronicles
now presented to you, are the history, compiled from tradi-
tions from the earliest point of time noted, to 1370, and from
that period, from actual knowledge, by every Ard-Olam, ov
chief teacher of the nation, whose special provence it was, to
record all facts considered worthy of memorial, to the year be-
fore Christ 1006, when the chief, princes, nobles, olam, and a
multitude of the Gaal, took their departure from Breo-cceann,
in Gaal-ag, and emigrated to Eri, as shall be manifested by
proofs direct and absolute.

XCVin DEMONSTRATION.

Of the Scythian Tribes in the Isle of Britain.

PART IX.

It is distinctly recorded in the chronicles of Gael-ag, That
ill the 8th year of Ardfear, chief of the Gaal of Sciot of Iber,
corresponding with the year 1037 before Christ, multitudes
from Phoenicia passed by Breo-cceann, (the general name of
all the head lands of Galicia looking over the ocean) and steered
northward to a strange land they had discovered, the bowels
of which they commenced to explore, and from whence they
carried off store of riches, hidden aforetime in the caverns of
the earth ; that shortly afterwards the Phoenicians, and the
Gaal of Sciot of Iber in Gaal-ag, and the Gaal of Iber within
Buas-ce, entered into a covenant, in consequence whereof many
of the two last mentioned tribes went with the former to the
strange land, where they wrought in the mines thereof.

These are the first exotic people who are known to have
entered this island, whither they continued to emigrate from
Phoenicia and Spain, till Dun-mianac, the present Cornwall
and Devon, being either full, or the humour seized these un-
steady tribes to change their place, a colony passed to the
north of Severne, where, in process of time, they confirmed
their power, in the present Monmouth, Glamorgan, Hereford,
Brecon, and Radnor, calling themselves Silures.

In some time after which, another colony took their depar-
ture from Dun-mianac, and steering their course by sea north-
ward, came to land from the water of Mersey, and established
their dominion in the present Lancaster, York, Durham, West-
morland, and Cumberland, calling themselves Breo-ccean-teis,
the Brigantes of the Romans.

These tribes I take upon me to aver, were of Scythian ori-
gin, the first of whom discovered the southern part of this
island, which they called Breo-tan. the trade of which they

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engrossed, the two last of whom wei-e employed by the Phoe-
nicians to work in the mines, and as they encreased, moved to
the lands above described, where they assumed the specific
denominations before mentioned.

These facts shall be demonstrated with ample proof, as well
as that they were the brethren of the Gaal of Scint, of Ibei-y
in Gaelag, and of the Gaal of Iber within Buas-ce and Al-
ger-ba, and that they commenced their emigration from the
same spot about 1035 before Christ, from whence the Gaal of
Sciot took their departure for Eri, in the year lOOf? before the
christian era.

Having now traced all the tribes of the Scythian race of
mankind, who colonized various countries of Europe, fiom
which you are to understand that, of those who occupied from
the western shores of Euxine, to the Ister north, to Panonia
and lUurike, and to the extremity of Gi'eece, the Og-eag-eis,
of whom the Ellenes were a subdenomination, emanated from
Ardmenia, a tribe of the Noemaideis ; and that the Pelasgoi
and Akaioi emigrated from the land of Canaan as before men-
tioned.

That of the tribes who colonized Italy, those conducted by
(Enotrus and Evander from Greece, those led by Saturn from
Crete, those led by Mneas from Phrygia, those from Lydia to
Etruria, and those from Phocis to Massilia, were all of the
Scythian race.

This was the middle highly cultivated course of the migra-
tions of the Scythians westward, after the dismemberment of
their ancient empire.

You are to understand that the colony which moved from
Mag-Og, to the north of Caucasus, and seated themselves be-
tween the Rha and Tanais, and assumed the name of Goth,
were the parents of the Getje and Daci, which last was a sub-
denomination of the first, applied to their southern position,
who advanced westward as far as the waters of Theyss, or To-
biscus, beyond which were the Og-eag-eis of Panoemia.

This was the northern and uncivilized track of the Scythian
march.

C DEMONSTRATION.

You are to understand that Spain, as far north as the Duor,
and east as the Ib-er, was colonized by the Scythian race of
Phoenicia.

That Alg-er-be, Buas-ce, and Gaelag, were colonized by
Scythian tribes from Ib-eria in Mag-Og.

That Eocaid-tan, between the Pyrenees, the Ocean, the Ga-
ronne, and the Rhone, was colonized by Iberians from Gaelag.

And finally, that the Gall-dunseis were a colony from
Eocaid-tan.

This was the southern lettered (a) course of the Scythian
invaders.

And that these are facts, shall be more distinctly proved by
the testimony of the manners, customs, institutions, and lan-
guage of these various tribes.

NOTE TO PART IX.
(fl) When I say lettered, I must be understood to apply the term to the
Iberians of Gaelag, the only one of these tribes who had communication
directly with Phcenicia.

DEMONSTRATION.

Of all the Nations of £lurope, antecedently to the
invasions of the Scythians.

PART X.

J, HE Scythian migrations from Ardnienia, Asia Minor, and
the land of Canaan, in their northern, central, and southern
course, being heretofore accurately marked, I now purpose to
recapitulate, in a summary manner, the Aborigines of Europe,
and the lands that remained to them at the commencement of
the christian era, the period whereto this Demonstration is con-
fined ; a duty rendered necessary by the extreme laxity, want
of accurate information, and practice of generalizing of the
Ancients, and the ignorance of some, and dishonesty of others
of the Moderns, who, in order to make every consideration
bend to their misconception, or perverse interpretations of the
writings of the Hebrews, have swept from off the face of the
earth, the whole human race, save eight persons, at the date
of 2246 years before Christ, whereby they are driven to the
consequent necessity of denying the existence of any people,
but those who derive their origin from these eight sole sur-
vivors, saved from a flood of waters ; between which fancies,
and the many wild and visionary schemes founded thereon,
and the facts heretofore and hereafter to be stated, you will
exercise your own judgment, dispassionately, I am to hope.

And first of the Aborigines, from the waters of Tanais to
the German Ocean, between the extreme north, and the rivers
Ister and Rhine,

SECTION I.

We are informed by those ancients who have been so good
as to impart all they knew of our present subject, that the peo-
ple who dwelled on the lands westward of the Tanais, at the

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tiiiic of the iiuasion of the Scythian Goths, were called Cim-
merii, and also Celta? ; which latter appellation, though it
ceased to be applied generally to the people v/ithin our present
limits, we have proof direct, that the name had in the first in-
stance prevailed, in the facts, that the Scythians east of the
Tanais had lieen called Celto-Scythai, previously to the name
of Ostro-Goths ; and that the people on the shores of Palus
IVIaiotis did continue for a long time to be called Celtae ; and
as the name of Cimmerii endured, by that I will call all the
nations from the Tanais to the pouring forth of the waters of
Cronus into the Baltic, souUiward and westward, as marked
on the chart ; whilst north of the Cronus, the Aborigines were
known by the names of Fenni, Heruh, Lapones, and Scandi-
navii, of whom, not being called on at present to speak, I shall
confine my very few remarks to the Cimmerii.

Should it be thought incredible, that one general name was
applied to all the nations of this immense tract, I answer, that
abundance of evidence is to be found in tlie concurrent testi-
mony of antiquity, avouching the fact. The historian travels
strayingly out of his right road, if he presumes to enter into
argument, his sole province being, according to my judgment,
to speak truth, and the truth is, that the first invaders did give
the name of Cimmerii to the people on the western shore of the
Tanais, in consequence of the climate and state of the country,
in ignorance of the vernacular name ; and as the Goths ad-
vanced, they continued to call the natives by the same name,
changing that of their country, which they seized on, to Getia
or Dacia, after themselves ; and that this practice of calling
divers distinct regions from that nearest to those by whom the
name was applied, prevailed in this quarter in comparatively
modern times, we have the authority of Strahlenhurg and
Hicerner, the former of whom, in the 39ih section of the 3d
chapter of his introduction, says,

" Therefore, Thomas Hicerner, in his manuscript history
of Esthonia, Livonia, and Lithlandia, judges right, why so
many nations and countries had quite other names amongst
their neighbours, than what was usually known amongst them-

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selves ; viz, that it arose from the provinces to which they were
nearest adjoined, and with which they became first acquainted ;
thus tlie Finlanders call all Esthonia, Wirimah, because Wirr-
land hes the nearest to Spain ; for the same reason they call all
Germany, from Saxony ; and ail Sweden, according to the
province of Roshgen ; the Romans in the same manner called
all Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, partly from Schonen,
Scandia, and partly from Tulemark, a district of Norway,
Tuloi ; to this we may add the French, to this day called the
Germans, Al/emands, from the name of one particular nation
called Allmanni."

In like manner did the name of Cimmerii, imposed by the
Asiatic invaders, adhere to the nations westward of the Cronus,
and of Dacia, between the Baltic and the rivers Ister and
Rhine, to the German ocean, which word Cimmerii suffered
the slight mutation of Cimbri, (when, I cannot point out,) by
both which names they were called, till in the space of time
between that of Marius and Tacitus, they came on better
information to be called Germanni, and to be distinguished by
their own national specific denominations.

And here I will close this section with the averment, that
the Vennians, Herulians, Lapones, and Scandinavians, were
the aborigines of all the lands as noted on the chart, which
they continued to inhabit.

And that the Cimmerii were the aborigines of all the coun-
tries from the Tanais, to the German ocean, of which to the
Cronus and the Theyss or Toblscus, they were dispossessed
by the Sarmatae and Scythians, and that from thence to the
German ocean, between the Baltic north, and the Ister and
Rhine south, they did continue to possess and rule, as Cim-
merii, Cimbri or Germanni.

And that they were neither descended from Gomer, nor
from Og, but produced from the elements of their own proper
soil and climate, as old as the hills and waters of their lands.

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SECTION II.

Of the Aborigines of all the lands from the Euxine, to the
Rlf£ctlan Alps, between the Ister and the Thracian Bospho-
rus, Hellespont, to the extremity of Greece.

These people are designated by the general name of Gen-
tiles, their country by that of the isles, which conveys no farther
information, than that they were of another race of mankind
from the Scythians. Though I have no testimony direct and
positive to produce, loth as I am to run the hazard of leading
you astray, by circumstantial evidence, I cannot forbear from
the mention of some few passages to be found scattered here and
there, through the writings of men of ancient days, all tending
to shew who the original inhabitants of these tracts were, and
where found in latter days ; and these incidental notices are
entitled in my opinion, to much consideration from the facts of
the accordance of antiquity therein, and of their being incidental,
therefore exempt from all suspicion of scheme to mislead the
judgment for the establishment of some cherished theory, at
the expense of truth ; none of the tribes of the Scythian race
claiming kindred with those people whom I consider aborigines
of these regions.

If your mind hath conceived the idea that an invading
people destroy those, on whose lands they intrude, pray disen-
cumber your understanding as quickly as possible, of an em-
bryo so monstrous. When the Scythian Og-eag-eis invaded
the lands of the Gentiles, the latter, not able to resist, receded
to the parts calculated from their situation to afford protection,
and in a contrary direction from the point of aggression, there
being abundance of space, the Gentiles would fall back from
one strong position to another, which were numerous in the
country of which I speak.

What portion, if any, of the aborigines mingled with their
invaders, I know not, nor at what era the Scythians reached
the Rhaetian Alps ; but of this we are informed, that in that
quarter, Cimmerii, aborigines north of the Ister, Celtae, abo-

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rigines south of that river, and emigrant Scythians who had
advanced so far westward, did become incorporate, in conse-
quence whereof the land whereon they dwelt together, was
called Japydia, a term denoting that fact ; so far we have proof
that the aborigines at the western extremity of the lands in-
vaded by the Scythian Og-eag-eis, had the name of Celtae, the
same whereby the Scythian Goths first called the people on the
western bank of the Tanais ; for you are to note, that the
Cimmerii on Japydia, had transgressed their original limits,
and were invaders of the Celtse here, as well as the Scythians.

Taking our departure from the west, and turning our steps
southward, the earliest intimation of the progress of the Og-
eag-eis in that direction, is the invasion of Boeotia, from whence,
as before shewn, they continued in the same course as far as
Eleusis, north of Attica, and as Dyme within Peloponnesus,
when the Pelasgoi arrived in that quarter ; and now for the
proofs of who the aborigines were.

In the commencement of his first book, Thucydides says,
" The richest tracts of country (speaking of Greece) were
always more particularly liable to frequent change of inhabi-
tants, such as that which is now called Thessaly, Boeotia, and
Peloponnesus mostly, save Arcadia."

Again, he says, " Most of the Helots were descendants of
the ancient Messenians."

We are told by the same author, that during the Pelopon-
nesian war, Sparta was visited with a desolating earthquake,
whereupon the Helots rose, fell on the surviving Spartans, and
seized on Ithome.

And in his 4th book he relates the circumstance of the in-
human massacre of two thousand of the Helots by the Spar-
tans.

In Arcadia, Laconia and Messenia, there were places called
Helos ; the history of Greece is full of instances of the misera-
ble state of servitude to which the Helots were reduced.

We learn from Herodotus in the 162d chapter of his Po-
lymnia, that,

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" The Athenians boasted of being the most ancient people
of Greece, but the Arcadians resisted their pretensions."

To which let me add, that Eustatius, on D'io?i 414, says,
" Arcadia was formerly called Gigantis ;" and that we are dis-
tinctly informed by Herodotus, in the 73d chapter of Polym-
nia, that,

The Peloponnesus was inhabited in his time by seven dif-
ferent nations, two of these the Arcadians and Cynurians are
natives of the country, and have never changed their place
of residence, which I conceive to be conclusive as to the abori-
ginality of these people.

Not to heap authority upon authority, I beg leave to call
your attention to the position of the people called Helotes, to
bear in mind the name of the lands whereon they were found
by the Scythian Pelasgoi ; the vile uses to which they were
subjected ; the inhumanity with which they were treated ; to
all which shall be added, the testimony of the Scythian lan-
guage, which, if I do not greatly err, will amount to demon-
stration, that the people called by the Pelasgoi, by the name
of Helotes. found in Arcadia, and the southern extremity of
the land, were the aborigines, either driven thither by the
Og-eag-eis, on their inundation of Boeotia, and the northern
part of Peloponnesus, or resident on their original lands from
the beginning — Gentiles of a different genus of mankind from
the Scythians, not descended from Noah, nor any of his race.

SECTION III.

Of the Aborigines of all the countries from the lands of the
Japydes, the eastern extremity of Italy and Sicily, to the
ocean between the Mediterraneayi and Pyrenees south, and
the Isier and Rhine north.

Of the Scythian origin of all the invaders of these coun-
tries I have spoken heretofore ; it remains now to shew who
the aborigines were. Those of Sicily, we are informed, were
called Sicani ; those of the eastern parts of Italy, we are told,
had the name of Umbri ; all the other people within our limits
bore the general name of Celtae, confined half a century be-

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fore the Christian era to one third of the country now called
France, lying between the Garroniie and the Seine, the Cim-
merian Germannic Belgte having encroached on the Celtae be-
tween the Rhine and Seine, and in otlier smaller districts, to-
wards Italy ; and the Iberian Scythians having wrested from
them the lands of 5\quitania, and of the Waldenses ; the
Scythian Phocians having obtruded themselves into Massilia ;
and the Scythian Romans having subjected the whole race of
the original Celtje within our limits, the great body of whom
were confined to the middle third of Gaul, called Celtica, and
Airmorica, this day Britany, in France.

And that they were the aboriginal people of the countries
now under consideration, and distinct from the Cimmerii,
though both were Europeans, whose forefathers did not emi-
grate from any other quarter of this earth, shall receive farther
and conclusive proof when I come to deliver 'the evidence of
language.

SECTION IV.

Of the Aborigines of the Peninsula of Europe.

On this part of our subject a very few words will suffice.
All the aborigines of this quarter of Europe were called by
the general name of Celtae ; and we find, from the 83rd chap-
ter of the Euterpe of Herodotus, that a people to whom he
hath given the name of Cynesyans, bordered on the Celtae,
near the Pillars of Hercules ; these aborigines, let them iiave
been called as they will, we iind gathered themselves together
in the highlands, not far from the centre of present Spain, on
whom bordered the Iberians of Biscay and Galicia, who, from
that circumstance, obtained the appellation of Celt-Iberi, as
the Scythian tribes on the Indus had the name of Indo-Scytliae,
and those on the confines of Europe and Asia had the name
of Celto-Scythae, of which I shall have occasion to remark far-
ther, for the purpose of removing an error very prevalent as
to these Celt-Iberian tribes.

SECTION V.

As to the aborigines of the Isle of Britain, they were called
by the general name of Celta>.

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Of the Manners, Customs, Original l7istitutio7is,
and Religion, of the Scythiafi race.

PART XI.

I PURPOSE now to treat of the manners, customs, and original
institutions of the Sc«//Aia7w, thereby to shew the relation oi
their various tribes, and their diversity from all other people.

Every one must be aware, generally speaking, this is not
an unerring criterion of origin, a resemblance being found to
prevail, in many particulars, amongst nations no way allied,
in the same stages of society, and living under tlie like climate ;
but all the Scythians had so strong a resemblance to each other,
and were so different from all other people, in this similitude
and dissimilitude they are easily recognized, accurately identi-
fied, and clearly distinguished in the remotest times, and down
to the latest periods of the preservation of their primitive esta-
blishments, striking features of their race.

Those who have not duly considered, may think it waste of
time to look deeply into this subject; yet on recollecting the
very high antiquity of these people, the celebrated countries
they have colonized and ruled, above all, that on their insti-
tutions were founded the laws of Greece and Rome in the days
of their reno^vn, the times of their glory, I should hope you
will be of opinion, an omission to throw any llglit that may
serve to illustrate this interesting inquiry, would be an un-
pardonable instance of neglect and idleness.

Though I shall not give occasion to be considered wild and
visionary, by entering into calculations of quantities and quali-
ties, solidities and superficies, and draw conclusions therefrom
of modes whereby, times when, this globe was produced, as
many vain theorists have done ; yet will I declare my opinion,
that this planet always existing became a member of this solar

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system, in consequence of its emerging from a denser matter
in which it had been enveloped ; and thus visible, its surface
breathed on by the air, illuminated and vivified by the rays of
light and heat, became capable of yielding its manifold pro-
ductions, from which cause, according to my judgment, or
my imagination, should you think the terra more apt, have
arisen the various distinct genera of the human race, and of all
other animals and things ; the consideration of which hath
directed my mind to the conclusion, that the operations of
nature ai*e various, suited to the soils and climates ; by reason
whereof it is observable, at no time, however remote, hath any
country been invaded by strangers, that inhabitants have not
been found thereon, who had no tradition of the removal of
their forefathers from any other place. Aborigines, a race pro-
duced by the elements of that their climate of the earth. Nor
can I conceive how this idea derogates from the power and
majesty of a first cause, save in the estimation of such as can
discern a more surprising effort of wondrous acquirements in
an artist, who, after the manner of man, forms day by day, a
piece of curious mechanism ; than in the incomprehensible at-
tributes of an Almighty power, at whose word myriads of
worlds start into existence, parts of a system that baffles the
penetration of the limited senses of vain presumptuous man. («)

This is idle speculation, there being no voucher for my
words, nor yet for the contrary opinions of other men, no ar-
biter to be resorted to, no demonstration attainable ; having no
anxiety for the respect in which my ideas on this subject may
be held, I shall content myself with the observation, that let
this globe have been produced how it may, it hath not apper-
tained to its present system very many ages antecedently to re-
ceived notions, my judgment being founded on the paucity of
the human race in the most populous regions, and the meagre
state of arts and science, at a time not very remote, historically
ascertained.

What though some parts of the subject, merely theoretic,
are impertinent to our present purpose, or indeed to any pur-
pose, the contemplation of other branches thereof leads to a

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result on which reason can repose with satisfaction, by in-
structing the mind to account for the variety of the productions
of nature, found in the different climates of the earth ; varieties
radical, intrinsic, from which have sprung the diversity of man-
ners, customs, and institutions, a diversity so great, and strongly
marked from the first moment of traditionary tale, to the war-
rant of historic record, as to denote diversity of the origin in
the people amongst whom they were in use ; for the illustration
whereof, I shall first have recourse to the writings of the He-
brews, which, though in the gross seemingly opposed to the
testimony of all other ancient people, Avill be found in detail
either in agreement with them, or to confute themselves ; as
Prideaiix says, " although the Jewish writers are very
wretched historians, and often give us gross fables instead of
true narratives ; yet whenever they do so, there is either some-
thing internal in the matter related, or else external to it from
other evidences, that convict them of the falsity." And he
addsj " but when there is nothing of this, the testimony of the
historian is to stand good in that which he relates of the affairs
of his own country and people ;" with which latter sentiment
I cannot accord without the qualification, that the truth inter-
fered not with these pious frauds, in the propagation and esta-
blishment of which, they were in the continual practice, or that
the written record was not too far removed from the ora
tradition. Fortunately, on the present occasion, we may con-
fide in their relation of the affairs of their own country ana
people, as far as concerns our immediate object, (b)

The grand features of the Scythian race as to manners,
customs, and institutions, were

Community of lands.

Tribal divisions.

Government by elected chiefs.

Arms.

Congregating in public assemblies.

Dwelling in tents.

The adoration of the sun personified by the name of Baal,
Cemas, and divers other appellations.

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And the worship of fire, the present emblem of the divhiity
by various names, as iMoloc, Dagon, &c.

Of the many regions of the eartli altogether unknown to
writers of ancient days, Tatars, Chinese, Hindoos, the nations
of Africa save Egypt, and the Avestcrn hemisphere, it would be
bootless to speak, I shall therefore confine myself to the
Assyrians on the one hand, and the Egytians on the other, the
people in the immediate neighbourhood of the Scythians, and
to aborigines of Europe with whom I shall contrast them, arid
point out instances of difference, so marked and determined as
leave no room for doubt of difference of origin, so fixed and
strong as not to have grown out of separation from a parent
stock, in an accumulation of ages, ten-fold greater than the
time wherein the change must have been wrought.

If you turn to Genesis, and read the nine first chapters, and
the first nine verses of the tenth chapter, such as the medley is,
you will not find mention of an house, or durable habitation, or
the slightest allusion to any thing of the kind, the city of Cain's
building excepted, called Enoch, of which though the bible
translators have made a city, means nothing more than a con-
gregation ; nor is even Noah at a much later period described
but living in a tent : But when the stranger eastern people,
called Assyrians, made their first appearance on the land of the
Scythians, we are for the first time toW of real cities and walls
for fortifications, and a citadel constructed of permanent
materials, with surprising art in the science of architecture, Ba-
bel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar, the an-
cient seat of the Scythians, whereon theretofore had stood the
tents of Noah, the supreme chief of the Scythian nations ; then
you hear of the Assyrians going up from Shinar and building
Nin-eveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah. From the
moment of the appearance of the Assyrians in Messipotamia,
we first hear of manners, and customs, and institutions, the very
reverse of those of the Scythians, the building of cities being
proof of personal appropriation of the soil, the administration
of government being in the hands of hereditary chiefs, whilst
in religion, a total difference existed between the two people.

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as we are fully informed by the account of Abraliairi's migra-
tion from Ur of Chaldea, to the land of Canaan, which was
undertaken by the inspiration of his God, solely for religion
sake, the Scythian religion having become corrupted in Chaldea
by the influence of the Assyrian ; and whilst it is clear that
such a corruption had taken place there from that cause, it is
equally clear that it was still pure in the land of Canaan,
whither he was directed by his God to remove, a fact confirmed
by his interview with Melchizedec, king of Salem, and also the
priest of the most high God, the God of Jbram, re-
cognized by him as such, and presented with an offering, por-
tion of a spoil.

And afterwards it came to pass that Abram went down to
Gerar, and a covenant was made between him and Ab-e-melech,
chief of the five Lords of the Philistines, and Phicol chief cap-
tain of his host ; and they speak unto Abram, saying, " God is
with thee in all thou doest, now swear unto us here by
God."

And it appears that shortly after the arrival of Abram and
his nephew Lot in Canaan, there being a sore famine in that
land, they journeyed to Egypt, from whence they returned to
Canaan with so great a store of cattle, that the land was not
able to bear them, that they may dwell together, and a con-
tention having arisen between their herdsmen for pasturage, we
hear of Abram saying to Lot,

•' Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee,
for we be brethren, is not the whole land before thee ? separate
thyself, I pray thee, from me, if thou wilt take the left hand,
then I Avill go to the right."

And Lot chose him out all the plain of Jordan, and he pitched
his tent towards Sodom ;

And Abram removed his tent, and came towards Mamre.

And when the Lord appeared unto him in the plain of
Mamre, Abram sat in the tent door.

We hear of him only in the tent.

We learn from Genesis also, that when Isaac the son of
Abram, made a covenant with the chief Lord of the Philistines,

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and with the chief captain of his host, all swore by the same
God, and Isaac dwelled in the tent, and roved here and there
at his will and pleasure, the lands free for his foot, and for his
flocks, and herds.

But when Jdcoh, the son of Isaac, the son of Ahram, the son
of Terah, went in compUance with the desire of his mother, to
take a wife from amongst her kindred of Haran of Ellasser,
Laba7i, the son of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, the son of Te-
rah, was considered and called an Assyrian, and had embraced
the religion of that people, under the government of whom, he
and his family had continued to live, for we hear of his accusing
Jacob of stealing his Gods, and of RctcheVs being an image
worshipper, and taking her Assyrian idols with her, from
EUasser to the land of Canaan ; and Laban in relating a
dream he had of the appearance of the Lord, expressly says,
" The God of your father spake unto me."

Moreover, when Jacob and Laban entered into a covenant,
and swore to the observance thereof, Laban swore by the God
of Nahor, but Jacob swore by the God of Abram. Jacob is
represented as a plain man living in the tent, and whilst he
abided in Hebron, his sons were tending his cattle in Dothan,
a distance of more than three score miles.

From which brief summary we arrive at the conclusions,
that the Assyrians differed from the Scythians in all those
leading features that characterize mankind, the former congre-
gating in immense cities, the latter dwelling in tents, scattered
over the territory, the former having personal properly in the
soil, the latter holding their land in community tribal, if not
national, the former having a plurality of Gods, whose images
they idolized in sumptuous temples, the latter paying adoration
to the sun, moon, and stars, and to fire, the emblem of the
divinity, not confined to walls, their worship as free and pure
as the element itself; the biography of Abram, Isaac, and
Jacob, shews that though men of great consideration, they
dwelled in the tent, and though strangers, they traversed the
land whithersoever they pleased with their numerous cattle,

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that they invoked the same God, professed the same religion
as the people amongst whom Abram had been commanded to
live, in the practice of all those manners and customs, and
institi'cions peculiar to the Scythian race of mankind.

Should it be imagined from the mode of expression used by
the bible translators, that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah
abandoned the Scythian custom of abiding in tents ; it will be
found from the text that there is no foundation for the suppo-
sition.

Lot, dwelt in th-e cities of the plain, and pitched his tent
towards Sodom ; the Hebrew word rendered city, meaning no
more than an encampment, a temporary congregation of a part
of a society.

Should the purchase by Abram of Machpelah seem to mili-
tate against community of lands, one of the most remarkable
features of the Scythian institutions, it is to be considered this
was a cave, plantation, and enclosure, on which labour had
been bestowed, even so, the grant was the act and deed of all
the society of the land of Heth, nor was Hephron disposed
to accept of ought for the property, it was Abram who forced
the value on him, lest the vauk wherein he was about to bury
Sarah, and designed for his own interment, should be attempt-
ed to be wrested from him, or disputed with his posterity at
any future time, which the public notoriety of the payment of
the price would be the means of preventing, nay, the relation
of the transaction proves that the Scythians of Canaan had
not advanced to personal possession of any portion of the land,
for the correctness of which observation, I beg leave to refer
you to the 23d chapter of Genesis, where you will find the
story told in the sweet style of ancient simplicity, and Scythian
eloquence, pathetic and sublime.

From the same authority we learn, that after a sojourn of
two hundred and fifteen years in the land of Canaan, the pos-
terity of Abram removed to Egypt, between the people of
wliich country and this tribe of Scythians, there was a total
difference of manners, customs, and institutions; when the
Pharaoh enquired of Jacob what was his occupation, Jacob

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answered, " Thy servants are shepherds, both we and also our
fathers," but a shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians
who were corn eaters, subsisted on the fruits of the earth, and
paid adoration to beasts, on which the Hebrews fed ; so great
was the detestation in which they held the Israehtes, that they
would not eat even bread with them. In Egypt we hear at
this time, of an absolute king making and unmaking laws at
his sole will and pleasure, of sumptuous palaces, of prisons,
chains, bars, bolts and keepers, of personal property in the
land, and of their parting with it by individual contract, of the
inhabitants dwelling in cities durable, whilst the children of
Isrdel are represented abiding apart from the people of Egypt
in tents, scattered over the land of Goshen, no personal ap-
propriation of any part of the soil, no permanent dwelling
from the time of their entrance into Egypt, till the publication
of the edict of the Pharaoh of that day, for erecting houses
for the purpose of collecting them together, for the more effec-
tual execution of the inhuman project of destroying all the
male infants of tlieir nation, (c)

If the difference was great between these two people in
manners and customs, it was still greater in religion ; that of
the Scythians was simple as their state— that of the Egyptians,
complicated, and delusive, an hierarchy so long established as
to have degenerated into a regular system of magic, legerde-
main, enchantments, and divination. In fine, nothing can be
more unlike than the Scythians, Assyrians, and Egyptians, as
represented in all ages, in every particular that characterizes
natrons of distinct and diverse origins. Having shewn the
dissimilarity between these three different races of mankind,
let us now attend the Scythian tribes, and mark their identity
by a perfect resemblance. Here ideas present themselves to
the reflecting mind, causing deep regret, that man who boast-
cth of his reason, as though his pecuUar endowment, is yet in
practice inferior to the httle bees, who, if they lay up a dele-
terious store, it is for want of sweet flowers, and wholesome
herbs, from which to extract a nourishing food withal ; but
man neglecteth, yet despiseth salubrious plants, from which

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may be expressed an essence more delicious than the honey,
and the honey-comb, and fastens on the grossest weeds, gree-
dily imbibing the pernicious juice thereof, rank poison to the
mderstanding. Is it not to be lamented that the mind of
youth is directed to miracles, and mysteries, instructed in the
belief of supernatural agency, individual revelation, and in-
spiration from the actual personal presence of a spirit, whilst
the rich mine of antiquity, containing the treasure wisdom,
but very superficially covered with the dross and rubbish of
deception, by the clumsy hands of scheming knaves, yet, as
experience teacheth, hidden deep enough for hypocrisy, alas !
and with sufficient art for ignorance, oh, pity ! is slighted, and
by few explored. Let me lay open one rich vein thereof, and
expose it to your ample view, as we attend the steps of the
children of Israel on their march from the house of bondage
in Egypt, till their establishment in the land of Canaan.

This Scythian nation, known by the name of the Twelve
Tribes of Israel, having sogourned in Egypt for the space of
two hundred and fifteen years, the latter part of which time
being cruelly persecuted, reduced to the condition of Slaves,
a grand and glorious conspiracy was promoted by the man
MoseSf for which his name will ever be held in honor and re-
spect, by all who cherish national independence, would resist
foreign jurisdiction, and hold despotism in abhorrence. He
it was who seeing the time apt for the execution of the noble
enterprize, inspired his drooping fellows with courage to shake
off the yoke of servitude, whereupon he became their chief,
under whose guidance the force he had been the principal
means of uniting, was to be directed.

Let your minds eye look upon those twelve tribes of the
children of Israel, conducted by their chief Moses, marshalled
by their elders, marching forth of the land of Egypt, the
house of their bondage.

Turn your intellectual ear, and attend to the people calling
on their prince and leader to make laws for their government ;

Behold this people assembled round Mount Sinai, " that
was altogether in a smoke, because the Lord descended upon

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it in fire ;" and there at the Fire mount, according to the pri-
mitive custom of the Scythian race, hear Moses potently endued
Avith the spirit of wisdom, promulgating laws for the rejection,
or adoption of the whole people.

" And Moses came and told the people all the judgments,
and all the people answered with one voice — All the words
which the Lord hath said, will we do." The consent of the
entire society to the laws their legislator had framed, indivi-
dually expressed,

" And Moses took the book of the covenant, and read in
the audience of the people ;" and they repeated their approba-
tion.

Can a spectacle more grand, more sublime, be conceived by
the mind of man — a nation recovering their liberty, beoHne
arbiters of their own destiny, masters of their own actions, re-
quiring the man recommended to their special confidence by
consummate wisdom, prudence, and glorious achievements, to
make regulations for their future conduct, assembling on the
mount, hearing the publication of the laws, giving their con-
sent thereto, collectively and individually, and entering into a
covenant each with the other, and with all, to abide thereby,
each surrendering a portion of his natural liberty, for the ge-
neral warranty of the enjoyment of the comfort, and security
of social life.

This nation of slaves, this fugitive banditti, now become a
regulated society, invade the laud of the Amorites, east of
Jordan, which they win ; whereupon a part of the community
request of Moses to be permitted to abide thereon, upon the
covenant of their passing over Jordan, and helping their bre-
thren to conquer the lands westward thereof.

" So, concerning them, Moses commanded Eleazer the priest,
and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes
of the children of Israel, to divide amongst these two tribes
and a half all that land.''''

So deeply was the memory of their original institutions en-
graven on their hearts, so entirely were all their acts con-
formable thereto, that Moses presumed not to take the execu-

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tion upon himself; nor, though universally, deservedly beloved,
and respected, did he contemplate the succession of one of his
own family to the seat of the chiefs but laid his hand on Joshua^
the elected of the people.

What was the first act of Joshuas administration ?

A renewal of the covenant with the whole community, and
Joshua led the warriors over Jordan, and he discomfitted all
the inland nations of Canaan, the territory of which he divided
by LOT amongst the nine tribes and the half tribe ; nor was it
from modesty, but in obedience to established custom, that the
chief reserved no huge, or any portion for himself; for it was
" when they had made an end of dividing the land for inherit-
ance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance
to Joshua, the son of Nun, amongst them."

" They gave him the city which he asked, even Tiranath
Serah, on Mount Ephraim."

So rigidly did this Scythian people adhere to original insti-
tutions, that every member of the society had his fair and just
proportion of the soil, of which he could not be deprived, any
more than of the air in which he breathed, with which it was
not in his power to part but for a limited time ; his humiliated
state during the temporary deprivation, being well calculated
to make him provident for the times to come.

It hath been clearly shewn that Abram, Isaac, and Jacob,
were in the practice of the customs, and professed the religion
of the Scythian race. It appears from their own history, that
the twelve tribes adhered to all these peculiar customs and in-
stitutions, though in a state of subjection to a foreign yoke,
corpus quasi mortuum ; they were a pastoral people, they had
the land in community, they dwelled in tents scattered over
the territory, they had their nominal elders, though without
power to enforce obedience, their religion the very reverse of
the religion of Egypt, as were their manners, all their customs
and institutions ; such was their condition when they broke
forth of Egypt, a congregated mass, arms in their hands,
cruelty in their hearts, their minds soured by indignities heaped
on them, in a state of long seclusion from the human race, un

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versed in the ways of men, save those of the tyrant and the
slave, carrying the hatred they bore task-masters into the
bosom of people from whom their progenitors had experienced
nought but hospitality and good offices ; animated by old pro-
phecies, to the belief of which they were prone, now adapted
by the tongue of pious fraud to the ear of ignorance, their
hands uplifted against all mankind. In this state Moses, whose
chief end and scope was, to keep his nation distinct from all the
people of whom he had ever known or heard, particularly those
amongst whom the Israelites were about to establish them-
selves, did now make many and great alterations in the an-
cient religion of his fathers, what these alterations were have
been unduly estimated by mankind. It is to be recollected,
that Joseph, always of a raving imagination, became, when
dwelling amongst the Egyptians, a conjurer; and had a
divining cup wherewith he told fortunes, for which the Egyp-
tians ever were, and are at this day, celebrated ; and that Moses
had from infancy been reared in the king of Egypt's house, as
the child of the king's daughter, apart from his nation, brought
up in the religion, and as is said of the priesthood, of Egypt ;
from whence, on taking to heart the affliction of his race, he
removed to the land of Goshen ; when, on seeing an Egyptian
slave-driver, an inhuman task-master smite one of his brethren,
he slew the Egyptian, and buried him in the sand ; and on the
next day, " behold two men of the Hebrews strove together,
and he said to him that did the wrong, wherefore smitest thou
thy fellow }

" And he said, who made thee a prince and judge over us,
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian."

And Moses fled and dwelt in the land of Midian ; O ye
slaves, bowed down beneath the yoke of foreigners, are ye
altogether blind, and so void of understanding, that ye cannot
point the moral of this tale. Moses saw and felt for the
miserable condition of his prostrate brethren, he sought to
raise them to the attitude of men, then to unite their force
against the oppressor ; but the senseless Hebrew, debased and
brutalized by servitude, hesitated not to destroy his friend and

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benefactor ; what, though the virtuous Moses was then obUged
to fly and hide his head, did he not return ? did he not suc-
ceed in his project of uniting the people, and was not their
united force irresistible ? Hear this, and bear it well in mind,
all ye nations of the earthy that crawl on the surface of the
land of your forefathers, deprived of your independance, and
your native sovereignty, subject to tyrants, aliens to your
blood, your land, and you ; Moses did succeed, and his name
and nation will be celebrated, whilst sun, moon, and stars en-
dure ; had he failed, the world had never heard of either
Moses, nor of Israel, or if remembered, the Egyptians would
have been their recorders, loaded him with every foul epithet,
false traitor, brutal rebel, ungrateful monster, and concluded
his biography with a description of the newly invented tortures,
under the infliction of wliich, his coward spirit took its flight
to the infernal regions, the manifold vices and crimes imputed
to him, made to serve as just causes for the lacerations, half
hangings, and cruelties in every shape and form practised on
the people, retained in slavery, forced into a state of barbaiism,
such actual state the pretext of treating them like brutes.

Oh, Eri, Eli, my beloved, your country is desolate, your
cities are burned with fire, your land strangers devour it in
your presence, it is desolate, overthrown by strangers.

" This is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them
snared in holes, they are hid in prison houses, they are for a
prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, will none say, restore?"

" I would have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling,
even the dregs of the cup of fury, that thou should drink no
itiore of it again."

" I would have put it in the hand of them that afflict thee,
which have said to thy soul, bow down, that we may go over,
that thou shouldest not have laid thy body as the ground, and
as the street to them who have gone over."

But the iniquity of thy oppressor is not yet full, long time
will not pass till it Avill overflow.

Reflecting on what I know, feeling what I feel, every friend
to regulated liberty, e\ery heart that can sympathize with a

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once brave and generous people, now brought low, even to the
condition of beasts of burden, ever and anon goaded to resist
tyranny, that tyrants may thereby endeavour to palliate their
wanton cruelties, will pardon my wandering from east to west,
a moiety of the world's space, a moiety of the world's supposed
age. I am now far from thee, Eri, the sword of the destroyer
between us twain, it is but the gross and heavy particles of
which I am composed, that are in absence from my beloved,
my heart cleaves to thee, my spirit hovers over thee, it is
amongst the children of the land, one day to animate them, to
assert the rights of nature, and to call out as with one voice to
the inhuman spoiler, restore, restore.

I had been saying when I strayed, that the alteration made
by Moses in the ancient religions of his nation, was not duly
estimated by mankind, that it was to be considered that he
had been bred in the king of Egypt's court, where he had im-
bibed a considerable portion of the Egyptian priestcraft, and
had become remarkably expert at the art of magic and conju-
ration, that he had resided for some time in Midian, and had
married the daughter of the priest of that land, he was strongly
tinctured with what is termed religion, and was wise enough to
know the hold it takes upon the mind ; but as the children
of Israel must have been somewhat lax in this particular, from
their actual condition, their priests wanting the power to render
the law of effect, their minds were in a fit temper to receive
impressions ; yet did the alteration of Moses consist more in
ceremonies, forms, and organization of an hierarchy, to which
the civil power was to be subservient, *' A nation of priests
unto the Lord," than in essentials ; if you examine their own
accounts diligently, and not suffer your understanding to be
warped nor sophisticated by interpretators, but adhere to the
text, from the burning bush, to the commencement of their
march from Egypt.

" When the Lord went before the children of Israel by day,
in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way, and by night in a
pillar of fire, to give them light to go by day and night.

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" He took not away tlie pillar of the cloud by day, nor the
pillar of fire by night, from before the people."

To their assembling around Mount Sinai, " all in a smoke,
for the Lord had descended on it in fire," to the end, through
the whole course of their history, you will find that though
Moses personified the first cause, by the admirable incompre-
hensible, nondescript term, *' I am that I am," the very same
by which Socrates the Greek Scythian, recognized the great
Spirit, the only one by which the tongue of truth, can express
the lack of the reason of man, on a subject beyond man's con-
ception. Yet Avere the children of Israel fire worshippers,
though they ceased to pay adoration to the sun, moon, and
stars, after the manner of their forefathers. Even in the confu-
sion that reigns through every page of their history, if their
writings deserve the name, we find the most scrupulous
adherence to the ancient usages af the Scythian race.

Inviolability of landed possessions by tribal occupation.

Arms.

Public assemblies.

Election of their chiefs.

Always present in the censers and the candlesticks, in the
tabernacle, and the temple.

Peculiar veneration for the element fire, tlie symbol of which
was, on the very heart of the high priest, represented by Ur-im
and Thumlra, the perfection of fire and heat.

Till David, the man after the priest's own heart, commenced
the work of foreign conquests, by means of which he was
enabled to make inroads on the laws and liberties of his country,
nominated his successor, and laid the foundation for all the
corruption which first crept, then strode with long, and bold,
and daring steps, into the state, whose march Solomon the
wisest of all the children of Israel, yea of the sons of men, what
magic in wealth ! ! accelerated by the introduction of riches,
by means of foreign trade and commerce, whereby gold and
silver became as plenty as stones in .Jerusalem, considered the
fountain of comfort and happiness, proved invariably to be a
source of misery and care, and thus ])repared the way for the

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sutjugation of his countrv. to the yoke of one foreign power
after another, the most afflicting of all the agonizing states of
man, their national career completed by their utter expulsion
from their native land, their descendants found in every wealthy
country in the universe, granted merely an asylum, a covering
for the head, no lands, no arms, no public assemblies, no elected
chiefs, in the place of these blessings, the curse of perpetual
insecurity, volition without the means of carrying it into effect,
punishments inflicted on them, not for idolatry, nor yet for the
shedding, by means of corrupt perjured judges, of corrupted,
prepared, and perjured juries, the blood of the amiable, mild,
and virtuous Jesus, that incorruptible man, who would have
effected a reform of the insufferable abuses of the laws of his
country, had not wealth, privileges, and art on the one hand,
and poverty, exclusion, and ignorance on the other, given the
public enemy recognized in foreign despotism, and native sub-
jugation, the victory over him, his country, and the laws. It
was not for these transgressions though enormous, (they and
such like are but symptomatic of impending dissolution,) that
the children of Israel, whose dominion commenced in David,
and had an end in Solomon, have been reduced to their present
calamitous condition, it was because they placed themselves
in an attitude of resistance and defiance to all mankind, sacri-
ficed their primitive institutions to conquest, foreign commerce,
and riches ; and having proved themselves merciless tyrants,
are unlamented slaves.

As to the ancient laws of the Scythians, the only prohibitory
law, was " do not commit murder," for the breach of whicii
the life of the transgressor was to atone, a law repeated two
thousand years afterwards by Jesus Christ, not less per-
nicious than which that philanthropist considered the hatred,
disunion, and strife, amongst the children of Israel, which
never fails to bring down upon a people, the heavy curse of
foreign domination.

That long before the time of Moses, the injunctions of
adhering to truth, and refraining from theft, and the sublime
j)rcrepts of morality falsely attributed to that legislator, were

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taught by the Scythians, will appear from the writing of
Eohcs, Moses did but appreciate the punishment to infraction,
and make additions easily distinguishable by their matchless
absurdity.

The genuine laws of the Scythians were ;

Commit no murder.

Steal not.

Utter no falsehood.

Give glory and thanks to Baal the author of light and life.

Honor thy father.

Cherish thy mother.

Protect thy sister.

Let brethren be united.

Be kind and tender to the desolate wdow, the fatherless, and
the orphan.

Minister to the stranger far from the voice of his kkidred.

From the needy and distressed turn not thy face away.

Whilst the universal rule of punishment was retribution.

These are the laws of the Scythians, to which Jesus would
have respect paid, whilst he is wholly silent of, or indignant at
the punctilious observance of the traditions of his nation, con-
cerning the fringe for the petticoats, ointments after the man-
ner of the apothecary, the scape goat ::nd all such, together
with the filthy obscenity with which their puerile code is
charged, too gi-oss to escape the lips of the chaste decorous
Jesus, even by the bare mention thereof, though he treats with
his accustomed severity and justice, the practice of those
hypocrites.

" Who paid tythe of mint, and anisG, and cummin, and
omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and
faith.

" Blind guides who strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel, who
make clean the outside of the platter, but within they are full
of extortion and excess.

" Like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful
outwardly, but are ^rithin full of hypocrisy and iniquity."

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1£ Moses was the man by whom laws and judgments were
multiplied, it was done with the intent of separating the 12 tribes
of Israel not only from Assyrians, Egyptians, and Arabs, but
from all the nations of even the Scythian race.

As to the many kings, according to bible translators, who
ruled the various communities of the land of Canaan, at the
time of the invasion of the Hebrews, you will form a very in-
correct estimate of them, if you fancy they bore any resem-
blance to the men called the Lord's anointed of these days.
They were elected chiefs of their tribes, men of the people,
chosen to a station of difficulty and peril, to which they were
raised for their excellency ; to which an infant, an idiot, a
maniac, or a female, could not, by right of birth, succeed,
which the people were too wise to suffer such a one to fill.
Such were the Scythian chiefs of the nations of Canaan in-
vaded by the Hebrews.

Such were the five lords of the Philistine ;

Such was the ruler of the land of Hamath ;

Such were the people in the practice of the original feudal
system ;

Whereby every individual had his fair proportion of the
soil:

Whereby every individual had a right to be present in the
assembly of the people :

Whereby chiefs and rulers were chosen :

Whereby every man was not only permitted to, but must
be armed to defend his country against aggression from with-
out, and his rights against any attempt at domestic tyranny :

Their peculiar customs dwelling in tents ;

Their religion the adoration of the visible objects, sun,
moon, and stars ; and the worship of fire, the emblem of the
Deity.

As to the city of Jericho, and the walls thereof, on which the
house of Rahab, the harlot and traitoress, stood, which feK
down flat at the sound of the priests breath through rams
horns ; notwithstanding which, the cord by which she suiFered
the spies, enemies to her country, to escape, was still visible to

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direct the invaders to a house that did not exist ! Read the
tale in full in Joshua ; I am of opinion this is one of the in-
stances alluded to by Prideaux^ " where the falsity of the re-
lation confutes itself." Was it not to cairy us too far from
our subject, it could be shewn in innumerable cases, that man-
ners and customs were described out of season by their annal-
ists, and that the accounts of these, and such like transactions,
were put together from traditions in a most bungling manner,
many centuries after the supposed occurrence of the facts.

Did the nation of Hamath depart from some of the usages
of their race, such as dwelling in tents, and conforming to more
strict rules of society, it is to be attributed to their advance in
what is called the civiUzed course, in consequence of their
trade and commerce with distant people

The simple idea of trade and commerce, whereby man
counteracts the rigours of climate, and nations supply each
other with mutual wants, and mutual comforts, is delightful ;
but when the mind comes to associate therewith the various
circumstances of war, robberies, murders, devastations, and
all the oppressions \\hich the weak endure from a stronger
arm, wars not originating in the momentary transient gratifi-
cation of pride and glory, but in the detestable principle of
self-interest, the worm that never dies, admiration is lost in
disgust.

What a charming picture for the fancy, " The wolf dwell-
ing with the lamb ; the leopard lying down with the kid and the
calf, and the young lion and the falling together, and a little
child leading them, all reposing together in perfect security,
the figures just to nature. Is not the pleasure felt at the first
impulse considerably abated, if not altogether dispelled, by
the reflexion of the unreality of the scene ?

Trade, though it enlargeth the sphere of corporal and men-
tal action, the energies excited are engaged in caUing in all
delicious sympathies, all the fine sentiments of universal hos-
pitality, benevolence, and philanthropy, and concentrating
every feeling in sordid pitiful self. Should the outward dis-
play of the semblance of these virtues happen to be made,

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ostentation is the ruling principle, accompanied by a computa-
tion of actual loss, and the probable gain from the confidence
which riches and generosity usually inspire, whilst the cold
hand gives, the cool brain calculates, every avenue to the
heart frozen, impenetrable even to the genial glow of melting
charity. Such a propensity hath commerce to convert sim
plicity, innocence, and truth, into duplicity, fraud, and false-
hood ; so great its aptitude to remove all things from their
natural basis, and force them on an artificial foundation, that
to it is ascribable the mutations of ancient manners, customs,
and institutions — mutations so great and rapid, as to leave in
a short time, few and very indistinct traces of the original cha-
racter of a people. Did Sydon, the first born of the land of
Canaan, and Tyre, the daughter of Sydon, and Palestina of
the same blood, depart from the ancient usages of their race,
become corrupt and degenerate, the causes I should hope have
been sufficiently explained ; yet though Phoenicia did, from
these causes, abandon divers of their ancient usages, they were
fire worshippers to the last moment of their national existence,
by which I mean their independence. Slaves have no will.

If we take a view of the manners, customs, institutions, and
religion of the Persians, even at the late period of the age of
Herodotus, we learn in Clio, chapter 130,

" That from his own knowledge, they had neither statues,
temples, nor altars, but offered on the tops of the highest
mountains, sacrifices to Jove, by which they meant the deity
of the air ; that they adored the sun, moon, earth, fire, water,
and the winds ; that they gave the preference to trefoil,
whereon they laid their offerings, and that they eat sparingly
of flesh, but drank profusely.''

In the 137th chapter, that " it is not permittable even for
the chief to put any one to death for a single offence."

In the 2d chapter of Thalia, we find that " the custom of
Persia did not admit of an illegitimate son succeeding to the
throne, whilst a legitimate son. existed."

In the 16'th chapter he says, " the Persians venerated fire ;"

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and in the Slst cliapter, " it appears that the judges held
their offices for life, or till convicted of some crime."

In the 2d chapter of Polymnia, Herodotus says, that " The
Persian custom forbade the chief to undertake any expedition,
till he named his successor."

In fine, you will perceive, on reading the Chronicles of Eri,
the striking similarity between the Persian and Iberian Scy-
thians, notwithstanding the height of power attained by the
former on, I may say, their native soil, and the minor conside-
ration of the latter in the lands of their migrations, and to add
to this similitude, I beg to direct your attention to the 193rd
chapter of Clio, wherein, speaking of the funerals of Persia,
you would actually suppose he was describing the present
practice of Eri.

If we bend our course to Ardmenia, there we find the tribes
of this vast family in the full enjoyment of all the primitive
customs of their race.

If we attend the Og-eag-eis to Thrace, we recognize them
by similar manners, customs, and institutions ; as the distinct
tribes from Ardmenia, Egypt, and Sydon, united in Greece,
are identified thereby, though in different stages of society, as
hath been shown.

On the arrival of the shepherds from Egypt, known by the
name of Pelasgoi, we learn, that the Og-eag-eis were scattered
over the territory through which they roved, the tent their
only dwelling, till the Pelasgoi, for the first time, raised per-
manent habitations in Attica and Peloponnesus, having so far
abandoned the ancient usage of the Scythian race in conse-
quence of their long residence in Egypt.

We are informed also, that the Demoi, (people of each com-
munity,) assembled at their Prytanium, nigh unto which stood
Asti, the dwelling of the conservator of the sacred fire, we
hear of Ce-crops reducing, in Attica, the number of Asti,
which had been 170, to twelve ; and of Theseus afterwards
establishing one paramount assembly of the people at the town
of Ce-crop-ia, the name of which he changed to Asti.

Here we have undoubted proof of the manners, customs,

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and institutions of the Scythians, taken on a grand and com-
prehensive riew, we see each community, Demoi, assembling
at its own fire hill Prytaneum ; the actual owners of their little
territory, arms in their hands, transacting their own affairs ;
as circumstances made some alterations necessary, we find many
Demoi uniting into a convention, primitive institutions in no
wise impaired for a considerable time, not till in consequence
of the enlargement of districts, the people only of, and in the
immediate neighbourhood of the metropolis, or place of con-
vention, attended the public assemblies ; whilst those at a dis-
tance absenting themselves, the discontinuance came to be con-
strued into a waver of original right, which in process of time
gave rise to privilege of the rich, and exclusion of the poor,
that grew into system, whereby the privileged assumed powers
not warranted by the laws, which produced in Sparta, in the
course of 400 years, a state of things so much at variance with
the free spirit of Scythian customs, that we find Lyciirgiis
called on to frame regulations for that society ; which were, in
fact, but a compromise befweon the rich and comparatively
poorer citizens, and power and privilege, subjection and ex-
clusion, were legalized, whilst respect for the most material
principles of ancient usage was yet strictly adhered to.

As happened at Sparta so at Athens, the same causes pro-
duced the like effects ; but as the people of Attica did not pro-
ceed so fast as their brethren of Sparta in the work of innova-
tion, more than five hundred years had elapsed before the peo-
ple murmured at their rights being filched from them ; when
Draco, who had been elected Archon by the sole influence of
the rich, therefore privileged, was called on by them to make
laws for the government of the community, which he framed in
the general spirit of privilege, true and loyal to its faction,
every line written in blood, the blood of the poor at the dis-
posal of the rich ; the savage inhumanity he displayed is proof
of the great width of the breach between the different orders,
and of the unsettled state of the society, a fact corroborated
by the appointment of Sohn in ten years afterwards, by the
general voice of the people, and confirmed by his own words in

CXXX DEMONSTRATION.

answer to one who remarked, that the code of laws he had
framed did not answer the expectations formed from his justice
and wisdom. " You are right," said Solouy " the laws are not
so good as I could have composed, but they are as good as the
state of the society admits of." Did the nations of Gx-eece
march forward, and leave not only their own race, but the
whole world far behind in the science of every art, and all the
ornaments of life ? it was by an adherence to the substance of
the institutions of ancient days. Did they become corrupted,
degenerate, and fall under subjection, first of Macedon, then
of Rome, in the more close practice of those original esta-
blishments, slighted by their more refined, less united, bre-
thren } it was by the relinquishment of primitive institutions,
in pursuit of foreign commerce and conquest.

What that is which must not submit to change, wisdom
teacheth man to adapt himself to circumstances, but not to the
surrender of the veriest atom of original rights, founded on
principles, the counteraction of which never fails to produce
inordinate wealth, pHvilege and t^-ranny of the few, and ab-
ject poverty, exclusion, and slavery of the many ; the love of
power and dominion is inherent in man, so is his propensity
to abuse them. A good system will preserve the society in a
good and wholesome state ; a vicious system will make even
men with good propensities corrupt and vicious.

As to religion, an institution by which, in ancient times,
kindred of nations was unerringly recognized, the departure
of the Greeks from the practice of their forefathers is easily
accounted for, by their adoption of the Dii magni majorum
gentium of Egypt, and the machinery attending their intro-
duction, whereby, though a mighty innovation was effected,
FIRE still continued to be the primary object ; on the reception
of these celebrated strangers, we for the first time hear, in
Greece, of temples, deification of illustrious dead, and a regu-
lar hierarchy, the simplicity of gratitude to visible objects for
benefits, and of terror from apprehension of injuries, con-
verted into a complicated system of absurdities, which might
well be thought too palpable for observance and respect, did

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not every page of the history of man, in every age and chme,
furnish abundant proof that nothing seems too gross to hypo-
crisy, nor is too absurd for ignorance. Every memorial of
the ancient state of Greece attests the possession and main-
tenance of the grand principles of the Scythian race, till her
children were partly forced, and partly abandoned from cir-
cumstances, those institutions whereon were founded their glory
and renown, from which time their decay became; rapid and
irresistible.

It hath been heretofoi-e shewn that every colony which en-
tered Italy, were of Scythian origin, as their manners, customs
and institutions demonstrate ; what, though this branch of the
family became in after-times so infamously famous by the
general name of Romans, we have very imperfect accounts of
them for a long season after the founding of Rome, such
meagre notices as they preserved being destroyed by the Gauls
about 250 years after the foundation of the city ; nor did
Fabius Pictor^ their earhest historian, live till about 230 years
before Christ, and even he merely copied a work of Diodes
Peparetheus, a Greek. Not to dwell on the fairy tales of kings
Latinus, (Eneas, and his son king Asianius, and his succeeding
by hereditary right, and the line of kings to Procas, and the
right of primogeniture of his eldest son Numitor, and his
deposition of his brother AmuUus, and the exposure of his two
sons, and their miraculous preservation, and such like fables
invented and strung together from traditions, from a thousand
to five hundred years out of time, let us attend Romulus in
the act of giving a form and consistency to the small commu-
nity, of which he was the elected chief ; behold him and the
elders on the mount Pal-a-tin-us, always held in respect
above all the mounts amongst which it stood, what was the
mount held in veneration #iext to Palatinus ? we are told
Remonius, ever reputed sacred. What was the principal symbol
of their religion ? fire, by the name of Vesta. Who were the
conservators thereof ? Vestal virgins ; they and the priests at-
tending the holy fire, clothed in white emblem of the superior
purity of the sacred element. In offering sacrifice, we hear

CXXXll DEMONSTRATION.

of the priest plucking some of the strongest hairs from between
the horns of the victim, and throwing them into the blessed
fire, prima libamina, then turning himself towards the east, the
point of the first appearance of the sun, and invoking Janus
and Vesta, as through them access was to be had to all the
Gods, he proceeded with the sacred rites.

In their civil institutions, we are informed of their division
into tribes, of the territory being the birth-right of all the chil-
dren of the land, of their public assemblies, of their being
armed, and their impatience under the dominion of hereditary
rulers, to which in fact they never did submit.

If their history makes tis acquainted with the perfect freedom
of their primitive institutions, in conformity with the customs
and usage of their Scythian origin, it also instructs us, that the
semblance of a regular society had not been long formed, ere
those in whom the people confided, commenced the work of
king craft, and priestcraft ; and that the attempts of those
placed in authority to arrogate to themselves unwarrantable
power, erased not for the course of one hundred and twenty
years, the time of the government of the officers, that have been
called kings, nor when they did rid themselves of that species
of master, did those who had obtained power desist from the
endeavour to confirm it to themselves, and their privileged
order ; nor were the peopl e remiss in their efforts to preserve
their ancient usages and rights, till here, as in Greece, a com-
promise took place, and ten citizens were appointed to compile
a written code of laws for the regulation of the society, who re-
paired for that purpose to their progenitors in Greece, from
whence they returned with the laws of the 12 tables ; nor did
the adoption of these laws terminate the struggle between pri-
vilege and exclusion ; were the exertions of the excluded
crowned with success, it was but t;pmporary ; laws were multi-
plied by the rich, which curtailed the fair proportion of the
people, and though inadmissible innovations on first principles
became constituted and established, whilst an attempt on the
part of tlie general to recover rights of whicli they were de-
spoiled, was termed wild and visionary novelty, and alJ who

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abetted the recurrence to original institutions, on which no en-
croachment should have been made, were branded with the
names of conspirators, revolutionists, rerum novarum studiosi,
so vile are the uses to which power can employ language, yet
do we find the people constantly struggling for their ancient
institutions, though covered as deeply as possible by heaps of
modern regulations.

So long as the Romans respected primitive manners and
customs, they were majestic, did they in their turn fall under
subjection to a foreign yoke, was it not in consequence of a
departure from the ancient usages, vitiated by commerce and
conquests, conquests applauded to the skies by the senseless
people, who whilst they followed the chariot wheels of the con-
queror, never once reflected that the triumphs they joyously
celebrated, did but furnish means to their rulers to corrupt and
tyrannize over them, and enable them at length to carry an in-
glorious victory over the laws, and liberties of the country,
nought but specious names, and empty forms suffered in
mockery to exist.

If we contemplate the Gothic tribes of the Scythian race,
"we find them in the practice of the like pastoral manners,
governed by the like customs and institutions, mamtained for
a duration proportioned to their ignorance of trade, commerce,
and foreign conquests, by inflexible adherence to which
original institutions, whereby every individual a free man, with
motives powerful to withstand the aggression of an invader ;
they rendered abortive the designs of Darius, destroyed Cyrus
and all his host, yea more, infinitely more, they convinced
Alexander by the sound reason of practical philosophy, of the
absurdity of attempting to enslave them ; and though a great
portion of their territory was over-run, and moulded into a
provence according to the high Roman fashion by Trajan,
they recovered their liberties by clinging to the substance of
first principles, and maintained their i-ude independence, long
after Rome, once the mistress of all the world known to her,
had lost all but her name.

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Though there is no doubt oi' the Scythian origin of these
tribes, it will not be amiss to notice some few of their manners,
customs, and institutions, as recoi-ded by Herodotus.

In the 2d chapter of Melpomene, he says, " the Scythians
do not cultivate the ground, but lead a pastoral life."

In the 46th chapter, he says, *' the Scythians have no towns
nor fortifications, their habitations they always carry with
them.

In the 59th chapter, he says, " of the divinities of the
Scythians, Fiesto is without competition the principal ;" he adds,
" Mars is the only deity to whom they erect temples, shrines,
and altars." This expression o( Herodotus amazed me so much,
that I doubted his authority, not without reason, for I find
from Ammiajius Marcellinus, " that the Scythians had no tem-
ples, shrine or booth, but that a sword was substituted for a
temple to this God of war," who, was of course a stranger of
foreign importation.

In the 67th chapter, he tells us of their mode of divination
by twigs.

These particulars you will bear in mind, when we come to
speak of the manners and customs of the Iberian Scythians in
Spain and Eri.

On passing to the island of Britain, where I have heretofore
noted the divers nations according to their origin, I have now
to observe that our light is very dim whereby to discover
identity or diversity, but considering religion as an institution,
and collecting all the few accounts handed down to us, we are
enabled to arrive at some facts important to our subject.

What tlie primitive religion of the Aborigines of Britain
was^, has not been ascertained, but we are informed by Jidltis
Ccesar and other Romans at half a century before Chrirt, that
Druidism prevailed ; that this system was transported from
Britain to the portion of Gaul called Armorica, still in posses-
sion of its original inhabitants, is clear from the chief of the
order being resident in this island, whither all those desirous
of becoming perfect in the doctrine, were obliged to repair, cir-
cumstances for which ignorance cannot account, but arc easily

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explained by knowledge of the fact, that Druidism was intro-
duced into Britain by tlie Phoenicians, who never had any in-
tercourse with that part of Gaul, though they colonized Dun-
mionac, that is Devon and Cornwall, 1037 years before Christ,
with divers of their tributaries of Spain, multitudes of the Ga-
al of Sciot of Ib-er, and of the Gaal of Ib-er within Buas-ce
independent people, whom they employed in the mines, as
before mentioned.

That the Scythians of Britain, would not embrace this new
fangled system of the Phoenicians, no one can imagine, though
adopted by the natives of the island, recommended by its
foreign extraction and its novelty, and enforced by power. It
is to be regretted that the Roman writers dealt too much in
generalities, by reason of their want of actual knowledge.

Though at the time of the invasion of Julius Coesar, there
were three distinct and various races of the human kind, the
Scythians of Dun-mianac, of the Silures, and of the Bri-
gantes, the Gerraanni of the Peucini and of the Belgae,
and all the many tribes of the Aborigines, each of whom had
its specific denomination, you derive no direct information from
the Romans, whereby to mark distinctions with satisfactory
precision, all being huddled together by the name of Britanni,
(d) yet hath one expression fallen from Tacitus^ which
establishes the fact, of their being divers religions amongst
these different nations. When Caracticus chief of the Silures
formed an association of the Ordovices and other aboriginal
nations to oppose the invasion of the Romans, and harangued
the confederates previously to the battle that was to perpetuate
their slavery or independence, " they bound themselves by oaths
after the manner of their respective religions, not to yield ;"
what their respective religions were, though not explained, no
one can doubt,. They were the ancient Scythian religion of
the Silures, the ancient religion of the Aborigines and Druidism.

Of the commerce and connexion of the Phoenicians with the
southern coast of Bri-tain, the chronicles of Gael-ag are full,
and though the chronicles of Gaelag and of Eri are silent of
the Silures, X\\ey speak fully and clearly of the Bri-gantes, de-

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daring them to be a tribe of Iber-ians, who having entered into
the employment of the Phoenicians to work in the mines of
Dun-mianac ; being detained by these faithless traders, burst
forth of the bowels of the earth, and steering their course north-
ward, abided on the coasts of present Lancashire, from whence
they spread themselves over York, Durham, Westmoreland,
and Cumberland ; and in part confirmation of the kindred be-
tween the Silures and the Brigantes, I shall here notice, that
when Caracticus, overpowered by the superior skill in the
science of treachery of the Romans, was obliged to seek pro-
tection in some quarter, he did not repair to the Dobini, nor
the Cornavii, his immediate neighbours, but passed over to the
Bri-gantes of his own race. If we hear of Cartismandua deli-
vering him up to his enemies, in violation of the rights of hos-
pitahty, we must attribute the frightful crime to her being be-
reft of reason by the madding passion of love for her husband's
armour bearer, to the frantic hope to which her disordered
imagination gave entertainment, of carrying her prospects into
execution, and the certainty of being upheld for the perfidious
act by the Romans, who gave apreference to virtue or to vice,
only as either promoted their insidious designs. Should sub-
mission to a female, a custom always practised by the Abori-
gines, so contrary to Scythian usage, induce a doubt of the
Scythian origin of the Bri-gantes ; be it remembered, that all
the noble youths and warriors of this nation resisted her autho-
rity, and though she was maintained by her pretended friends
and treacherous allies, who, after the old Roman fashion, as
Tacitus says, " made kings the instruments of enslaving others,"
he might have added themselves also. " Yet did the kingdom
fall to Vcnusius, tlie husband of Cartismandua, and the war to
the Romans.

Before concluding this part of our subject, I beg leave to
offer a few more observations, tending to mark the difference
between the Aborigines of Britain and the Scythian nations
within that island, as well as the identity of the latter with each
other ; the districts I assign to the Scythians are Dun-niianac,
viz. Devon, and Cornwall, at this day ; the country of the Sil-

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ur-cs, now Glamorgan, Monmouth, Hereford, Brecon, and
Radnor; and of the Bri-gantes, comprehending Lancaster,
York, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland. Now when
the Germannic Belgas invaded Britain, which w^as many cen-
turies after the Scythian tribes were estabUshed in that island,
we find them seating themselves in Hants, Wilts, and Somerset,
farther they ventured not, the lands being occupied by Scy-
thians, a people better armed, more advanced in the social
course, and better versed in the practice of war, if not braver
than the natives.

If you consult all the authorities, even Roman, save flat-
tering panegyrists, the time serving poets laureat of their day,
and the fictions of rhymers, who made no scruple of laying,
not Britain only, but the whole world besides, at Caesar's feet,
you will not discover that the Romans ever effected the subju-
gation of Dun-mianac, and you will be informed that the re-
sistance they experienced from the Belgic-Atribates, and all the
native tribes south of Tweed, was trifling compared with the
opposition they met with from the Bri-gantes and the Silures,
every advantage gaicied over them being thought particularly
worthy the loudest strains of praise and adulation ; for the cor-
rectness of which observations, I take the liberty of referring
you to Camden, who has with diligence and fidelity compiled
all the Roman evidence on this subject, to which he added a
meagre topography, a puerile heraldic genealogy, and a most
wretched attempt at a description of Scotland and Ireland ;
which might perhaps have entitled him to the office of king at
arms, but hathgainedfor him, amongst his own countrymen, the
title of " antiquarian, the most learned antiquarian,*' to which
be hath no more pretensions than to be compared with Shak-
speare. Bacon, or Newton, in their respective walks ; such the
miserable state of the knowledge of antiquity amongst a people,
by whom such a man could be reputed an antiquary, but his
large book was written on antiquities, and in Latin.

Have I spoken in very high terms of the Scythian nations
in Britain, I must deprecate any idea of my having so done
in disparagement to the Britons, which would be an act of in-

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justice and of folly in the extreme ; the reverse being recorded
by the very man, the brilliancy of whose glory was cast into
shade by the more luminous splendor of their heroic deeds,
of which the practical demonstrations, first of the men of Kent,
and then of the Cassii, who obliged the tyrant to fly and aban-
don his project, and struck so great a terror in the heart of the
deified Ccesars, their disciplined banditti cased in steel, their
foreign stipendiaries hired, and their wretched slaves forced
to be the instruments of enslaving their fellow men, that the
designs upon the liberties of the Britons were not resumed by
the imperial spoilers for a century afterwards, and when they
did at length succeed in the work of subjugating the greater
part of the island, they were, by the accounts of their own
writers, more indebted for their criminal success to the excel-
lence of their arms, armour, and discipline, and above all, to
their skill in the cursed art of disuniting the people, than to
their superior gallantry in the field. Had the nations of Bri-
tain avoided that one snare, they would have triumphed over
all the legions that Rome could have poured in upon them.

O unhappy Eri, hadst thou steered clear of that fatal rock
Disunion, thou wouldest have laughed to scorn all other machi-
nations of foreign blood-hounds who have made thee desolate,
and by their wiles and abominations have estranged from thee
the affection and duty of thy own proper children, now become
traitors to thee, rebellious sons, false fawning sycophants, who
bend their necks to the yoke, and pay respect and reverence
to men, whose hands are still tinted with the blood of thy race,
which their forefathers poured out on thy bosom, the stain
whereof no time will wear out. Degenerate sons who have so
entirely lost all relish for liberty, as to dare to prophane the
sacred name, by identifying it with admission into the foetid
temple of corruption, anxious only to become joint spoilers of
thee, even in a small degree, and call their treason. Emancipa-
tion, so much are they in love with slavery and corruption ! ! .'

Of a nation so lost I speak not, but if you will compare the
ancient manners, customs and institutions of the various Scy-
thian tribes through the whole extent of the eartli, whereso-

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ever they have abided, with those of the Assyrians in Asia,
the Egyptians in Africa, the Cimmerii, Cimbri, or Germanni,
and the Kelikoi or Celtoe in Europe, you will not find the
sHglitest similarity between the customs and institutions of the
Scvthians, and of any of these nations, save in those instances
wliere some resemblance is ever found in all people in the same
stage of society, before it had entered into the artificial state,
whilst the Sc^'thians are identified every where by perfect
sameness. Should some few shades of likeness be discernable
between the Scythians, and the distinct nations on whom they
bordered for centuries, the Cimbri or Germanni, and the Celtas,
for example, doth not long contiguity account satisfactorily for
the circumstance, without assuming as a fact therefi'om, that
the neighbour people were of one common origin.

The memorials of Persians, Chaldeans, Hebrews, Phoeni-
cians, Greeks and Romans, and of the children of Eri, testify
that they were worshippers of fire, the present emblem of the
sun, the chiefest object of their adoration, nor have their pos-
terity departed from their veneration for fire to this hour, as
the religious ceremonies of the Greeks, Romans, Spanish, and
Irish, bear witness. To which primitive essential, there is not
the faintest allusion amongst the Germanni, nor the Celtae, as
every notice of these people, more particularly the fine des-
cription of the former by Tacitus, and the notices of the latter by
Ca2sar manifest, nay, so entix'ely different were they from the
Scythians in doctrine and practice, that to this original vari-
ance may be traced the promptness wherewith many of the
Germannic nations on their own lands, and the countries whi-
ther Germanni had emigrated, abandoned the remnant of fire
worship, originally adopted by the influence of the Roman
power, adherence to which by the descendants of the Scythi-
ans, they consider a relic of paganism and idolatry.

If in the Druidic religion of the Celtae of Gaul and Britain,
some resemblance to the Scythian be discoverable, the fact is
easily accounted for by its being of Phoenician origin, invented
by that politic trading people in the expectation that prosely-
tisni thereto would be the means of reconciling the natives to

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the intruders ; and when it is considered that this sect pre-
vailed only in Gaul and Britain, your mind may not reject the
suggestion, that to its establishment in the former land might
be ascribed the character at this day of the Gallican church,
a sort of compromise between reason, policy, and enthusiasm,
and on the latter, the marked difference in religious opinions
amongst the ancient Britons. The Scythian Silures, Brigantes
in Britain, and Scoti in Albion, and the Germannic Peucini
Belg£e, Jutes, Sassons, and Angles, the first wavei-ing, moved
to and fro by currents of contrary fancies, the second steadily
attached to fire worship, and communion with their fraternity
of Rome ; the last protesting there against.

These are conclusions of modern days, drawn from the
memorials of ancient times, from which will be demonstrated
that the children of Eri were in the invariable exercise of the
manners and customs, primitive institutions, and religion of
the ancient Scythians, of which traces are yet visible, the pro-
pensity to which still exists, and are practised by the genuine
race in all cases wherein the power of the Sassons that for the
present predominates, doth not interfere.

If I have not spoken of Spain, Aquitania, the Waldenses,
and the Massilii, it is because nothing is known of them,
more than these chronicles attest ; and that from the time
these countries did become known to Greeks and Romans, a
mighty change had taken place in Spain and these lands, in
consequence of the great innovation in religion introduced by
Sesostris, and afterwards by Danaus, into Greece, from
whence the innovation spread far and wide, but not to Eri, the
colony of Scythian Iberians having emigrated to this island in
consequence of, and almost instantly after, the invasion ot
Spain by Sesostris, by reason whereof we of Eri knew nothing
of image worship till the arrival of christian missionaries, who
had not abandoned (nor even yet) veneration for fire, and merely
changed the images of sniveling mendicant priests, called
saints, for the statues of barbarous plundering warriors, called
heroes, under the erroneous idea of their being benefactors to
mankind.

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NOTES TO PART XI.

(a) We learn from Diodonu Siculus, in the commencement of liis work,
that the ancient philosophers held two different opinions concerning this
earth.

Some supposing that the world had neither beginning, nor shall ever
end, that mankind was Irom eternity, there never being a time when he
first began to exist ; others imagining, that the world was made, is cor-
ruptible, and that there was a certain time, when man had first a
being.

And with respect to the cause of the origin of man, and other animals,
and other things, he thus expressess himself :

" Whereas moisture generates matter firom heat, as from a seminal
principle, things so generated by being enclosed in the dewy mists of night,
grew and encreased, and in the day became solidated, and were made hard
by the heat of the sun, and when the embryos included in these ventricles
had received their due proportion, then those slender films, being burst
asunder by the heat, the forms of all sorts of living creatures were brought
forth into the light ; but when the earth afterwards became more dry and
solid, had not the power at length, to produce any more of the greater
living beings, then each that had animal life, began to encrease their kind by
mutual copulation."

Which of these opinions is true, which false, it is not worth while to
bestow many thoughts upon, some fancy this mode of accounting for the
original production of animals, &c. is the most rational ; others fancy the
Hebrew notion is the most rational of all schemes, on which I shall make
but one observation, that every race of mankind have their own fancies,
on the infallibility of which, all insist though each is opposed to other, and
all is but fancy ; at the same tune, I cannot see any reason for the outcry
raised against the doctrine of materialism, on the grounds the outcry is
raised, might not matter have been created by, might not the principle
of life and motion teen the effect of a primary cause ? the point is to dis-
cover what that first cause is ; to which I answer, read the book of Job,
read the writing of Eolus.

(b) Par example. Divers ancient historians, amongst whom Manetho
the Egyptian, expressly says, the Hebrews were originally Egyptians, re-
siding in the district of Pelusium, who were driven out of the country on
account of the filth, and the woeful disease of leprosy, with which they
were constantly afflicted, and that they emigrated to Palestine, when they
built Jerusalem ; here Manetho evidently confounds the expulsion of the
remnant of the shepherds, from Abaris or Pelusium, in 1100, with the
escape of the Israehtes in 1450 before Christ, surely no one will take the
account of Manetho, in preference to that of the chronicles of the people
themselves.

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(c) From the bible translators you are given to understand, that tlie
order of the Pharaoh of Egypt was to hare houses built for the midwives,
who were to be the executioners of the babes ; but I beg leave to say the
edict was to oblige the children of Israel, scattered in their tents after the
manner of their Scythian race, to come together, that the monstrous decree
might be carried the better into effect, and that the midwives may not
avail themselves of the excuse they made, for the escape of some of the
infants, by saying that the Hebrew women being lively, they were delivered
before they could come to them, scattered over the face of the land : — and
here I beg leave to observe, that the bible translators have most scandal-
ously disfigured various passages of the writings of the Hebrews, from the
discordance of the relatives to their antecedents.

((f) With some exceptions which shall be noted when I come to speak
of language, instances that are conclusive to the difference between the
Britannl and Brig antes.

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Of the Language of the Scythian Race.

PAllT XII.

XI AVING conducted you thus far, pointing out in our pro-
gress various criterions of the Scythian race, and of their dis-
similarity from all other ancient people, I come now to exhibit
a record that hath survived all the columns, erected to perpe-
tuate the memory of the subjugation of once independent
nations, and the indiscriminate fate of the millions of human
sacrifices, offered up on the sanguined altars of ambition and
power, by merciless barbarians called conquerors, their names
held in veneration as heroes, men illustrious, instead of being
devoted to just execration as enemies of the human race,
destroyers of their kind. This imperishable memorial is lan-
guage, which, though imperishable, hath undergone divers
mutations, according to a variety of circumstances too obvious
to require particular notice.

This is a subject which, whilst it admits of, and hath been
involved in an infinity of confusion and perplexity, is never
the less susceptible of the clearest demonstration, by an ob-
servance of the plain and simple rule of mounting up to the
very source, as essentially necessary as in hydraulics, wherein
it is not possible to succeed, if the fountain be not thoroughly
explored, and perfectly ascertained.

Here, as on former occasions, we must have recourse to the
Hebrews, by whom we are informed that 2247 years ante-
cedently to the christian era,

" The whole earth was of one and the same language^ which
their God confounded, insomuch that men could not under-
stand each other's speech, to prevent the prosecution of the
building of the tower of Babel."

Cxliv DEMONSTRATION.

However satisfactory this mode of accounting for the variety
of languages found among the many nations of the earth may
be to ignorance, or may be openly and loudly declared to be
by hypocrisy, whilst it inwardly laughs at the whimsical con-
ceit ; to me, who am not in the trammels of ignorance, with
the credulity and prejudices of which I will not palter, at which
I will never wink, who am not damned in hypocrisy, with the
detestable insincerity of which I will enter into no compromise,
this solution is not convincing, therefore I will travel higher
for the spring than the point where the sacred penman, the
inspired writer, hath directed us to find it.

As it hath heretofore been noticed, that architecture was an
art altogether new to the Scythians, till the invasion of the
Assyrians ; so here it is to be observed, that no mention is to
be found, in the writings of the Hebrews, of any difference of
language, till the arrival of a people, who "journeying from
the East, found a plain on the land of Shinar, and dwelt there ;"
and " built the tower and city of Ba-bel," that is, till the ar-
rival of the Assyrians oh the lands of the Scythians. To these
novel, and to them surprising events, the Hebrews assigned
one and the same date ; so far the traditions are founded on
fact, (as most traditions are) whilst the superstructure is the
work of fancy, the falsity of the tales manifested, not only by
the evidence of other ancient people, but by the right reason
of man. When the author of Genesis asserts, that " all the
earth had been of one language," you are to take to account
their invariable mode of expression, their earth was the por-
tion of the globe known to them ; true, all their earth was of
one, the Scythian speech, till the invasion of the Assyrians, on
that event another, the Syriac language, was introduced.

That the Assyrians were much farther advanced than the
Scythians in the art of war, is proved by the fact of their dis-
membering the Scythian empire, and in their progress towards
civilization is to be presumed, from their amazing skill in the
science of architecture ; and though there be no direct autho-
rity for their being versed in the knowledge of letters, it must
be inferred from the circumstance of their having preserved a

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register of their astronomical obsei*vations, commenced in
twelve years after their occupation of Shinar, carried in nine-
teen hundred years afterwards by Cnlisthenes to Macedon,
where it was examined and found correct by -4 mto^/^ ; and as
I before shewed, that subsequently to the appearance of the
Assyrians west of the Scind, there were four genera of the
human species in the west of Asia, and the east of Africa, dif-
ferent each from the other, the variance not have grown out of
a separation from one parent stock, but always distinct pro-
ductions of the elements of their several climates ; so here I
say, there were from that epoch four primitive languages, the
Arabian, the Scythian, Egyptian, and Syriac, totally different
one from the other, the variance not the effect of spiritual in-
tervenlion, preter-natural agency, but of the ordinary opera-
tions of nature, mankind being found to express their thoughts
in different terms, according to their nati9ns, insomuch that
language hath been, and ever must be acknowledged the most
unerring conclusive criterion of origin, it not being conceivable
that any but kindred people could use similar words to make
their wants and passions known.

Though I may content myself with asserting the primitive
difference of these four languages, I shall illustrate the fact
with a few observations. When Abram emigrated from
Chaldea to Canaan, he is represented not only in the practice
of the manners, customs, and religion, but in the use of the
language of the children of that land, with whom he held fre-
quent conference, no mention made of any difference of speech.
But when Jacob, his grandson, entered into a covenant with
Laban, (in the same degree of kindred from Terah, and abided
in Syria of Messipotamia from the time of that country being
subjected to the power of the Assyrian, who is expressly called
a Syrian, and had adopted that language,) and they piled up
stones as a memorial of the promise of friendship, we find
Jacob calling the heap Galead, which is Scythian, which Laban
called Jegar Sahadutha, which is Syriac, both having the same
signification, though no two terms can be more unlike.

So in the time of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib practised on
k

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the government of Judea, the old Jacobinical trick, and sent
Rabshdkeh to speak flattering words to the poor of Jerusalem,
for the purpose of inducing them to become slaves to a foreign
yoke, in order to escape from native slavery. Eliakim said
"unto him,

" Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian lan-
guage, for we {Eliakim, Shehna and Joah,) understand it, and
talk not Tvith us in the Jews language, in the ears of the
people that are on the wall ;" so entirely different were these
two languages, that the knowledge of Rabshakeh of Hebrew
hath been attributed to his being one of the children of Israel,
carried away from Samaria into captivity, by Shalman Assurt
and now selected by Sennacherib for this purpose, whilst the
acquaintance of the Syriac by these Hebrews, is accounted for
by the fact, that it vas studied by men of distinction, and
them only in Judea, as a refined and more polished language ;
moreover, is it not a fact, that on the return of the children of
Israel from the Babylonian captivity, (where their books were
written in the Chaldean language, which was Syriac, with
some mixture of Arabic and Scythian,) was it not the practice
for the priest to read in the temple of Jerusalem, the portions
of the service in that Chaldean language, which not being
understood by the poor people who returned, nor by any of
those who still remained in Judea ; did not another of the
priests interpret these portions of the writings in the Hebrew
tongue ?

If the Scythian differed so entirely from the Syriac, so did
it from the Arab and Egyptian, the difference original, radical ;
of the variance then of these three languages, and of the
Chinese Indi, Tatars, and the many nations of Afric, from
the Scythian, and from each other, I shall speak no farther
for the present, and now confine myself to the consideration of
the Scythian language, and its kindred dialects, throughout
the earth.

From the original seat of the Scythian race, as on the chart,
colonies spread themselves, east to the Scind, south to the
"Ocean, west to the Mediterranean sea, north to Caucasus, the

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seat of the government of this vast empire, the land of
Shinar by Euphrates, from which being expelled by the Assy-
rians, Noe the chief, and a multitude of followers called Noe-
maid-eis, fled to Ardmenia, all the countries not conquered by
the Assyrians, still remaining Scythian.

Of all these Scythian nations, Elam, now called Persia, is
the most famous, both by reason of the maintenance of its
independence, and therewith the preservation of the primitive
language, as well as its celebrity in after times ; this tribute
paid to the antiquity and prowess of this Scythian people, on
crossing Euphrates, and passing westward, Sydon stands in
the first rank of fame, as having attained to the science of vari-
ous arts unknown to their kindred tribes. By the Hebrews
it is said to be founded by Canaan, the grandson of Noe^ their
mode of expressing its high antiquity ; mention is made of it
in their traditions of JacoVs blessing the twelve tribes of Israel,
and in the time of the judges, when some of the tribe of Dan
broke forth in quest of a settlement, in describing Laish, it is
said, how " the people of that place dwelt carelessly after the
manner of thesf^ydonians, quiet and secure ;" nor was its power
shaken in the least by the Hebrews, who never did so much as
enter that country, notwithstanding their incoherent, boast of
" dwelling amongst the Sydonians, though they could not
utterly drive them out."

In the time of Solomon, we find him making application to
Hiram for artificers, to instruct the Israelites to hew timber
for the temple, " for there was not amongst the Hebrews that
had skill to hew timber like unto the Sydonians," as also for
carpenters to construct ships for him, and for mariners to
navigate them, on his acquisition of sea ports in the Arabian
Gulph, and Gezer on the Mediterranean, with wiiich last
Ammon, his wife's father, king of Eg3rpt, had presented^ him ;
all which facts denote long permanent establishment. The
Sydonians had carried on extensive commerce in various parts,
at a time when all other people, as far as we know, were igno-
rant of the science of navigation, and had planted colonies in
Spain, in Afric, at a very early time, and even in Britain, not

CXlviii DEMONSTRATION.

many years after the names of Pelasgoi and Ellas were framed s
it is not therefore to be wondered at, if necessity, for the ends
of trade, had put them early on the invention of characters
durable, signs and figures, whereby to represent words, in
which accompts may be set down and preserved ; accordingly,
we know from unquestionable authority, that to their know-
ledge of navigation, and astronomy, the Sydonians added the
science of letters and arithmetic, in times of very remote anti-
quity.

Now you will be pleased to recall to mind, that a colony
called the Gaal of Sciot, having emigrated from Ib-er, under
the conduct of the brothers, Calrna and Ro-nard, 1491 years
before Christ, arrived at Sydon, from whence they were con-
veyed to Spain, in the north western quarter of which country
they seated themselves, between the Duor, the Iber, and the
Ocean, where when they had sojourned for the space of one
hundred and thirty years, Eolus, the then chief, went to Sydon,
where he was instructed in the science of letters, and on his
return to Gaelag, sent nine of tiie most capable of the people
to be instructed therein also, which gave rise 'to an order of
learned men, called 01am in Gaelag, and in Eri, of great im-
portance in the community, of one of whom it was the office to
write down, and preserve the chronicles of the land which you
are about to read ; antecedently to our fathers becoming ac-
quainted with letters, they used the dialect of the Scythian
tongue peculiar to their tribe, and neighbour kindred nations,
from the time of their acquiring the knowledge of letters, they
called the written language Beolrad-feine, in grateful remem-
brance of the obhgation, Avhilst the unwritten speech was called
Gneat Beolrad, by both which names our written and unwritten
language is called by us at this very day.

Such being the traditionary account of these occurrences
■which hath never been lost sight of, preserved in various re-
cords often cited, though on many occasions so absurdly as to
subject the memorial to the imputation of fiction, the truth of
which is now put beyond question by the writings themselves ;
such being the language of the Scythian race of mankind, of

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Persia, Palestina, and all the land of Canaan, of Ardmenia,
Colchis, Iberia, Albania, and the whole of Asia Minor, of the
Scythian Goths, of all the islands of the Mediterranean sea,
of all the tribes of Thrace, from thence to Panonia, and
Illurake, both inclusive, and of Greece, of Italy, of Numidia,
and Carthage in Afric, Spain, Aquitania, the Waldensis,
Massilia, and a considerable portion of Britain,

I shall now proceed to lay before you a variety of names of
celebrated persons, of lands, waters and institutions, manners
and customs, in the west and north west of Asia, that occur
in the writings of the Hebrews, and other ancient people,
which I shall collate with the language of Eri, from which
every one who can see and read, will have the opportunity of
judging for himself of diversity, similarity, or perfect identity.

SECTION T.

I shall commence with the lands of the Parental Scythians,
as marked on the chart, to which I request, your constant at-
tention ; but previously to our setting out on our voyage, it
will nc-t be amiss to explain the radices of some few words of
the more ancient Scythian language, and to point the variation
therefrom in the more refined dialects of Greece and Rome,
which will be the means of saving frequent repetitions.

Dialect of Greece. of Rome.

of Eri.

Aia la

Aoi and iat, pronounced

ia, a country
Am-nis, this word Aman, pronounced avan,
in compounds and aun, a river
is frequently
pronounced on
and aun

Dun-um

Dun, a strong hold, or
fortified place, generally

on an eminence

Dor, Dour, udor Dur-um

Duor, water

Taxis and es Acies

Eis and seis, a multitude.

host, colony, any great

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Mak-os and mak, Mag-us
in compounds

As, is, us, ax, ox Isc-a. osc-a
Tan-ia Tan

number of people, or
matter in motion
Mag, pronounced Mah, a
plain, and in a large
sense, a widely extend-
ing country

Tan, a district, a sub-divi-
sion of a country
Oi, s^ I, ii Ig, pronounced ih, the no-

minative plural of a peo-
ple.
Let us now commence on the lands of the parental Scy-
tbians, in the dialects of Greece, Rome, and £ri, with their
Anglo Germatmic significations, wherefrom you will see at a
glance the identity of the three first, and their difference from
the last.

Skuthai

Ma-sagetce

Im-ma-os

I-ax-art-es

Ox-OS

Thy-sagetge

ScythsB

Ma-sagetae

I m-ma-us

I-ax-art-es

Ox-US

Thy-sagetae

Sagiotig, this original word
has suffered the various
mutations of Sciot, Scolt,
(a) Scuten, Scuit, Skit,
and Scot

iVlag-sagiotig, (5) " the
plains or wide regions of
the Scythians."

Im-mag, " the head of the
plains"

lat-uisg-ard-eis, (c) " the
confluence of the higher
waters of the country"

Uisg, the water

Tuat-sageotig, the north-
ern Scythians

KOTES TO SECTION 1.

(a) In the 6th chapter of Melpomene, Herodotus says, " generally
speaking, these people are called Scoloti, but the Greeks called them Sku-

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CU

thai," in Scoloti, the i is mere termination, and the latter " o" is Grecian
for Euphonia, ore rotundo. Now if you sound the comparatively modern
mutation Scolt, Sciot, from the original Sagiot, you will readily recognise
the identity of all tlie many literal changes in so many diflfereiit countries,
through so vast a space of time,

(6) Whenever you see a dot, as on g, the final letter is not sounded.
Here you pronounce Mag, Muh.

(c) This compouiid is pronounced " Isk-ard-is ;" you must never pro-
nounce I asj ; we have no / ; nor must you ever sound c as *, as the Anglo
Saxons do almost invariaMy.

SECTION II.

Moving from Parental Scytliia, and proceeding eastward to
the extreme limit of their lands, and from thence to Euphrates,
I find the following

Dialed of Eri.
Sgeind, applied to water, means a
current, now slow, now rapid, of an
uneven, unsteady course
El-am, powerful also
Ce-duor-laoni-er, earth, water, fire,
and air, a title descriptive of his ori-
gin and power
Cai-bla, the point of devotion

Indus, Sind-us, or
Scind

El-am

Che-dor-laom-er, chief
of El -am

Ce-bla, a Persian word
denoting the point
to which the Per-
sians directed their
face in worship

Gaoi, a monstrous er-
ror

Tigris (a)

Hidekel

Gaoi, a falsehood

Tet-gris, sparks of heat ; descriptive of
the peculiar appearance or quahty
of this river, from the influence of
the sun on its waters, which are
very rapid

lat-da-cal, " The country of the two
enclosures," the Messipotamia of
the Greeks, the land lying between
the rivers Tigris and Euphrates

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Euphrates

Acinaces

Aifreidg-eis ; the signification of this
word is " heaps of sudden impe-
tuous swells or risings," accurately
descriptive of this river, which rises
suddenly in consequence of the
dissolution of the snow in Ardme-
nia, which causes the swoln current
to rush with vehemence to the ocean
Scian, a " knife," though we of Eri
called a sword colg, from the land
of Colg, in the mines of which
country they were had, and Clai-
deam, from the destruction that in-
strument causes ; yet. did the war-
rior of Eri carry a scian in his belt,
which was his sword
Saoitreabaos, pronounced Setravesh,
the most noble and learned of the
tribe
Catar-rat-mann-sarac, pronounced Gar-
rah-man-sara, " the seat of the sta-
tion for food." In Eri, the tent or
booth, where the wayfaring one and
the stranger received the rights of
hospitality, 'were called Rath, pro-
nounced Rah
Shi liar, called by the Mag-sean-atar, pronounced Ma-sean-
Hebrews the plain ar, " the plain of the old father,''
of Shinar or " of ancient men"

Ur-o-maz, the great Ur-a-mas, " fire how excellent"
god of the Persians

Note. The Greeks have made Oraniazes of this word, whence it appears
they have formed it in compliance with their idea of Euphonia, to the vio-
lation of propriety, having changed the original " Ur," to " Or," which
hath no signification, and added " es," for termination ; but you will have
frequent occasions of observing in our progress, that they made very light
of sacrificing a radix to Euphonia, or to speak more correctly, to their
fancy of harmony.

Satrapes, chieffc of pro-
vinces in Persia

Caravan sera, houses of
hospitality in Persia,

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Ai-d-sei Jrd-\g, the noble. Herodotus says,

in the 4lst chapter of Polymnia,
tliat the Persians were called by
themselves, and their neighbours,
Art-aei, the d changed to the softer
t, and ce a Greek termination

Artacheeei Ard-aice. In the 117th chapter of

Polymnia, Herodotus calls an illus-
trious Persian by the Greek name
of Art-achaees ; now Ard-aice sig-
nifies the noble one of the tribe

NOTE TO SECTION II.

(a) Pliny fancied this river was called Tigris, from the Persian word
for an arrow. The Scythian race had their name from sagiot, an arrow ;
they would therefore call an arrow Tigris, from the swiftness of the river,
metaphorically, but in very late times, and I am speaking of remote days
and origins.

SECTION lit.

Let us now pass over Euphrates, and traverse the lands
from thence to the Mediterranean, whereon I shall present
you with a catalogue of names of persons, places, and cus-
toms, in alphabetical order, that occur in the writings of the
Hebrews, over against which I will set down the term in the
language of Eri, bearing the same import, of which I will
give the mere literal derivation, with its just pronunciation,
frequently very different from what one ignorant of the lan-
guage would suppose, from seeing the written word ; and for
greater clearness I will use the letter h, though not one of our
letters, in the place of the note of aspiration (■-)

Hebrew or Phoenician Eri, or Phaeiiian Dialect of the Scythian
Dialect of the Scythian Language.

Language.

Ab-ram Ab-ram, even a chief

Ab-raham Ab-radh-am, pronounced Ab-rah-am ;

let him even be called a chief

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Ab-i-melech

Arad
Asshur

AtacI

Barnea

Bashan

Beer
Beer-sheba

Bethel
Chaldea

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Ab-i-muUac, " the head chief of the
land," the title of the superior of
the five Lords of the Philistines.
That this was a titular denomina-
tion attached to station, appears
from the circumstance of the chief
of Philistia, with whom Isaac held
conference nearly a century after
Abraham, being then also called
by the same name

Ard, the height, high land

Eisshoir, " multitudes from the east."
These are the people called Assy-
rians, who are represented in Ge-
nesis " Journeying from the East,
finding a plain on the Land of Shi-
nar, and dwelling there," who built
the city and tower of Ba-bel, hav-
ing disseated the ancient Scythian
government

A ttean, brambles, low growing shrubs,
now usually applied to furze

Bearna, " chasms, clefts, or gaps in
hills"

Both- scan, pro. Bo-shane, " the old
habitation"

Bior, " a well or spring of water"

Bior-sheba, a well made sure, or as-
sured by covenant

Both-el, and so pronounced, because
of the vowel e, to prevent an hiatus,
the house of the powerful

" Caldiath," pronounced " Caldia,""
the enclosed, well protected coun-
try, derived from Calad, to enclose,
shut up, or protected, and iath, a
country

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Ce-mosh, a name for

the sun
Chin

Dagon, an idul of the
PhiHstines

Dor

Elohe, and
El-o-him

En-dor
Halleluiah

The City of Enoc

Ce-mus, " the excellence or delight
of the earth"

Cin, a mournful lamentation, a me-
lancholy singing, practised to this
day in woeful Eri ; the word is ap-
plied to the funeral song over the
dead before burial

Daigon, literally signiiies the mark of
fire, which hath by the bible trans-
lators been metamorphized into a
temple, and the statue of a god,
long before image worship was
practised even in Egypt, where the
novelty originated

Duor, water

El-aoi-e, pronounced El-o-e

El-aoi-im, and El-o-im, the former
expressing emphatically, " he or it
is the might and power of the land ;"
the latter is singular and plural, as
the word to which it is joined, and
signifies " the head or summit, or
perfection of power," precisely
meaning Almighty power

En-duor, " one water," as one branch
of a river

" Uail-ol-uagh," "a mournful loud cry
or howling ;" the two words are the
very same, though in these latter
days differently applied, that of the
Hebrews signifying, praising the
Lord joyously ; but were not all
their religious ceremonies sad and
mournful ? did they not thanksgive
piteously and whiningly ?

Canad, to collect or gather together ;
and so should the Hebi-ew word

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Esek, the well from
which Isaac was ex-
cluded by the Phi-
listines

Galeed the name by
which Jacob called
the heap of stones
whereon he and La-
han exchanged pro-
mise of friendship

Gohah of Gath, the
champion of the
Philistines, with
whom David, the
son of Jesse, fought

Haroaim

Arnon

Jordan

Kadesh

Kedoshah, the name of
Jerusalem

Machpelah, the field
and cave purchased
by Abraham from
the children of Heth
to inter Sarah

Mel-chi-ze-dek

have been rendered, the true signi-
fication of the passage in the ori-
ginal, being, that this person gather-
ed together a multitude of asso-
ciates, such being the only mean-
ing of the word " Canas"
Eisc, exclusion

Gealad, a promise or assurance

Gol-iath of Gath, the champion of
the land, who bore a long spear

pro-

Caoralm, a shepherd
Arnaman, the ravaging river,

nounced Arnaun
Jardamahan, pronounced Jardaun, the

western river with reference to the

great river Euphrates
Ce-deas, the south country
De-dobhaise pro. Cedoshah, the Holy

Land
Magh-beala, the field of death

Mulloc-ce-saoi-deag, the good and
well instructed chief of the land

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Mo-ab
Noe

Phicol the chief cap-
tain of the host of
the Philistines

Rim men

Sa-both

of

Siddim, the vale
slime pits

Sinai, the mount
whereon Moses pro-
mulgated the laws

Mo-ab, my chief

Naoi, pronounced Ne, " a ship," the
name of the last chief of the an-
cient Scythian empire, who escaped
by means of a boat to Ardmenia
from Shinar

Fic-ol, chief warrior, a title amongst
the Philistines

Re-moin, " the mount of the moon"
Sa-both, literally beneath the tent, re-
pose, rest
Seidein, quick sands

Sin-a-i, this word conveys an idea as
sublime as can be conceived by the
mind, and is an expi'ession as nobly
eloquent as was ever uttered by the
lips of man. In Egypt the cliildren
of Israel were in bondage, (slaves
have no country,) nor had they yet
acquired an home, and it being
necessary that rules should be con-
stituted for the good order of the
commonwealth, Moses having as-
sembled all the people about this
mount, their temporary, only dwel-
ling place, he called it, Sin-a-i
" This is their country/'
Tabor Ta-bior, this is the spring

1 Tabor 1-ta-bir, this is the land of springs

Urim and Thumim Ur-im, andl the perfection of fire
Teth-im, f and heat
As I have entered so far into this subject, I cannot refrain
from making a few observations on the foregoing. There can-
not be a greater error, than in supposing that the ancient
names of countries or districts, were derived from individuals,

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on the contrary, the appellations were almost always derived
from natural properties, or particular situation. In the present
case, it happens that this practice is demonstrated by the ac-
curate propriety of every term,— Par example.

If you will cast your eye on the chart of the land of Canaan,
you will see two springs of the river Kison, one issuing
from Mount Tabor, the other from I Tabor, towards the
head of which last stands En-dor. Now pray look to the
southward, you see the river Besor, which takes its rise in a
chain of heights, not of sufficient magnitude to deserve the
name of mountains, through these the waters of Besor work
their way to the Mediterranean, you perceive Kedesh Barna, a
little above the southern source of the river, in front of an
opening in the hills, the only passage from the desert of Paran
into the Champaign ; you are distinctly informed in the 2Cth
chapter of Genesis, that Abraham removed from Mamre to
Kadesh, which is called the south country, not only in
reference to IMamre, but that it was in the southern extremity
of the land of Canaan. How would a man of Er-i at
this very day call places so situated ? precisely as I have set
down above, whilst the term Kadesh, or as in Er-i, Cedeas
avouches identity of origin, Deas being the only word whereby,
at this day, we of Er-i express the right hand, and also the
point of the south, because our fathers always directed their
faces to the east in worship, as did the Scythian race, and of
them the children of Israel, till thet/ ceased to adore Baal, when
amongst the various alterations in their ceremonies, they turned
their backs on the rising sun.

Having now laid before you names of persons, places, and
things, some derived from the natural quality, some from situa-
tion, some from particular occcurence, which have precisely the
same signification in the two dialects of the Scythian language,
as represented by the letters of Phoenicia, used by the tribes
of Palestina and of Er-i, I entreat your attention to the
several terms applied to the traditions and writings of the
Hebrews, many ages after the tribe of Ib-er emigrated from
Asia, the coincidence of which hath amazed me, the more and

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more 1 have pondered thereupon, in order to explain which
clearly, it will be necessaiy to say a few prefatory words on
this part of our subject.

When Ezra, whom I consider the author of the Pentateuch,
compiled various traditions of his nation, as set down in that
work, he consigned a much greater portion of tales still to oral
delivery, to which the Hebrews were as much, if not more at-
tached, and in which they placed as much faith, as in the
writing itself. These traditions in process of time produced a
cast of men, called Tannaim, or mishnical doctors, who em-
ployed themselves in the explanation thereof, expounded ac-
cording to the conception of each commentator, which
expositions being from time to time ingrafted into the mass of
the original tales, and having acquired equal respect, were
encreased to such a bulk, that about an hundred and fifty
years since Christ, it was thought adviseable to make a book
of the traditions allowed by Ezra, and the men of the great
synagogue of his days, together with the expositions of the
mishnical doctors, which book was called the Mishnah, which
was no sooner pubHshed, than their preachers set about
making thereon comments, called Gemara, the Mishnah and
Gemara, being called the Talmud, the teachers whereof first
had the name of Mazorites, then Cabbalists, then Am-o-raim,
then Seb-uraim, then Geon-im, then Rabbi, and last of all
Chacam : Whilst the mode used by the Hebrews of dividing
their writings into verses, was by two points, denoting the end
of each verse, which points or stops were called, *' Soph Pasuk,"
the verse or section, termed, " Pesuk-im," their two first letters
being, " Aleph, Beth.""

These things being thus very briefly explained, permit me
to place before you, in the order of the application of the above
technicalities, each term in the dialects of Palestina and Eri,
with the literal translation of both, wherefrom you will be
qualified to form an accurate judgment,

HEBREW. ERI.

Shan ah, tradition . Shean-as, tradition

Mishnach, a collection Mtois-shean-eis, a collection of tradi-

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tions
Comaradh, pronounced Camara, the
agreement or correspondence in the
composition of writings only

Tuil-mead,
tation

the improved augmen-

of traditions

Gemara, a compHment
or addition in cor-
respondence with an
original

Talmud, the traditions
and comments toge-
ther,

Masorah, same as
Mishnach

Cabbala, the recep-
tion of the traditions

Am-oraim, dictators.

Seburaim, opinionists
on examination.

Geonim, the sublime
doctors.

Rabbi, teacher.

Chacam, a wise man.

Pesukim, the head of
the verse, that is,
the point whereat a
a verse began.

Soph Pasug, two stops
or points.

Aleph, Beth, the two
first of the Hebrew
letters.
To all which let me add that our writers of ancient days,

when a sentence or verse ended in the middle of a line

denoted the termination thereof by two stops, thus ()

Was I not apprehensive of drawing the catalogue to a length

tiresome, unsuitable to a treatise of this kind, I could have ex-
tended it to a moiety of the vocabulary ; but it is to be hoped

that the specimen here given will suffice, more particularly

as it embraces so great a variety of terms.

Mass-radh, a collection of sayings
Gabailta, received, taken, or accepted

Am-a-radh, even their saying

Suraim, I investigate, search, or ex-
amine

Gnia-im, the head or perfection of
learning

Rabach, an admonisher or teacher

Shagach, a wise man

Beasg-im, the head point

Saim Beasga, pronounce Sauph Beas-
ga, a pair or couple of stops or points

Ailmh, Beith, the two first of the
letters of Er-i

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It may be thought that the difficuiy would be insurmount-
able of drawing a just conclusion of the sameness of these two
dialects of the Scythian tongue, because of the Hebrews not using
vowels, and the danger of substituting the sound of one vowel
for that of another, but in all the instances I have adduced,
the identity of language is manifested by the same words being
accurately descriptive of persons, places, situations, qualities,
and even technicalities, had the variance being tenfold greater
than it is, it might reasonably be accounted for by time, and
a multitude of circumstances which that great transformer, nay
consumer, seldom fails to produce.

Should you be desirous to become acquainted with the
history of the Hebrew writings, and the explanation of the
various traditions, readings, and the terras applied thereto, and
to the expounders thereof, I beg leave to refer you to the 3th
book of the 1st part of Prideaux's Connection, where you \nll
find the whole made perfectly clear and satisfactory,

SECTION IV.

Taking our departure Irom Palestine, let us move to Ar-
menia, whither Noe fled from Magh-seanar ; before we enter
these parts, I must notice that Colchis received an Egyptian
colony a thousand years before Christ ; that the Greeks tra-
versed, and the Romans subjected, all these countries, wherein
the latter people changed names of places to a conformity with
their own construction of the primitive Scythian language, the
alterations easily discernable by reason of kindred speech, an
observation not called for in the preceding section, because the
Greeks did establish themselves in, and the Romans did re-
duce to the state of provinces the land of Canaan, we have
from the Hebrews, names of persons, places, and things, in
their original name, hundreds of ages before these Scythian
tribes, who had moved westward as colonists, returned east-
ward in the shape of conquerors, long antecedently to the emi-
gration of a Gaal of Sciot from Ib-er, a circumstance that
marks the preservation by the children of Israel, and the ad-
herence of the children of Er-i to the primitive language of

clxii

DEMONSTRATION.

which you can judge,
tions, are set before
phabetical order.
Ar-men-ia
Arrarat-rain-U

Ar-ax-es

Alb-ban-ia

C«u-caa-us

Colch-is

Mare Eux-in-um

, when the original words, with the ahera-
you, to which 1 shall now proceed in al-

Ard-mionn, the summit of the height.

Air-rearacht-mionn-e, " This is the
apex of the ascent," in fact the land
of Ardmionn had its name from this
famous mountain

Ar-ursg-eis, " The impetuous ravag-
ing confluence of waters."

Ailb-binn, " The pinnacle of the
heap of confused heights," as shall
be farther remarked on, and ex-
plained

Gaba-Casan, pronounced Grou-Casan,
" The Smith's path," see note in the
Chronicles

Colg, a sword, in this country were
the mines from whence all the
neighbouring tribes had their swords,
and vessels of brass

Moir Eis-amhan, pronounced Eis-aun,
*' The sea of the multitude of ri-

Gomer, the tribes of
Pontus on the
Euxine, and on the
coast of Phrygia

Japheth

la-van

Ib-er-ia

vers.
Gomur; to the sea, which circum-
stance gave rise to the specific de-
nomination- Gomurig

lathfoth, pronounced la-foth, " The
foundation of the land." This son of
Noe was the first chief of the Scy-
thian race who commenced his reign
as a native of Ardmionn

lath-ban, the emigrator, pronounced
lafan

Ib-er, the place of Er, " The land of
heroes," now pronounced by mo-

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Magogia

Meshech

dorns ive ; the preposition to nu-
merous districts in Eri, at this day
strangely corrupted by Englisli
Avritcrs to " Hy," neither of which
letters are in our alphabet, in which
they have been followed by native
scribblers, who have pretended to a
knowledge of our ancient language

Magh-og, the plains, or lands, or re-
gions of Og, see note in the Chro-
nicles, where it is demonstrated
that the name of this chief was Og,
as Og of Bashan, Og-eis, Ceann,
and the hke, and that the country
he ruled was Magh-og, the cause of
the corruption made palpable and
obvious at first sight

Meas-aice, " The tribe of the land of

Noniades Naoi-maid-eis, " Noe's multitude

routed in battle." This is the true
signification of this term, the follow-
ers of Xoe from the plains of Shinar
to Araxes

Tubal Tubal, the original name of Ib-er,

preserved by the Hebrews, it was
the people of this country that Og,
and the children of the Noe-maid-eis,
drove north of Gaba-Casan, as
mentioned in the chronicles of Eri,
and more particularly explained in
the note on the word Caucasus.
They were famous in the use of the
sling, which we adopted, and still
call from them Crann Tubail, the
staff of Tubal.
Such are. the primitive names of these celebrated persons and

Clxiv DEMONSTRATION. '

places in Armenia, and the neighbour countries, which, as
you perceive, do not differ much fx-om the Roman, indeed in
nothing- more than the terminations, save Euxinum, in which
they have made great havoc ; with Arrarat iNIinii, la-foth,
Mescheth, and Tabal, they have not meddled, they stand in
their original form. That the names given by the Romans
are correct, I presume you are capable of judging; whether I
am literally accurate or not in the orthography and explanation
of the terms in the Gael-lag language, I appeal with confi-
dence to all those of Er-i, and of Ailb-bin, who have know-
ledge of the ancient language. In truth, every word is set
down with undubitabk exactness, and is, as you will discover
by acquiring adequate information, accurately descriptive of
the object presented to you.

SECTION V.

Though the tribes of Og-eag-eis have precedence, as the
first that had separated from the stock of the Noe-maid-eis,
yet for the sake of connecting our subject more closely, I shall
first pass to the north of Caucasus, and notice the names of the
principal tribes, lands and waters, in that quarter, adhering to
the method and order hitherto pursued.
Artiscus Arduisg, the upper water

Ror-is-then-eis Borr-uisg-tan-eis, the confluence of

the swoln waters of the land
Cimmerii, Cimbri Geimarig, people of a dark and

gloomy region
Celts? Ceiltig, " concealed," " hidden from

view," another term applied by the
Scythians, to the European tribes,
because of their being concealed in
the forests with which that quarter
of the world was encumbered
Dacia Deas-iath, the south country, the tribe

whereon was called by the Romans
Daci, they were a Gael or kindred
of the Gothic Geta;, and had the

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specific denomination of Daci,
merely because they dwelled in the
south, and were in fact, the most
southern of all the Goths. I shall
always remark on this word Deas,
which is to be found amongst all
the Scythian tribes from the Sgeind
to the utmost extremity of Eri, to
signify the south, and the right hand,
as before noticed in Ke-desh, in the
land of Canaan, and again and
again to be repeated, through the
entire course of the migrations of
the Scythian race

Dauria Douriath, the land of water, Dor of

the Hebrews, Udor of the Greeks,
Dur-um of the Romans, as appears
in the termination of compounds,
and Hydro, in the beginning of
others. We learn from Von Strah-
lenburg, that " This country is
called Dar-ia or Dauria, from its
being I'ull of waters and rivers, in
comparison with the Mungal and
Kaln)uck countries, which are very
dry and barren"

Gothi Gcth and Gath, a long spear, from

adopting which on the invasion of
the lands of the Geimarig or Ceiltig.
This Scythian tribe assumed the
specific denomination of Goth, so in
Philisiia Gol-iah of Gath, the haft
ol' whose spear was like a weaver's
beam

Getfe Geat, Milk, this tribe of Goths derived

their name from their living on milk

clxvi

DEMONSTUATIOX.

GeiTUfy

^epidee
lazygeir

Ister

Maurus

Pan-on-ia

Tyr-as

Theyss or Tobesk

Tana-is
Tetraxitae

Sucli are the names
thian language of the
observed, that besides
was introduced into th

and cuid, they are the Galactophagi
of Horner, which signifies milk-
eaters, and in the language of Eri,
is Geallacd-Foghac, a livei on white
(that is) unskimmed milk, but by
the addition of fogh-ac should with
more propriety be rendered curd-
eaters

Garbuisg, the rough boisterous water

Cc-buaid-e, it is the land of a mixed
multitude

Eac-seig-aos, " Champions on horses,'"
these were Sarmatas auxiliary
cavalry to the Goths, who gave
them grants of lands for military
service

Uisg-tur, the water of the land

Mor-uisg, a great water

Ban-amhan-iath, pronounced Bannaun-
nia, " The river barrier country,'"
critically descriptive of its situation
and circumstance

Tir-uisge, of the self-same significa-
tion as Ister, with merely a different
construction of a term

Taoi-uisg, the winding river or watei-,
as will be farther noticed

Tain-uige, the water of the country

Traig-uisg-ti, " The men of the
country to the sea shore," the name
of a tribe of Goths who dwelled
about the lake Moeotis, and down
to its mouth on the shore
and signification in the primitive Scy-

above tribes and places. It is to be
the Scythian, another Asiatic language
is northern <]uarter of Europe, by the

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Sarmatae, called Sclavonic, whilst the native tongue was Finn,
Litwa, Tudesque, Scandinavian, as different from the Scythian
and Sclavonic, as these latter were from each other, or as the
Scythian was from the Assyrian, Arab and Egyptian, as dis-
tinct as their respective origins.

To these let me add as properly belonging to these parts.

Oghus Khan

Vesta

Zamolxis

Baskars

Urat

Og-Eisceann, <* Og, the head of the
host," this was the celebrated chief
of the Goths who invaded Media,
about 640 years before Christ

Tabite, Herodotus says in the 59th
chapter of Melpomene, that in the
Scythian tongue, Vesta is Tabite ;
when we arrive in Greece, you will
be distinctly informed that Estia
was a Grecian mutation from Asti,
the dwelling of the conservator of
the sacred fire, the Roman name
for which was Vesta, all of them sig-
nifying, and alluding to fire, which
Asti, Estia or Vesta, are called by
the unlettered Goths Tahiti, now
Teth-biota pronounced Thebitha,
means the heat of life

Siam-mole, the fire of the Sun, a man
of these Getag who was worshipped
by the above name

Beacaire, " A feeder of bees." There
is a tribe of Nomades in Russia,
called Baskars, whose occupation is
tending bees, and they live on the
borders of the river

Ur-iat, " The place of the fire," the
names of the chief place of all the
Scythian tribes had reference to fire

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SECTION VI.

From tlie time of our departure from the land of Canaan,
whilst we traversed Ardraenia, the countries neighbour thereto,
and the lands of the Goths, you have had no certain criterion
to resort to, resting your opinion principally on the aptitude
of the terms to the description of the objects ; but when we
shall pass the Bosphorus, whither I am about to conduct you,
the case will be altered ; there you will have abundant means
of judging of the diversity, or identity of the language of
Greece and Eri, but previously to our undertaking this voyage,
a few observations are to be made touching the positive and
relative circumstances of the two countries, and the causes
which have produced the variance, that is to be found in the
dialects at the era of the greatest refinement of the former, as
appears at this day in the writings of their purest style, and
in the original, rude, unpolished form of the latter, in its
highest state of improvement, as written by the 01am, and
educated, when it was the living language of the children of
the land.

Though the Hellenes, Pelasgt/i, and Akaioi, were all of
Scythian origin, you have seen, in a former part of this trea-
tise, that the connexion was very remote, even between the
two last, though much more nearly allied to each other than
either was to the Hellenes ; yet all spoke in the same tongue,
though in dialects somewhat different, the Hellenes in the
primitive speech, the Pelasgoi with a tincture of Egyptian,
and alien terms and phrases adapted to new acquirements,
during their sojourn of SoO years in a foreign land ; whilst the
Akaioi had been for ages versed in the science of letters, first
introduced into Ogygeia from Sydon, by Cadmus, about 1040
years antecedently to the christian era, and thence propagated,
and became the standard of all the Scythian tribes of Greece;
from that time, though the progress of the refinement of the
language was slow, it was gradual, yet so great is the variance
between the sound of the voice in the pronunciation of words
before the attainment of letters, and that which characters re-

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presenting the same word produce, that the circumstance had
wrought a wide distinction between the dialects of the Phoe-
nicians, of the Hellenes, and of the Pelasgoi ; and so in-
veterate is ancient usage, that the Akaioi in the neighbour-
hood of the Hellenes on the one side, and of the Pelasgoi on
ihi other, abandoned their more improved dialect, and adopted
the more primitive dialects of these two unlettered tribes, their
speech being more consonant to the ear of their equally un-
lettered brethren ; for it must not be presumed, though Cad-
mus, the Idaei Dactyli, and men of eminence, were conversant
witli letters, that the mass of the people were instructed in
the use thereof. But in process of time, from the universal
prevalence of education, when letters became the fixed and
durable standard, all the tribes of Greece conformed with
trifling variations to one and the same mode of expression, the
first step towards the improvement of which was a rude com-
pounding of primitive terms, invariably monosyllables, which
improvement was, from time to time, carried to that degree of
exquisite refinement for the purposes of writing, or the ends
of speech, as all ^vho read the works of the Greeks feel and
admire; to such a state of refinement did they bring their
language, so metaphorical, not in style only, but in the compo-
sition of the terms themselves did it become, in which more
respect was had to elegance than to literal signification, so
closely was Euphonia observed, that original form was made
as much as possible to bend thereto, by which practices the
ancient language was taken off its basis, many primitive words
were wholly abandoned ; whilst many more are recognizable
only in compounds, and there in a shape somewhat changed.
In consequence of all which, a new department in the
republic of letters was created, called etymology, and speak if
doth in more nice and delicate articulation, than the powers
of those modems of Cimmerian origin, who have assumed
the office of being instructors in the science, are capable of
uttering, as appears from their absurd ill-digested perform-
ances. Yet why say ill-digested ? nought can be digested by
mind or body that hath not been received therein. How can

CIXX DEMONSTRATION.

one, unskilled in the primitive simple terms of a compound,
separate the parts so as to shew the value and signification of
each and of the whole r What would be said of a man pro-
fessing the art of chemistry, who was wholly ignorant of the
several properties and elements of which a mass was com-
posed ? If a considerable difference appears in the dialects of
Greece and Eri, it is possible your mind will not reject with-
out due consideration, the solution to be found in the fore-
going, and in the different circumstances of the two people ;
the one isolated either in Gael-ag or in Eri, for 2500 years,
without intercourse with any other people, save the Phoeni-
cians, and those of their own race in Biscay ; and that only
for the first 500 years of that time, no attempt made to invent
a new figure besides the sixteen originally received, to express
a customary sound, but recourse had to a dot thus, • or to the
addition of some consonant with which the word had thereto-
fore been overcharged to supply the defect. The other in com-
munication with the whole civilized world known to them ;
themselves the foremost in the file, who had formed figures to
represent every tone of the human voice, and had attained an
excellence inimitable in all arts and sciences ; notwithstanding
these causes, sufiiciently adequate to effect a variance so great^
as to render an attempt to prove their identity a work of great
difficulty, the most perceptible difference to be found at this
day between these two dialects, consists in the greater number
of compounds in the Grecian, and hath proceeded from the
Grecian fashion of forming words to sound harmoniously to
the exquisite ear of that highly polished people.

I have therefore to request that you will not suffer yourself
to be led astray from the original language by Grecian ter-
minations, nor yet by the alterations of the radix for the pur-
pose of adapting words, particularly compounds, to the genius
of the refinement of the Greeks. In simples the change
wrought by them, consisted for the most part in the expulsion
of letters, with which the primitive Scythian language
abounded, (as in all original unimproved languages) and doth
abound, as to be seen at this day in the language of Er-i,

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enough, however, of the radix hatli been preserved by the
Greeks, to enable one acquainted with the original tongue, on
whicli they have formed their dialect, to discern and demons-
trate the family likeness to the dialect of Er-i, notwithstanding
the elegant and more captivating dress in which they have
decked the ancient language.

From the same source that the Greeks derive their language,
do the children of Er-i derive theirs, from the same font that
the Greeks drew their original sixteen letters, did the children
of Er-i draw theirs. Cadmus having taken from Sydon the
sixteen Phoenician characters of the Scythian language (all that
were then in use) to Ogygeia, 1040 years before Christ, Eolus
having taken the same letters from Sydon also to Gael-ag,
about 1360 years before that era, to which number our Ailm
Beth (alphabeta) is still confined.

To these observations I take the liberty of assuming as a
fact, which shall be fully demonstrated when I come to com-
pai'e the dialects of Sydon and of Er-i, that the dialect of Eri-
8tands in a shape more hke unto the original language than
that of Greece, the former having been subjected to very few
and trifling alterations, the latter so cut up, as to be rendered
susceptible of various derivations of an infinity of compounds,
(a vast number of which serve but to expose the total ignor-
ance of Etymologists) the fashion of uniting the simples of
which they are composed, being mere matters of taste, but as
the language of Er-i consists for the most part of simples, you
must not expect to find them put together after the same man-
ner, in the same figure or order wherein the Greeks have con-
joined tlicir simples, whilst the primitive words once common
to both, still adlxu-ed to in Er-i, on which the Greeks have
formed their dialect, shall be set down and literally explained,
which, when you shall have carefully examined, and duly con-
sidered, probably your first sensation may be of surprize, that
no greater difference should be found to exist between the two
dialects ; to which may probably succeed that of amazement
at the identity of the language of tribes, so long and so widely

elxxii DEMONSTRATION.

separated, so inveterate is language, so adamantine, so con-
clusive a criterion of the origin of nations.

This exposition is so novel, so opposed to opinions long
established, that men will be loth to surrender the knowledge
they have acquired, and accepted for wisdom, to information
conveyed through the medium of a language they have been
in the constant habit of despising, and calling by all manner
of foul and opprobrious epithets, though wholly ignorant of
its elements, construction, yea, of its very name ; but the world
is never too old to learn, and though prejudice may be too
strong at the present against the admission of truth, an hope
may reasonable be entertained that such may not always be the
case, especially as the more the facts herein set forth are in-
vestigated, the more and more veracious will they be found.

These things premised, let us now proceed to the examina-
tion of all the names of countries marked on the chart, as the
seat of the Og-eag-eis, Pelasgoi, and Akaioi, and of some
celebrated persons, institutions and events ; to which I shall
subjoin a catalogue of Greek words, which I shall collate with
words of Eri of 'the same signification, observing the foregoing
order, except that I shall commence with lavan, and the Og-
eageis, the people whose lands they invaded, and the passage
by which they entered, as the most suitable introduction to this
most interesting subject.

Dialect of Greece. Dialed of Eri.

la-van, this is not a lath-ban, tlie emigrator. He was the
word of the Grecian first that separated from his bre-
dialect, though it thren the Noe-maid-eis of Ard-
be of the language, mionn, the literal translation of the
by reason of its word « He went from his country'*
kindred with the
Hebrews, it was not
amongst the letters
of the Scythian?,
therefore, the Greeks
would call this per-
son, Aiaban

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Ogyges, supposed to
be an individual, a
king of Attica, in
1766, before Christ

Allo-genes, translated
Gentiles, the term
applied to the abori-
ginal people of the
part of Europe in-
vaded by the Scy-
thian Og-eag-eis

Bos-Phorus, the name
of the water by
■which the Euxine
discharges its water
into the Mgean sea,
the passage of the
Og - eag - eis into
Thraxe, supposed
to be derived from
Bous, cattle, and
Porus, a way or
passage

Og-eag-eis, " the diminution of Og's
multitude," the explanation hereto-
fore given on this head, has, it is to
be hoped, confuted all the fabulous
relations, and demonstrated the fact;
it is to .be farther remarked, that
the name of Og-eag-ia hath been
applied to Eri, from tradition, and
fragments of old poems, at a time,
and by men, who had no idea of
founding a system thereon, but
merely because the fact of the Gaal
of Sciot having emigrated from
Ib-er, which was one of the nations
of Magh-Og, has never been lost
sight of, and you will find by the
chronicles of the Iberian tribes in
Spain, they called themselves Og-
eag-eis, and Noe-maid-eis

Gein-aile, " Of another genus of the
human species," as before mention-
ed

Cos-foras, compounded of Cos, the foot,
and Foras, a way thiough or over
water. In the dialect of Greece,
Pous came to signify the foot, which
I take to be a corruption of Cos,
and that Phuras was a way over
water, we find in the accusative of
Ge-phuras a bridge; here let us
remark that neither p h nor <p were
of the original letters of Greece or
Eri, the sound of the former being
denoted by/, therefore Phuras must

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DEMONSTRATION.

Amphyction, a sup-
posed son of Deu-
calion, by whom
the council called
Amphyction was
instituted

Arcadioi

Astu, the name given
to Ce-cro-pia by
Theseus, on his con-
solidating the 12
Astus established

have been an alteration from Foras,
for these reasons as well as the want
of meaning in Bous-poros, I con-
ceive the true signification of this
term to be, the way by which the
Og-eag-eis passed into the land of
the Allo-Genes, and that the ori-
ginal words were Cos-foras, first
changed to Pous-foras, and at length
on the acquisition of the letters p
and A, to Bos-Phorus.

Am-fic-tain, " as well town as coun-
try,"" a name derived from the na-
ture of the institution ; the election
of deputies by certain communities
of Greece, to represent the whole
thereof, " those in villages, as well
as those scattered over the territory ;
an individual, Amphyction, is a
creature of fable, whose existence
may be more than doubted, when
his era is misconceived by nearly
500 years ; moreover the Greek
wcard must be a corruption, for
they had no such letter as (p till
Palamedes invented it, and he did
not live for 600 years after the sup-
posed age of the fabulous Amphyc-
tion

Airceadig, the people from the first ;
proof of the aboriginality of the
Arcadians

Asti, " a dwelling ;" at this day it de-
notes " within," " at home." This
was the term applied to the fixed
dwelling of the guardian of the
sacred fire, from which the Tethgne

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by Cecrops, and
erecting this city
into a metropolis,
afterwards called
Athene

Achaia, a district of
Greece, first called
the land of the Cu-
retes, said to derive
its name f rom Achos,
sorrow. What ab-
surdity !

Eleusis, a city in
the north of Atti-
ca, the first perma
nent establishment
in Greece, of the
tribe of the Og-eag-

Ephori, officers of
Sparta appointed to
watch over the
rights of the people

iEtol-ia, a district of
Achaia, or the land
of the Curetes

was kindled on the bri, or mount to
assemble the congregation of the
people, which continued burning
whilst they abided together. This
dwelling'bjcame, after the introduc-
tion of the gods of Egypt into
Greece, transfigured into Estia, the
Goddess of Fire
A gh-cath-iath, pronounced A-cah-ia,
" the land of the feats of arms in
battle." This shall be fully explain-
ed under the head of Kadmos

" El-eis-eis," the accumulation of the
powerful; eis-eis, hterally means,
multitude on multitude, changed
by the Greeks to Nesis. That they
did not in after times call this place
Elnesis, cannot be accounted for
only by Eleusis being considered a
word of more softness and harmony,
to which they never scrupled to
sacrifice the original language

Faire, a watchman

Eitleadh-iath, from Et-l-ia, " the
land of flight."' This country had
its name from^ a tribe of the Og-
eag-eis, (expelled from Peloponne-
sus, by the Pelasgoi) flying thither,
where they were granted a settle-
ment by the Achaioi. It is also said
that the chief of this tiibe of Og-

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DEMONSTRATION.

Herodotus says, in his
41st chapter of Po-
lymnia, that the
Persians were once
called Cephenes

Bo?o-t-ia, the first re-
corded name of
which was Og-eag-
ia, then Kadmeis.
It is said to owe its
name to oneBoeotus,
a son of one Itonus;
or " a bove," from
a cow, by which
Kadmos was con-
ducted into the
country. Mercy on
us ! after this man-
ner are the youth
of Europe instruct-
ed. Here we have
Cimmerian etymo-
logists, speaking in
the Roman tongue,
and deriving from
it a Grecian name,
hundreds of years
before the Roman
language was fonued

eag-eis, whose name was CEtolus,
fled, on having killed Apis, to this
country, from El-is, and that from
him the land was called CEtolia ;
but the fact is, both individual and
country derived its name from the
flight, be the cause thereof what it
may

C^abfine, the head or chief tribe
Bo-iath, " the land of cattle ;" the let-
ter t introduced by the Greeks to
prevent hiatus. The soil of this
country was very rich, and abound-
ed in cattle ; and from the people
indulging themselves in eating ani-
mal food, and from the weight of
the atmosphere, they were account-
ed the most dull and rude of all the
Greeks

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Bri-ses, a priest of Ju-
piter, the father of
the girl, for the pos-
session of whom, ac-
cording to Homer,
Agamemnon and
Achilles contended

De-meter, said to be
derived from Ge and
Meter, the mother
of the earth. This
is a whimsical alter-
ation of the word
Ge, for which there
is no accounting.
She was the God
dess of Agriculture,
according to mytho-
logy, the absurdity
of which, I wish to
correct^ as the bane
of history, destruc-
tive of the truth of
the memorials of
antiquity

Epir-os

Ellas,

part of Greece pro-
perly so called

Bri-seis, " he sat at the mount." In
this word we recognize the ancient
term Bri, the mount where the
Demoi assembled, close to the Asti,
the dwelling of the priest ; though
the Greeks accepted the gods of
Egypt, they never abandoned their
veneration for fire, the present em-
Wem of the Sun, the primitive ob-
ject of their adoration

Ce-maid-ar, " the breaking up of the
earth by ploughing." This person-
age, who had also the name of Ce-
res, was of Sicilian origin, a coun-
try remarkable for its fertility and
€arly improvement in agriculture.
She might have come from thence
to Eleusis, and might have instruct-
ed the young chief of that land in
the science of husbandry, for which
she was held in grateful remem-
brance. The mother of the earth
she could not be called with any
colour of propriety, her era being
perfectly ascertained., and compara-
.tively modern

Aoi-bir-eis, " the country of many
springs," critically descriptive of its
natural property

El-aos, " the country of the power-
ful." El is synonymous with all;
ol, a word of great signification, de-
noting excellence, and eminence in
the highest degree, a name given to
tills land of a tribe of the Og-eag-
m

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Ellen, a supposed son
of a person called
Deucallin, a crea-
ture of fable

EUenes, a tribe of
Greece, of wbom a
most confused and
incoherent account
liath hitherto been
presented to the
youth of Europe

Ellotes

Emathia, the most an-
cient name of Make-
don, supposed to
have had its name
from a king Ema-
thion

Ce-cro-pia, in latter
times Attica; sup-
posed to be called
from a man Ce-
crops, it is to be ob-
served that Kroke
is a shore, and

eis, on becoming stationary, after
the manner of the Pelasgoi and
Achaioi

Elen, " the powerful one." This per-
son was the chief of a tribe of the
Og-eag-eis, who advanced to the
country south of Thettalia, and
abided there ; he rendered himself
illustrious by curbing the Pelasgoi,
who issuing from Peloponnesus, had
invaded divers occupations of the
Og-eag-eis

El-en-eis, " one host of the powerful/'
they were a tribe of the Og-eag-eis,
who, proceeding from Thrake,
strayed south to Thettalia, and from
thence settled on the land immedi-
ately south thereof, called Ellas,
from them all the Greeks were in a
large sense EUenes

Allod-eis, the people of ancient days.
Allod, signifies time beyond record
or memorial

Aoi-magh, " the land of plains," a
level country, the same name, and
for the same reason, as the Hebrews
called the country of Canaan, of
which Sydon was the capital, Ha-
math ; called in the chronicles of
Eri, Aoi-magh

Ce-cro-baidh, pronounced Ce-cro-bi,
" the narrow land of waves,** an
Isthmus; the individual Cc-cro-ps
is a child of fable, the above com-
pound is accurately descriptive of
Attica

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the transposition of
the words to Kec-
ro, would be nor
thing in the estima-
tion of the Greeks
(a) Kad-m-os, the Sy-
donian chief, who
emigrated from Sy-
don to Og-eag-ia,
from him called
Kad-m-eia, where he
founded Kadmeis,
afterwards called
Thebes

Kal-u-don, a town of
(Etolia, saidtohave
its name from a son
ofCEtolus, who fled
hither from El-is

lapides, a region to
the west of Illurike,
inhabited by Scy-
thians. Cimmerii,
and Ceiltig

Illurike, the western
extremity of the
' lands of theScythian
tribes, extending
from Thrake to la-
pides

Liburn-ia, a district of
Illurike, on the
Adriatic

Cath-im-eis, " the head of the host in
battle," from this chief the Akaioi,
and the northern land of Akaia,
had their names ; he it was who in-
troduced the sixteen Phoenician
characters of the Sydonian dialect of
the Scythian language into Greece,
A B cdefgilmnorstu, to
which Palamedes, who died during
the Trojan war, added Th, H, ^.^ <p,
and Simonides, who lived 540 years
before Christ, made the farther ad-
dition of e, z, ■]^, o

Cal-a-dun, ''shut up amongst hills,"
and shall be farther explained when
we come to the Wal-den-ses, and
the north of Britain

lath-buid-eis, pronounced la-bid-es,
" the land of a mixed multitude,"
corresponding exactly with the ac-
counts of antiquity

Eil-ear-aice, " the other end or ex-
tremity of the tribe," this term shall
be more fully explained when we
arrive on the banks of the waters of
Ib-er in Spain

Libearn-iath, " the country of a par-
ticular kind of ships called Libearn,"
called by the Greeks Liburnon

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Meas-iath, <* the land of acorns'

Makedon, said to Mag-eaden, " the face of the planes,"

owe its name to a the chart shews the strict propriety

king Makedo, such of the name

another as Ema-

thion, of neither of

whom did the world

ever hear,tiU created

to give names to

countries
Mses-ia, a district of

the vast country of

Thrake
Pelasgia, the ancient

name of Pelopon-
nesus, the people of

which were called

Pelasgoi, by which

names all Greece,

and all the Grecians,

were in a large sense

oft times called, de-
rived as is supposed

from an individual

called Pelasgos, a

creature of the ima-
gination

Beilas-ce,
houses,

Peloponnesos, sup-
posed to derive the
name from Pelops,
the son of Tantalos,
and Nesos, an island

the land of permanent
hich, till the arrival of
this Scythian tribe from Egypt, as
heretofore explained, had never been
seen by the Og-eag-eis, the general
voice of antiquity attests, that the
first houses erected in any part of
Greece, were built in Peloponnesus
and Cecropia; when priests from
Rome inundated Eri, they imported
the letter P, from which tiine it was
used in our language, from this word
is derived Palace, wherein kings
and bishops consume the fruits of
the earth
Beol-ob-an-inis, " an island all but the
mouth," to whatever transpositions
and elisions the Greeks had recourse
for the sake of Euphonia, they were
never carried to such an excess of
absurdity as to call Chersonesos,
Nesos, Inis is the primitive word,
on which the Greeks formed their
Nes-os, and the Romans their Inis-
ula, contracted to Ins-ula; and

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Pleuron, a town of
^^tolia, said to be
called from a son of
iEtoius

Tlirake, said to derive
its name from
Thrax, a son of
Mars

though Beol, a mouth which makes
part of this compound, was disused
by the Greeks as to the human
mouth, Ave find it preserved in Ek-
bolai, the mouths of water, which is
not derived from Ek-out and Bole
casting, but from Uisg water, cor-
lupted to Ek and beola, lips, and
is synonymous to the Roman Os,
or Ostium, the mouth

Blur-aon, " the choice one,-' this town
and Kal-u-don were built by the
tribe of the Og-eageis, who, as be-
fore mentioned, fled from the Pelas-
goi, the latter place situated amongst
hills, this the other in the Champaign,
therefore considered more choice or
excellent than Kal-ud-on

Traig-ce, " the land of strands or
shores," accurately descriptive of
this vast region, bounded on three
sides by the shore of the Euxine, the
Bosphorus, and the Ister

Till it touched lUurike, Mesia being
originally but one of its subdenomi-
nations, Thrax, the son of Mars, is
one of the children of mythology, as
a farther proof that the name of this
vast tract is connected with water, I
have to remark that the most potent
of the tribes thereof had" the specific
appellation of Odrysae, and that in
a general sense the name of Odry-
sius was given to a Thracian, which
words, OdrysaR and Odrysius, are
derived from Udor water ; English
bible translators say the country had

clxXXii DEMONSTRATION.

its name from Thiras, one of the sons
of Japheth, but these Cimmerian
traductors either forgot, or did not
know, that the land was called
Thrake, not Thrase
Sigyiiaf Seigionig, " Champions." Herodotus

says, in tlie Pth chapter of Terpsi-
core, that a tribe of the Medes called
Sigynse, extended almost to the Eneti,
in the Adriatic, and he adds, " how
this can be, I am not able to deter-
mine"
I beg leave to observe, these people were foot au.xiliaries, aa
laziges were horse auxiliaries (both Sarmatag) to the Scythians,
and this notice of Herodotus confirms me in the opinion, that
the Sarmatse were Assyrian Medes, who, though not incorpo-
rated, were confederated with the Scythians in the north of
Europe.
Pru-tanei-on Pru-tanis Bri-tethgne pronounced Bri-tinni^

"The fire hill"
Thus defined by those who To illustrate the true meaning
pretend to knowledge of of this word, it will be
the Grecian language, the necessary to state the an-
former, a " Chamber,'" or cient institution of the Scy-
Conclave," a " Common thian race, which gave rise to
hall," or " Council house." it.

*' A place at Athens where In every commune of the Scy-
those who deserved well of thian lands, there was a small
the republic were fedj^'item, mount either natural, or arti-

" A large and magnificent ficial, nigh unto which was a
house," item, a " Store permanent booth, the only
house," item, a " Fire one in the district, wherein
court." dwelt the individual, whose

The latter, " a prsefect," office it was to guard a por-
"adniinistrator,"or "keep- tion of sacred elementary
er,*" quasi " purotamis." fire, to prevent its being

From which it appears that extinguished, and also to

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clxxxiii

Pru-tanei-on was u cliani-
ber or hall, where certain
officers called Pru-tan-es
assembled, and that the
term was also applied to a
store-liouse for corn, dis-
tributed by these Pru-tan-
es, or by officers bearing
the same title

Now prithee attend to llie
radices from which " Pru-
tan-es'' is by the etymolo-
gists fancied and confidently
declared to be derived ; it
is, say they, derived from
*' Puro-tamis," a " praefect
of corn," vel, a "protos,"
" the first,"" which word
" Puro-tamis," they are
pleased to inform us, is de-
rived from " Puios," qua-
si, " Spuros,"" pronounc-
ed " Sporns," '• Corn""
and " Temno," " Seco"
to cut, from which " Pru-
tanei-ou" is also derived,
wliilst some of the order,
suppose the original word
to be " Puros-tameion,"" a
" Fire court"

To apply terms of reproba-
tion suitable to this impo-
sition on the minds of
youth, anxious for a know-
ledge of the trutb heing
impossible, 1 shall content
myself with first exposing

kindle therefrom an artificial
fire on the summit of the
adjoining mount, the signal
for the assembling the people
of the commune for the pur-
pose of transacting their
affairs, and which continued
to burn whilst the congre-
gation abided there about.
This hill was called " Bri," the
artificial fire *' Tethgne," and
the dwelling nigh thereto,
" Asti," accordingly, we learn,
that when the Pelasgoi arriv-
ed in the southern quarter
of Greece, they divided the
district of Attica, into 16*0
" Asti," afterwards reduced
to 12, over which Theseus
established superior jurisdic-
tion at Ce-cropia, the name of
v.hich he changed to " Asti,"
as much as to say the Asti,
the metropolis; in like manner
did all the nations of Greece
change places and manner of
holding public assemblies,
first from the Bri-tethgne, to
villages, and then consoli-

dated

many

nail

ties mto one principal Asti,
Avhereby a city came to have
the name of Asti, which
originally was applied to the
hut of the leros, guardian of
the sacred fire. In like man-
ner as to the Bri-tethgn6;

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the lbregoin<r farago of
absolute nonsense, suffici-
ently obvious one might
have thought, from the
various transpositions, in-
congruities, and the Vel
" Protos," and then ex-
plaining and demonstrating
the genuine signification of
these words
Pru-tanei-on composed of
Pru and tanei, the " on"
being merely a termination,
the first of which some of
the etymologists change
from puros, the invariable
signification of which is
fire, but as that does not
answer on the present oc-
casion, they have made it
a mutation from Sporos,
quasi, poros, corn, and
Tanei, say they, is from
Temno, seco, to cut, divide
or distribute ; but consci-
ous as it were of the absur-
dity of these conceits, they
abandon that conjecture,
and venture on an alias, in
the shape of Protos, first,
others of the etymologists
say this word is quasi
" Puros- tameion,"" a fire
court, Puros changed to
Pru, and tameoin to tanei-
on ; it is not a little curious
that though fire is the chief

the custom of the whole com-
munity assembling in the
open air, round the mount,
being violated ; it happened
in process of time, that indi-
viduals in the cities erecting
themselves into what they
pleased to call an aristocracy,
assumed privileges to which
they were continually making
additions, whereby the body
of the people were excluded
from the original power, the
right cceval with, and a ne-
cessary appendage of theif
being, and existing in a state
of perfect security, of manag-
ing their own concerns, or
actually and bona fide choos-
ing the persons in whom they
had confidence, to transact
their affairs subject to the will
of the majority of the society,
and the usurpers being few,
and easily accommodated in a
chamber or hall, within an
house, the ancient name of
the primitive institution, and
the institution itself shared
the same fate of being cor-
rupted. Bri became Pru,
and Tcth-gne suffered the
slight alteration to Tanei, on
being merely a termination
of the neuter gender
That these were the primitive
words of this term is obvious-

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clxxxv

ingredient in tliis compo-
sition, it is not denoted
here by *' Puros," but by
"Tanei," the term in its
present form being an al-
teration from the original,
" Bri-tethgne," as you will
find illustrated in the dia-
lect of Eri. Had Pui--os
made part of this word,
the Greeks would not have
altered it to Pru

from the Pri-tane-um of the
Romans, whereon we tind p
only substituted for b, a
practice to which they were
prone, and though " Tane,"
signifies fire, changed from
Tethgne, pronounced Tinni,
on which the Romans formed
their " Ignis," whilst the fact
of Tetligne being the original
wor 1 for fire, not elimontary,
is proved in this compound
of the Greeks. Mount Sinai
was a Bri-tethgne, mount
Palatin-us was a Bri-tethgne,
Bri-ses was the priest whose
station was in Asti, near the
mount, every page of the
chronicles of Eri proves the
ancient institution, and the
primitive term for the place
of assembly, as you will wit-
ness
1 have gone to some length to
expose the absurdities of pre-
tenders to etymology, as also
to demonstrate the value of
the unadulterated, unimprov-
ed dialect of Eri, whereby it
is yet possible to ascertain the
most ai;cient signification of
words, and to point out the
alterations that have been
made therein by the Greeks
and Romans, to form dialects
conformable to their respec-
tive tastes

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I'hermo Pulai, the
celebrated pass into
Greece, said to owe
its name to warm
baths in the neigh-
bourhood

Thettaiia said to have
the name from one
king Thessalus ! ! !
of the same cast as
kings C)gjgcs, Boeo-
tusj Emathion, Ma-
cedo,Pelops,'l hrax,
with a long catalo^-
gue of &c.

Triptolcmus the son
of Celeus, he was
chief of Eleusis a
city of the Og-eag-
eis, tlie first of that
tribe who isrecorded
to have been skilled
in the science of
Agriculture, and
the use of the
plough by Ceres,
a Scicilian woman

Tearni-ob-aile, the limit or boundary
of obstruction,

Here it was, the famous council Am-
fic-tain assembled and here was the
barrier of Greece. Had the Greeks
derived the name from warm baths,
fanciful as they were in compounding
simples, they would have called the
place Hierraa-Pulia, which would
liave been more agreeable to the
tongue and ear, though even so, they
would have been guilty of a great
absurdity, with which I would not
charge them of applying the epithet
Therma to Pulai, because of warm
baths in the neighbourhood

Teth-aille-iath, " The most beautiful
warm country."

English Etymoligists usually speak
Latin-Greek, the former being the
language they are better versed in,
here they derive Thettalia from a
man Thessalus, because the Romans
called the country Thessalia

Tir-tolaimac, '* One that perforates the
earth"

That the Pelasgoi were acquainted
with the art of i-aising corn for bread
during their sojourn in Egypt must
be presumed, nor can it be doubted
that the Sydonians had acquired the
knowledge, but it is not equally
certain that the Og-eag-eis were
versed in husbandry, they lived on
acorns, on fruits, flesh and milk of
cattle. It is probable notwithstand-

toEMONSTRATION. clxXXvil

ing the fables of Ceres, that the
chief of Eleusis might have learned
the art of ploughing and tilling the
earth, and raising corn from a female
from Sicily, an art that appeared so
wonderful to them as to be venerated
and celebrated for ages, by the
name of the Eleusinian mysteries
Chomages, the name Comalcei, heaps of earth, the descrip-
of the tomb or heaps tion of the tomb of Allyattes differs
of earth, beneath in nothing from a Tuam of a chief
whicli Aillyattes was of Eri, but in the superior magniH-
buried near Sardis cence of the former

Of the names of persons and places the definitions here given
are very different, as you pereeive from those generally re-
ceived, I have therefore to impress more deeply on your mindj
that the Noe-maid-eis, the Og-eag-eis of Greece and of Eri,
the children of Sydon and of Israel, having had one and the
same original language, become more or less diverse according
to currents of communication between these several tribes and
stranger people, climate, taste, and a great variety of other
circumstance, if the dialects of the Scythians of Greece and
of Eri, were originally represented by the same figures, to the
number of sixteen, to which in process of time, long time, an
addition of eight characters was made to the Alpha, Beta, of
the former, whilst the Ailm, Beith, of the latter, received no
increase. If you find in the vocabulary of the former radical
monosyllables confessedly subjected to mutations, compounded
in a fantastical manner, for utterance most agreeable to the
tongue, for sound most pleasing to the ear, an infinity of words
denoted by letters not of the sixteen originals, whilst the rude
nomenclature of the latter, stands nearly in its primitive cum-
brous form, moreover, if you recognize the words in their new
fashioned attire, expressive of the same ideas as their kindred
in their antique garb, methinks you will not hesitate to
acknowledge the identity, the latter bearing a nearer resemb^

clxxxviii

DEMONSTRATION.

lance to the parent of" both ; and that such is tlic truth, I re-
assert shall be proved when I come to treat of the Phoenician
language, the middle term by which we can arrive at satisfactoy
proof. These observations made, I shall now set before you
a variety of words in the dialects of Greece, Italy, and Eri, of
the same signification in all, wherefrom you will have an
opportunity of witnessing that the dialects of Greece and Eri
bear a nearer resemblance to eaeh other, than either doth to
that of Italy, allowed io be of the same family as that of
Greece.

Dialect of Greece,

Of Hall,,

Of Eri, Germnnnic.

A-bus-os, said to

Infinitae profundi.

. Aoi Baidh-seis, pron. Ai

be derived from

tatis vorago

Bai-seis, the land of heaps

A, when it gives

of waves ; the Scythians

additional power.

called the sea, "the

nnd Busos Fro-

world of waters."

fundum

Ag-ao

Stupeo

Ag-aim, I am astonished

i\ggel-os

Nuntius

Giola, a messenger or

Agkura Anchora

Agkuran Kal-an Anchorara demit-
tere.
This is not the
right expression
in Roman, the
word should be
Cel-are, wherein
you perceive the
original word,
and the varia-
tions of Greece
and Italy, thus
Ceil KafCal

servant
Anccolre, an anchor
Ancoire Ceil-an, hide or
conceal the anchor, that
is, in the water. The
expression now used is
cast anchor, of course
into the water, whereof
course it was concealed.
Here let me once for all
note, that neither we of
Eri, nor those of Italy,
ever bad the letter K,
our C Deing always pro-
nounced as K, whilst
those of Greece substi-
tuted the figure K for C

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clxxxix

Ignarius
Certamen

A g-nos

Ag-on, said to be

derived from A,

bearing what

signification is

not stated, and
Gonia an angle

or corner ! ! !
Aia, supposed to Terraia

be for Gaia

Eag-nous, deficient in in-
tellect
Agh, a conflict or struggle

Aidoi-os, suppo-
sed Aidos,h-om
A, non, et eido,
video !

Aine

Airesis

Venerandus, Pu-
dor,Pudibund-
us enim intueri
non audet

Laus, honor

Electio

Aiteo Peto, Postulo
Art-ia Culpa, Crimen
Akedes, supposed Negligens
from a, non, and

kedos, cura

Akras-ia
Alke

Intemperantia
Robur, Vires

Alios

Alius

Allo-thi

Alibi

AUo-tri-os

Alienus

Amathos

Stulte

Amnestia

Oblivi

Aoi and ai, a region or
particular independent
district

Aidide, bashful, respectful

Ain, worthy of respect and

praise
Airioch-seis, pronounced
Aurosis, the congrega-
ting of the clan for the
purpose of electing
superiors
Aithcim, I entreat
Aithis, shame, rebuke
Cedaid pron. Cedai, sloth

Craos, gluttony

Alga, brave, noble, power-
ful

Aile, another

Aile-ait, another place

Aile-tur, another land

A madan, pronounced am-
adhan, a fool

Mian-aisde, out of mind

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Am phi

Circa

Anebao

Repubesco

An-esti-os

Domo carens

Ape-this-mo3

Desuetudo

Ara

Dirae

Ares Mars

Praelium

Argos

Albus

Arden

Alte

Ai*desk-os*

Nomen fluvii

Ard-eus-is*

Irrigatio

Arkeo

Arceo

Ark-OS

Ursa ,

Arret-os

In-effabilis

Atim-a

Ignominia

A-oria

Immaturitas

Bak-tron

Bac-ul-us

Bal-lo

Ferio

Lith-ois Ball-ein Saxis incessere

Bath-roi), suppo- Gradus, subselli

sed from Baino, um

iiicedo
Bath-eos Alte

Bat-os, supposed Rubus sentis

from Bia and

Ato, quod vio-

lenter la>dat
Belos, supposed Limen domus

from Bao et

lian ; quod per

* Here we have the original Uisg

Uimb, about, pron.Umph
the b, being aspirated

No-beo, new hfe

An-asti, houseless

Aus-mos, an original cusr-
torn

Ar, Havoc, desolation

Arg, white

Ard, high

Ardi-usage, the high

water
Ard-uisge-eis, raising

streams of water
Arg-aim, I spoil or drive

off a prey
Art, a bear

E-raite, untold, a secret
E-time, without estimation
Ann air, untimely
Bachal, a staff
Bual-aim, I strike
Lith-ib Bual-ad, to pelt
stones
. Bath-as, the top, pre emU
nence

Bath-as, the top, Sec,
Bat-a, a cudgel

Beal-ac,'a much frequent-
ed path

water, nearly i)reservtd.

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limiiia saepius

eatur

Bole

Ictus Buile, a stroke

Bolg-os, (Eolian

Saccus Bolg, a sack

dialect

Bora, supposed a

Pabulum bruto- Bo-rae, abundance for cat-

Bao,seuBasko!

rum tie (that is) cows and

oxen

Boun-os, suppo-

Collis, tumulus Binn, the highest summit

sed a Baino

of a hill

Brom-os, a Bremo Fragor ")

Brom-os, suppo-

Foetidus > Breim, a breaking wind, a
3 fart

sed a Baru

Brug-mos

Stridor Brusg-aire, a noisy tur-

bulent fellow

Bema

Gressus Beim, a step

Gar

Enim Gur, for

Gerontlkos

Senilis Graintheac, grey from age,

hoary

Gno-rim-os, sup-

Notus Gno-reima, famous for

posed them Gi-

great exploits

nosko-cognoHCo

Gonis

Angulus Cuine, an angle

Deina

Quidam, vocabu- Duine, every one, any

lum infinitum one, the people

Di-thuro3

Bi-foris Dis-doras, a double door

Dromes, suppo-

Cursus Drom, the back, the ob*

sed them Treko

ject of the racers being

curro !

to shew their backs

Eimi

Eo Imthigh-im, pronounced

Imim, I go

Eite

Aut Acht, but

Ekein-os

Ille Ceana, the same; as

red ceana, the same

thing, Fear Ceana, the

same man, &c.

Me

Me Me, I and me

cxcu

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Epikouria, sup-

AuxiHum

posed theme

Epikouros ab

epi,an(l kouros,

quod juvenum

sit belligere,

theme kouros,

koreo, purgo !

Erg-on

0])us

Eros

Heros

Erutli-ros

Huber

Esuxos,supposea

Quietus

theme Edo, dcr-

lecto

Ithi

Vade

Kaj

Et

Kalon

Decenter

Cabhair, pro. Cour, help,
assistance, the true sig-
nification of the word is
an union of force

Earrr-alre, an artificer, a
workman, but not at
agriculture

Er, an hero

Ruadh, pro. Ruah, red

Socair, easy, quiet, as go
Socair, gently

Imthig, depart, begone

0-cas, and

Glan, neat, clean, decent
to Kalon, and an Glan
have precisely the same
sijinification

Kal-umma,

sup-

Velameii

Cal-uimb, a wrapper, a

posed a

Kal-

covering all round

upto, tego

Kal-upto

Tego

Cal-aim, I enclose, keep
safe, surround

Karron

Carrus

Carra, a car

Kath-eand Katli-

Sedes

Cath-aoir, a chair

edra

Kemos

Camus, froemige-

Cam, crooked

nus, so

called

because

of its

crooked

shape

Kampto

Flecto

Cam, crooked

Keros

Cera

Ceir, wax of l>ees

Kiste

Cista

Ciste, a chest

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excui

Kleia, a Kle-os

Gloria, laws

Kleio

Clueo

Kleio

Claudio

Kleithron

Claustrum

Klin-o

Inclino, reclino

Klutos

Inclytus

Kol-onos

Collis

Koluo
Krad-ao

Impedio
Quatio

Krino

Cerno

Kroteo

Pulso

Lampo
Lathra

Splendeo
Clam

Lauros

Abunde

Leo-phoros, sup-
posed from
Laos, populus
and Phero, fero

Via publica

Limne

Palus

Lithos

Lapis

Loimos

Pestis

Mer-os

Pars

Misg-o

Misceo

Clu, praise, renown

Clu-im, I praise

Cal-im, I enclose, shut up

Ceilte, hidden, concealed
Claon-aim^ I bend, in-
cline, recline

Clut-eac, praised, renown-
ed

Coll, a rising ground

Col, an impediment

Crit, a trembling

Crion-a, discerning, ju-
dicious

Crad-aim, I vex, torment

Laom, blazing fire

Lath-radh, pronounced
Lathra, a secret

Go-leor, plentifully

Luis-f bras, a way for the
people, from Lus, the
people, andforas,away,
now generally applied to
a passage over or thro'
water, by usof Eri

Lemain,Loman,the names
of three celebrated lakes
on lands occupied by
Scythians, the first in
Eri, now vulgarly called
Kilarney, second in
CaUdun-seis, now cal-
led Geneva, third in
Cala-donia, now Loman

Liath, a stone

Logh-aim, I rot, putrify

Mir, a part, or share

Measg-aim, I mix

exciv

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Methusgo

Ebrio

Meisge, drunk

Minu-os

Minus

Mion, diminutive

Mur-ios

Ingens, infinitus Mur, infinitely great, or

much

Nekros

Cadaver

Nas-cras,the body in death

Neos

Novus

No, new

Nesis

Accumulation

£is-Eis,multitude on mul-
titudes

Omal-os

Similis

Samuil, like

Omo-glos-os

Qui eadem lingua

Samuil-glor, of the same

utitur

speech

Ora

Hora

Uair, time

Or-os, supposed

Limen, terminus

Or, a coast, or border of

from Oro, video

a country

Or-os, accusative

Mons

Ar-an, coarse land, not

Or-on, suppo-

arable

sed from Oro,

excito

Our-a

Cauda

Earr, Earbal, an end, ex-
tremity, the tail

Pher-o

Fer-o

Bear-im, I carry

Phor-be

Pabulum

Fer-bo, fodder for cattle

Pipto

Cado

Titt-im, I fall, stumbling

Plat-US

Latus

Leathan, wide, broad, ex-
tensive

Por-ne

Meretrix

Por-nos, suppo-

Scortator

Foirneadh, pronounced

sed from Perao

J

For-ne, a violent pas-

vcndo

sion or inclination, that
Pome is not derived
from Perao, vendo, is
on sight confuted by
the masculine term
Pornos, which would
have to be derived
from Em-por-euomai,
Mereor, as if the fe-

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male sold, the male
bought, I marvel En-
glish etymologists, ne-
ver happened to sp}-
the syllable Por in
Em-por-euomai, an ac-
cident that miglit have
turned out to be of
great value, and the
theme of much plausi-
ble nonsense ; the sy-
nonimous terms in
Roman should have
been Forni-catrix and
Fornicator, and that
the original word is not
applicable to gratifica-
tion of passion only, is
clear from the 28th ver.
of the 5th chapter of
Matthew

" But I say unto you,
that whosoever looketh
on a woman to lust
after her, hath commit-
ted adultery with her
already in his heart."

It must be presumed that
Matthew took every
pains in the composition
of the short treatise on
morals, in which the
above sentiment is con-
tained, and that every
word was set dowp on
mature reflexion and
advisedly

CXCVl

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Poros, sup. from
Peiro, transadi-

Transitus, Ora
maritima rec-
tius Ora aqua-
ria

Prepo

Conspicuus sum,
excello

Psucho

Sicco

Ress-o
Ret-o?

Fraugo
Ratus

Ret-or, from

Orator

Reo

Dice

Sig-a

Tacite

Skap-to
Skia

Fodio
Umbra

Skolops,
Skolou,

veluti
ops.

Palus praeacutus

spinea fades.
Oh, mercv!

Foras, a passage over or
through water, the ra-
dix both of Poros,
and Peiro, and so the
Latin transadigo, and
the Ora maritima, which
I have taken the liber-
ty of correcting to its
true signification Ora
aquaria, plainly point
out

Breab-aire, a man fore-
most in gallant actions

Sioc-aim, I dry up

Bris-im, I break

Raite, said or told

Radht-aire, a speaker

Radh-im, I say

Sith, quietness, tranquil-
lity

Scab-im, I disperse, spread

Scath, pronounced Scab,
a shade, or shadow

Scolb, a sharp pointed
stake, now applied to
the very sharp pointed
stakes, or twigs that the
straw is fastened on the
roofs of the sties where-
in the children of un-
happy Eri, are now
huddled like pigs,
whilst the murderers of
heir fathers repose in
palaces, on lands where-
on the legitimate own-
ers toil and sweat for a

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Stadios

Stadium

Sten-os

Angustus

Stear

Sebum

Strouthos

Pass-er

Thelo

Vole

Thermos

Calidus

The-ros

(Estas, Messis

Timi

Honor, poena, ti-
mor

Ton-OS

Ton-US

Tu

Tu

Tum-bos,

sup-

Tumulus, Sepul-

posed a tupho,

chrum,Bustum

uro cadavera

quippeolimce-

mabatur

Upsel-os

Altus, subliniis

Chalix
Chor-euo

Cabc

Salto, et saltando
celebro

poor hire, even of which
they are defrauded

Stad, stand, rest

Staon, a contraction

Geir, suet, tallow

Strath-aire, a lewd idle
fellow, the sparrow is
proverbial for lewdness

Toil, the will

Tetli, pronounced Teh,
heat, warmth

Teth-ros, delightful heat
or warmth

Time, respectful awe

Tonna, a tune

Tu, thou or thee

Tuaim, an artificial mount
heaped over the dead ;
it is not derived from
tupho, uro, but is an
original term, in use
with tribes who did not
burn their dead, as you
will learn from the
Chronicles of Eri

Uasal, well descended,
noble ; as duine uasal
is the term by which
hath hitherto been ex-
pressed, a gentleman,
applicable now to very
few

Cailc, chalk

Cor, music, the Greek is
compounded of Cor,
music, and Eio, changed

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to Euo, for Euphonia,
that is, I dance
Chreia Necessitas, indi- Eag-Craos, now called

gentia Ocrus, want of food,

hunger
The foregoing is a Catalogue of words of divers subjects
which occurred to me, from my knowledge of the dialects of
Greece and Er-i, so evidently derived from one common ori-
gin, as not to admit of two contrary opinions, being nearly
identic, the translation of the former to the dialect of Italy,
analyzed according to the dictation of some soi-disant etymo-
logists, received by ignorant pretenders to the science, and
now so firmly established, that even the proofs here adduced
will, it is to be feared, hardly remove, or perhaps shake, so
absolute is the tyranny of spurious literature over ignorance ;
the translation of the latter to the present language of England,
the mere literal signification of each term servilely adhered to,
observations on which, I shall reserve for the concluding part
of this section, and now present to your view, for the investi-
gation of your senses, a list of words by which the Scythians
of Greece, Italy, and ol" Eri, denoted the elements, ethereal
objects, time, and seasons, land, sea, rivers, lakes, and waters ;
mankind, their attributes, members, primary necessities, pas-
sions, and relations, their poHcy, religion, and other customs ;
their reading, writing, speaking, and music, divers species of
cattle and birds, terms of war, and some of its horrors ; in the
manner of laying which before you, I shall depart from alpha-
betical order, and range the woi*ds according to the class to
which each term belongs, as the method best calculated to im-
press the whole more effectually upon your understanding.
The-os, from The-o, Deus Teth pronounced The,

pono, facio, as Heat, it is synonimous

fancied to Thummum of the

Scythians of Palestina,
accoi'ding to the deri-
vation fi'oni Thc-o, a
weaver or bricklayer,

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CXCIX

El-ios, theme,
Ele, splendor

Selas, Theme,
Ele, splendor

Sol

Lumen

Selene, Theme,
Seio, agito, and
ele, splendor

Lu-

Anatole, Theme, Oriens

&c. may with equal
propriety be called
The-os, OS is merely a
Grecian masculine ter-
mination

El-ios, the messenger of
the powerful, it is syno-
nymous with El-ohe,
the word by which the
Hebrews expressed the
incomprehensible Al-
mighty power

Sulas, light, from which it
is clear that the Gre-
cian term Elios was a
metaphorical personifi-
cation, a compound

Sul-lu-ain-e, "it is the light
of the lesser orb or ring,'"
and that this is the cor-
rect etymology of the
word, is demonstrated
by the Roman Luna,
that is Lu-ain, the
transposition of the a
and the elision of the
ri, to give the word a
feminine termination,
and for Euphonia. We
of Eri adhere to the
original word Re, Sele-
ne is a metaphorical
compound

An-no-tul-e, it is the new

* None of these words are derived from Ele, splendor, but from El, the
original term for power and majesty, from which Ele itself is to be derired.

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anatello, cxo-
rior
Orth-ros, quia Diluculuni
nos ad opera
Orthoi erigit

En to Orthro Mane

£no»

Ear

Annus

Ver

The-reia, quia CEstas
calidaejustem-
pcries

Opora, Theme AuUimnus
open and ora,
seu'ora, tempus
et cura fruc-
tuum ; it is
true ora signi-
fies time, but
why cura fruc-
truuni should
be added I can-

appearance, as shall be
more fully explained

Oir-t-ruis, the breaking
in the east, day break,
which shews, as doth
the next word, that Oir
is the primitive terra
for the east

On-oirthir and Oir-maid-
ean, in the morning, at
the breaking forth in
the east

Ainn, Bael-Ainn, the ring
or circle of Baal, the
full course of the sun
through the year

Ear the spring, Ear-ratha,
the spring season

Teth-ratha, pronounced
The-raha, the warm
quarter of the sun's
yearly circuit, from the
original word The, in
this compound, it is
manifest that The-os is
not derived from Theo,
pono, facio, &c.

Fogh-muair, harvest, lite-
rally this word means
the time of hospitality,
and is the only term
now in use, but ancient-

Meas and Cruininig,
were the words denot-
ing that season, the
first meaning fruit.

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CCl

not understand,
the etymolo-
gists might as
well have said,
tempus eden-
di, or any thing
else

particularly acorns, the
other ingathering, the
Greeks it seems called
this season by the name
of Opora, which in the
language of Eri is
Obair, work at agricul-
ture, which must be
the true signification,
an original monosylla-
ble, the more soft p
introduced in the place
of h, for Euphonia,
autumn being the most
busy season of the year;
the expression is meta-
phorical

Cheima,

theme

Hyems

Geim-ratha, Winter, li-

cheo, seu cheio.

terally it means the

quod

multus

season when the earth

fundat

pluvias

is dark and gloomy

ct nives

Nukt-os

Nox

Noct, night

Emera

Dies

Am-ratha, pronounced
Amra, the arch of time,
that is, the time from
the rising to the setting
of the sun, but the only
word of Eri now is

Lae pronounced Lau, and
that this word had been
in use amongst the
Greeks shall be pre-
sently shewn

Ge

Terra

Ce, the earth

Pur

Jgnis

Ur, the element of fire

Udor

Aqua

* Duor, the eliment of water

ceil

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Aer

Aer

Aer, the air

Aither

iEther

Eat-ear, pure air

Neplios

Nebula

Neamh, pronounced Neaf,
the heavens

Phos

Lux

Fos, light

Sphaira

Sphsera

Sbeir, the. sky

Thalassa

Mare

Tuil-eis-e, it is a multitude
of floods

Udr-iske

Situla

Uisge, running water, as
rivers, &c. not the ele-
ment of water, here you
have the primitive term
Uisge, preserved in the
compound

Lakkos

Lacus

Lac, a lake of water

Nes-os

Ins-ula

I-nis, an island

Naus

Navis

Naoi, pron. Ne, a ship

Liburn-on

Species

navigioli Libearn, a kind of vessel,
a ship with two prows,
no stern

Skaphe

Scapha

Scafa, a light boat

Ge-phura

Pons

Ceforas, a way over water,
from land to land

Tainia

Ager arenae sub Tan, a district of a coun-

aquis

latens try, from the Latin de-
finition of this term it
would appear, that the
Romaics applied it only
" to maritime countries,
and without reference to
extent, as Mauritania,
Lusitania, Aquitania,
Britannia,but it shall be
satisfactorily shewn, that
such was not the true
signification of the word,
Tan being a primitive

DEMONSTRATION.

Biote

Vita

Thnesis

Mors

Gune

Mulier

A net

Vir

Meter

Mater

Pater

Pater

Mamma

Mamma

Ginomai

Gignor

Ui-os

Filius

Pais-da .

Puer

Piirater

Prater

Gen-OS

Genus

Gal-6s

Glos

Fule

Tribus

Phratria

Tribus

Philos

Amicus

Eros

Amor

Onoma

Nomen

Anemos

Anima

Nous

Mens

Kardia

Cor

Karcnon

Caput

Philex-bos

Vena

name for a chiefry of a
district, subordinate to
a superior jurisdiction

Bith, and Biota, life

Nas, death

G-nee, a woman

Nae, a man

Mathair, mother

Athair, father,

Mama, the breast

Gein-im, I beget

Ua, a male descendant

Baisde, a boy growing

Fream-tir, pron. Freav-tir,
brother ; this word is
now vulgarly pronoun-
ced Braheer and Dra-
heer, the true word
Fream-tir, means the
roots of the land.

Gein, a genus or kind of
a species

Ga-al, a near kindred of
the same tribe.

Fuil, blood

Freamtir-iath,the brother-
hood of the land

Failac, a social companion

Eiris, a friend

A inim a name

A nam, the soul

Nous, the intellect

Croide, the heart

Ceann, pron. Caun, the
head

Fuil-bos, the case of the
blood

cciv

DEMONSTRATION.

Eidos

Facies

Dakru

Lachrymae

Ous

Auris

Rin

Nasus

Drom-os,

theme

Cursus.

,Dorsuin

Trecho,

, curro !

!j

Brachion

Brachium

Olene

Ulna

Onux

Unguis

G aster

Venter

Gonu Genu

Chthon, theme Terra
Cho, capio

Eaden, the forehead
Deor, tears
O, the ear
S-ron, the nose
Drom, the back ; here is
proof that the original
word for the back is
Drom, the word Drom-
os being appHed to a foot
race, from the competi-
tion of the racers to
shew their backs, besides
who would agree to such
a derivation of Drom-
os as Trecho, curro
Brae, the arm
Uilean, the elbow
longa, a nail of the hand

or foot
Cas-tarr, the paunch, the

inside of the belly
Glun, the knee
Thon, the arse ; it will be
thought, till explained,
that a term supposed to
be synonymous with the
Roman terra should be
set down as identic with
The, the arse, but so it
is, as would appear
clearly enough, if the
Lexicon manufacturer
had even said humi, in-
stead of terra, that they
are the same word will
be proved in the Chroni-
cles of Eri

Pous

Pes

Cheir

Manus

Dexios

Dexter

Lai-OS

Laevus

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Cos, the foot
Cior, the hands
Deas, the right hand
Lamh, pron Lauv, the
left hand
The explanation of these three terms, ought of themselves
to be considered sufficient proof of identity of origin, all the
tribes of the Scythian race directed their faces towards the
east in their worship, being the point Cebla, where Baal the
Bun first makes his appearance, consequently the south was on
the right hand, nor had they originally any other word than
Deas to represent the right and the south, though in
aftertimes the Greeks called the south Not-os, not from NeOy
Jluo, they were not so absurd, but from the original word
Not-a, discovered, the whole orb being then visible, the sun
having reached the summit of his course ; and that Deas was
the primitive term for the south as also for the right, is proved
in the word Caldees, in lot-da-cal, Ka-desh, the south country in
the land of Canaan, by Deas, corrupted to Dac-ia in the land of
the Goths, and by Deas-Mumham, that is south Munster, still
farther corrupted to Des-mond, and divers other districts in Eri;
the Greeks and Romans and another term by which they ex-
pressed the left hand, besides Laios, and Laevus, the former call-
ing it Skai-os, the wordsof the lattei', synonymous, to which are
Sinister, Scoevus, Opacus, which word Skai-os is not derived
from Shazo, Claudico, to halt, but from Skia, Umbra, because
the sun never visited the northern quarter of the heavens, the
shadow only was on that part of the earth, for which reason
it was accounted unlucky, precisely so in Eri. Lamh that is
Lauv, the left hand having the epithet Cle attached to it, the
signification of which is, unlucky, wicked ; we of Eri have
preserved another wora by which we express the north, Thuath,
pron. Thua, which though grown obsolete with the Greeks, we
find in use in the time of Herodotus, who in his account of the
Scythians, north of Caucasus, places the tribe of the Thy-
Sagiote farthest north, which word is evidently a corruption
of Thua, as the Greeks, Romans, and children of Eri ex-

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pressed themselves, as to the points of the heavens and the
hands, face, and back, so did the children of Israel, from the
particular account of which I trust you will excuse me, as you
can and ought to satisfy yourself, by investigating the scources
of antiqnity fully, and not content your mind with incidental
sketches.

Derk-o

Video

Dearc-im, I see

KIu-o

Audio

Clu-in-im, I hear

Kath-eudo

Dormio

Cot-laidh-im, I lye in a
state of restoration, I
sleep

lacho

Vocifero

Tac-im, I roar, or shout

Eid-eo

Scio

Ed-im, I have intimate
knowledge

Stadios

Stabilis

Staid-aim, I stand

Esth-eo

Edo

Ith-im, I eat

Phag-o

Comedo

Fogh-ad, to give feasts,
and live hospitably

Pin-o

Bibo

Bin, a drop of liquid

Thelo

Volo

Toil, the will

Kabe

Cibus

Caob, the inside of the
mouth

Kapt-o

Comedo avide

Caob-im, I devour

Chreia

Indigentia

Eagcraos, hunger

Trophe

Alimentum

Frogh-fiad, pronounced
Trophi, delicate food for
children after they have
lost the breast

Galax

Lac

Geal-lact, unskimmed
milk, that is white milk

Meli

Mel

Mil, honey

Brot-os

Mortalis

Breotad, to be grievously
sick

Reuma

Rheuma

Reuma, phlegm

Poine

Poena

Bian, punishment, pain

Chair-o

Gaudeo

Gair-im, I laugh, rejoice

Orge

Ira

Fearg, anger

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CCVll

Ate

Damnum

Aidos,

Pudor

Aidoi-os

Venerandus

Mis-OS

Odium

Timfe

Honor, laus

Phob-eo

Timeo

Phob-on

Timor

Trauma

Vulnus

Olethros

Pernicies

Niche

Victoria

Logch-e
Stratia

Para-taxis

Tass-o, unde
Tag-OS

Lancea
Exercitus

Instructio aciei

Ordino, Colloco
Dux

Aite, revenge

Aidide, bashful, respectful

Mios-cais, hatred

Tim^, estimation

Fubt-ad, to menace,
threaten

Uabh-an, fear

Tradh-ma, pronounced
Trauma, a lance wound

01-ar-threas, a mighty
havoc

Niadh Cath, pronounced
Nicah, the champion of
the battle, in these
terms you recognize the
primitive words Magh,
a plain, and Cath, a
battle

Laighean, a long spear

Sread-iath, the host of the
land

Ar-tag-seis, the host in
order of battle

Taoiseach, pronounced
Tausah, a chief

Here are many original
terms of war nearly in
their primitive form,
from the last of which
you see the liberties
the Greeks took with
their ancient language,
Tass-o is to range and
place in order the army,
from which they called
the dux, chief; Tag-os

ccvni

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Kol-asterion

Career

Lego

Grapho

Reo

Lego

Scribe

Dico

Lexis,
Resis,

Phasis

>

'Dictio, narratio,

* oratio

1

These are terras
used by the
Greeks for ora-
tion

Thren-eo

Lamentor

Laos
Deina

Populus
Quidam v

lum est

turn

ocabu-
infini-

Duna-mis

Potentia

Basi-leus, theme,
Basis, the base,
or foundation,
and laos, popu-
lus, people

Rex

from Taoiseach, which
one would think they
might have called Tass-
os, but there is no ac-
counting for taste

Cal-astrad-en, to shut one
up apart

Leigh-im, I read

Graf-aim, I write

Radh-aim, I say
Ag-Leig, reading

VAg-Radli, relating not

-/ from a writing

/ Fais-neis,speaking from
rumours

These are the terms used
by the children of En
for oration

Triam-im, I bewail, la-
ment

Lus, the people

Duine, any one, or every
one, the public, precise-
ly of the same significa-
tion in the three dia-
lects

Duine-mais, "the union of
the people," the origin,
and only legitimate
source of power

Bathas-luis, pronounced
Bas-luis, the head of the
people, the etymology
of this word has been
perverted, the chief, the
free choice of the peo-

DKMONSTRATION. CCIX

pie, was placed at their
head, not at the feet,
nor yet could an indi-
vidual be the basis of
the people ; that basis
is not always meant
for foundation, appears
from its other significa-
tions, and from the verb
baino, to go, whence it
is supposed to be de-
rived, I say supposed,
because it is an error to
fancy, that it is a deri-
vative, being an original
term ; what becomes of
bathron, a seat, above
the basis, and said to be
derived from the same
bamo, eo, to go ; every
Scythian epithet for the
chief is expressive of an
€xalted station, never
of such an idea that he
was the foundation of
the people, who were
the foundation of his
power and eminence, as
the words used for chief
denote Ceann, vulgarly
called Khan, the head
Ri, Rex, the director,
Dux, Princeps, &c. as
vi^ell as the next term
Anax Rex Anac-ol, the powerful

protector, the annak-
im of the Hebrews, of

€CX

DEMONSTRATION.

Turanno8

Teth-uios
Geo-dasia
J)ia-trib-o

Tyrannui

Mos

Terrarum divisio

Commoror, dego

Geneth-le, Ge-
neth-lia

Origo, Natalitia

A-genealoget-os,

Sine genere

Ar-oo

Aro

Ar-tos

Panis

Brotos

Esculentus

Astu

Civitas

Polis

Civitas

Dora-OS

Dom-

whom the translators of
tlieir works have made
giants, who were in fact
so only in power
Turnae, the chief of the
land, which shews that
Tur is an original word
for land, or a country
Tus-mos, an original cus-
tom

Ce-d''aice, the land of the
tiibe

Di-treab-eac, one that
leaves his own tribe,
and tarries from it; a
name given to one of
the kings of Eri, for
the above reason, whilst
it appears from this
term, that the word
treab, tribus, a tribe,
M'as also used in Greece

Gein-ead-lae, birth-day,
from whence it is mani-
fest that the primitive
word lae, a day, was in
use in Greece

E-gein-e'alac, without a
family, or having no
pedigree ; novus homo

Ar-im, I plow

Ar-an, bread

Bro, a hand mill, quern

Asti, a dwelling

Bal-eis, the place of the
multitude

Dom, a house v

DEMONSTRATIOX.

CCXl

•'i;eg-os

Tectum,

, domus

Teac, a hut, cabin, or

Thuris

Ostium,

fenctra

covering
Dorus, a door

Kreter
Mule *

Crater
Mola

Creitir, a cup, goblet
• Muilenn, a mill

Lin-on

Linum

Lin, linen

.»ion
Polemos

Lana

Bell-um

Eraid, wearing apparel
Buille-meas, strokes of
weapons. The bell of
the Romans shews tlie
origin of the term ac-
cording to the dialect
of Eri

Mach

Ma-Chain

Chalk(

Pugna Magh-Cath, pronounced

Ma-cah, the field of
battle

Gladius ?vlagh Cath-ar, pron.

IVIacar, the desolation
of the field of battle,
the correctness of the
definition proved by
Gladius of the Romans,
from Clades, slaughter

Arma a^rea Colg, a sword. The swords

and other weapons of
the tribes of Iber and
of Greece were origi-
nally made of brass
from the mines of Col-
chis; therefore we of
Eri call a sword Colg,
whilst the Greeks call-
ed all weapons Chalk-
os, and gave the name
of Machaira to the
sword, a term descrip-

CCXll

DEMONSTRATION.

Pelle
Thure-os

ler-os

Scutum
Scutum
Saccr

Threskia
. Ethelo threskia

Jejunium
Voluntariajejunia

Terma

Terminus

Chcrmas

Lapis, qui manum
implere potest

Cherma

tive of its destructive
use
Beilt, a buckler
Tarrad, to protect
Iris, the law of revelation,

called religion
Trosga, a fasting
Toil Trosga, a voluntary

fasting
Tearm-ann, a limit, land-
mark, in after times
made the god 'J erminus
_ Cam, signifies a heap ot
/ small stones. It was a
Acervus, parvo- ^Carn that Jacob and
rum lapidum J Laban piled up and
covenanted on ; a pri-
mitive memorial antece-
dently to the knowledge
of letters. Herodotus
says, in the 92d chap-
ter of Melpomene, that
the army of Darius
erected a pile of stones
at the river Artiscus,
by each man throwing
one stone; this was a
Carn. In such vene-
ration are these Carn-
eis held in Erl at this
hour, and ever have
been, that there are
thousands of them yet
remaining on that land,
notwithstanding the in-
troduction of the mo-
dern philosophy.

DEMONSTRATION. CCXlll

Bous

Bos

Bo, a cow

Kaballes

Caballus

Caball, a pack horse

Krios

Aries

Caor, a sheep

Taur-os

Taurus

Tarb, a bull

Bou-kol-os

Bubulcus

Bo-cal-e, an herdsman, the
one who encloses and
protects the cattle

Amnos, Anine,

Agnus, Agna,

Uaghn, pronounced Uan,

ace. 6 on

male and
male lamb

fe-

a lamb

Kuon

Canes

Cuin, dogs

Chenes

Anser-i

Gena, geese

Ichthus

Piscis

lasc, a fish

Chor-os

Chor-us

Cor-eis, a concert

Chor-eno

Salto

Cor, music

Ololuge

Ululatio

Uail-oluagh, a great la-
mentation at the grave,
the origin of hallelujah
of the Hebrews.

Ara

An utrum,

igi-

• Ara, why, anon, what ; it

tur, neu]

ipe.

is a word I cannot de-

&c. &c. &c.

scribe, and is now vul-
garly pronounced Yerra

Argm-os

Argent-um

Airgiod, silver, now the
term for money in ge-
neral

Chrus-os

Aurum, moneta

Oir, Cruisg. The reason

aurea

for the Greeks calling
money of gold Chrus-os,
was from the process of
fire being necessary for
the formation of it, and
Cruisg, is the original

word of Eri, for a pot,
or crucible, you see the
primitive term Oir, pre-

CCXIV. DEMONSTKATION.

served in Aur, in the
Romans
Chake , Caco Cac, ordure

NOTES TO SECTION VI.

(a) It is said that this chief derived his name from Cedem, which is the
Hebrew for the east, answering to (before) as lexiographers say, and for
that reason, because the East was before, in front of them in worship. In
the language in Eri, Ceadam means the first time, as though lime com-
menced with the first appearance of the sun ; if Cadmus is to be called from
Cedem the east, he is the first man of the world that ever bore a name
from a circumstance so general, you will therefore decide according to
your own judgment.

• I may be asked what authority I have for asserting that /was one of
16 letters originally introduced into Greece by Cadmus, to which I reply,
because it is one of the letters brought from Phoenicia by Eolus to Gaelag,
and because as the figure f was not invented for one hundred and fifty
years after the time of Cadmus, I cannot conceive how the Greeks could
have managed wrthoiU the letter/during that interval.

SECTION VII.

From Greece let us bend our course to Italy, a country
colonized by Scythians from Greece, Crete, Lydia and Phry-
gia, as heretofore mentioned, whereon I will proceed to set
down a variety of terms not introduced in the preceding
section, which shall be collated with words of Eri, of the same
signification, observations before made as to compounds and
terminations, you will have the goodness to bear in mind,
being applicable to the dialect of the Romans also, though not
to the same extent.

I shall first set before you a catalogue of names of persons,
places and institutions, and then of such words as demonstrate
kindred of tlie people, amongst whom they were in use, so
clearly, as to leave no room for doubt or uncertainty, first,
noticing Janus, Saturn and .Eneas, the leaders of the Scy-
thians, to the land of the Um-bri.

Ja-nus lath-nons, pronounced la-nons, '* The

intellect of the country." This war-
the name by which Onotrus, the

DEMONSTRATION.

CCXV

(Enotria

Saturnus

Lat-

jEneas

Umbri

son of Lycaon, a Pelasgian, who
led the first colony of Scythians to
to the land of the Umbri, from
Peloponnesus, was called

Onotr-iath, the land of Onotrus, the
name given to the part of the lands
of the Umbri, occupied by the co-
lony of the Pelasgoi

Saoi-tur-nae, the learned chief, he
emigrated from Crete, and first in-
troduced letters into the country of
the Umbrij' he was the leader of the
second Scythian colony into that
land

Lat-uaim, the secret cave. This was
the place where Saturn concealed
himself, on his ariival on the lands
of the Umbri from Crete

Aon-gaos, the prudent and discreet
one, he led the third colony from
Troy, to the land of the Umbri

Uambi'i, ** A cave in a mount," a name
given by the Scythian Pelasgoi to
the aborigines of Italy, who lived
in caves of the earth, till instructed
by Onotrus, to erect huts ; this is
not quite the definition of the name
according to Pliny, which I shall
give you as a sample of Roman
etymology, to shew how completely
ignorant they had become of the
ancient language

•* Umbrorum gens antiquissima Italiai
existimatur, ut quos Ombrios a
Graecis dictos putent, quod inun-
datione terrarum imbribus super-
fuissent." What think you of that

CC'XVI DE.MONSTR\T[ON.

derivation from Fliny, the greatest
reader of his day ? but tho' laugh-
able, it proves remoteness of origin !

Itallia lat-aille, the most beautiful country,

the latter name of the land of the
Umbri, the aborigines of that part
of Europe

Alba et Alpes Ailb, a country of high lands, as

Ailb-bin, cfn the Caspian sea, ancJ
the Ailb, in Italy, the former
changed to Alban-ia, the latter to
Alps, by the Romans, and Ailb-bin
in Britain

Aven-tin u. Amhan Tethgne, pron. Avan-tinne,

" The fire hill of the river," that ir
hear unto the river. This place hath
been supposed by some, to owe its
name to an Alban king, Aventinus,
a most convenient source for igno-
rance, others, ab avibus, from birds
that used to fly thither from the
Tiber. But it had another name,
Re-mon-ius, which signifies the
mount of the moon, such as Rim-
mon in Palestina, and elsewhere
through the land of Canaan, where
fire sacred to Re, the moon was
lighted and venerated, and this
mount for that reason was always
held sacred. Re-moin in the dialect
of Eri, signifies the hill of the moon ;
it was called Aven-tinus, to distin-
guish it from Pal-a-tin-us
Calerva 8000 men Cath-arbhar, pronounced Catarvar,
warriors the host for battle, this body of

warriors consisted of 600 in Eri
Mons Cal-iui" Moih Ceilte, the concealed hill ; it

Demonstration. ccxvii

had another name, Querculanus,
from the gi-eat quantity of oaks
which grew there, which occasioned
the name of Ceil-ius, concealed, the
same cause of the name of Ceilte,
corrupted to Cchje, heing given to
the aboriginal Europeans

Cen-sus Cc an-seis, the heads of the multitudes

from the practice of taking the
number of the people

Cin-cin-a-tu5 Cean-cean-iat-eis, " The head over the

head of the people." This was thefirst
title given to the supreme officer,
afterwards called dictator. The
name of the first person invested
with this power was Titus Largius
Flavius ; the nature of the institu-
tion, which set the individual over
the consuls, and clothed him
in absolute authority, is well des-
cribed by the epithet

Curet es Coraid-aos, " A fellowship of champi-

ons," as shall be explained when I
ccme to speak of Phoenicia. It was
three companions of this order, not
brothers by birth, but connected by
a brotherhood of fellowship, who
fought with the Horatii

Eq-ues Eac-aos, " A fellowship of horsemen,""

the Eques-trian order

Ex-er-cl-tu ■ Eis-air Cat-uis, " The gathering toge-

ther the multitudes for battle"

Jani-cul-um la-nois-cal-uim, the cave in which

la-nous is enclosed ; Janiculum was
the place where lanus was interred

Pal-a-tin-us Bala-tethgne-eis, pron. Ealta-tin-eis,

the high place of the fire of the

CCXVUl DEMONSTRATION.

multitude. " This mount," says Ken-
nett, " has ever had the preference,
whether so called from the people
Palantes, or from the bleating and
strolling of cattle ; in Latin, balare
and palare, or from Pales, the pas-
toral goddess, or from the burying
place of Pallas, we find disputed,
and undetermined amongst their
authors. It was in this place Ro-
mulus laid the foundation of the
city, and here he, and Tullus Hos-
tilius kept their courts, as did after-
wards Augustus, and all the suc-
ceeding emperors." So far Kennett,
but he omitted a very material point.
On this mount it was, that Romu-
lus, the elected chief, and the
elders, and the people of this small
Scythian community, entered into
a covenant founded on their ancient
institutions, by which they rose to
an eminence of power unattained by
any other nation, maintained so
long as they adhered to the spirit
and substance of the compact, from
which they were tumbled headlong ?
when the spirit evaporated, the sub-
stance became corrupted, and
nought but forms remained, inj-
prcgnated with the most destructive
poisonous product of putridity, che-
rished by the few false traitors who
came by imperceptible degrees to
usurp authority ; by them, and their
patricide instruments, administered
with unsparing hand to all, and

i)KMONSTKATION. C'CXIX

every one, wlio strove to reform the
commonwealth. Here it w&s, that
the rude laws of this Scythian tribe
were promulgated, the sacred em-
blem of fire blazing on the summit
of the mount, precisely as Moses,
the elected chief of the children of
Israel, delivered the laws and the
judgments on Mount Sinai, *' all in
a smoke, for the Lord had descend-
ed on it in fire," to the elders and
the people, which all entered into
the covenant to observe. This was
the same as the Bri-tethgne, the
fire hill, of the Greeks, as hereto-
fore explained ; this was the same
as the Bri-teigne of the Gaal of
Sciot of Ib-er, never abandoned till
the sophistication of the intellect, by
means of miracles and mysteries,
and a contemptible species of sliim-
ble-sharable logic, which would dis-
grace the understanding of a school
boy, yet made auxiliary to doctrines,
to this hour inculcated with unaf-
fected seriousness, or a gravity so
weU assumed, as to deceive, and be
received with a servility that shud-
ders at investigation, least freedom
to th6 mind should ensue. Vaunt
not, O man ! be not puffed up ! are
•jome of you wiser than any of the
brute kind ? many more of you
there are, greatly inferior in intel-
lect to the wisest of those animals
you pronounce irrational. Be as-
sured this Mount oweth not its

:'CXX DEMONSTRATION.

})anie to the people Palantes, nor
tlie bleeting and strolling of cattle,
Balare, or Pal are, nor yet to the
Goddess Pales, nor even Pallas;
but, as I have said, because it was
the chief place of the sacred fire, at
which the Duine, Demoi, tribus of
that land assembled, to transact
their own affairs. And here, once
for all, permit me to remark, that
wherever you find etymologists,
giving two or more definitions, as
those of the modern Romans for
this ancient place, and innumerable
others, you may conclude they had
recourse to conjecture, and were
ignorant of the true signification of
the term they attempted to explain
Pb-mor-ium Bo-mur-uim. It is not always possible

to give the translation of words thus
confounded ; these three original
terms signify a cow or ox, a wall
and ground, the correct explanation
of which is best shewn by the ob_
ject the word was to represent. The
Pomoerium of Rome was the origi-
nal wall of the city, the foundation
of which was laid in a trench made
by a plough with a brazen share
drawn by a cow and a bull yoked
together. This word is said to be
derived from pone maenia ; had they
said even pone murum, it would
be something near the mark ; but
why make Pone of Po, I cannot
conceive ; but when you consider
that the Romans were prone to sub-

DEMONSTRATION. CCXXl

stilutc p for b, and as Bo or Bos is
tlie original word for a cow, and as
this animal is the chief agent in the
ceremony, I leave you to decide be-
tween the two. Pone-maenia, or
Bo-mur-uim, as the etymology of
the term

Qucestor Cios-taire, the man who collects tribute,

taxes, or rents

Re-mon-ius Re-moin, "the mount of the moon," the

Rimmon of Canaan, this hill being
always reputed Holy, was never
enclosed, saith Gellius, within the
city, till the time of Claudius ; the
moon was held in peculiar veneration
by the Scythian nations

Sen-ator-es Sean-athair-aos, " a fellowship of old

fathers,'" critically descriptive of the
order, which, though a term com-
pounded by the Romans, was an
institution of the Scythian race

Ti-ber-us Tiobar-eis, a multitude of springs

Trib-un-us Treab-bin, the head of the tribe, us, is

a mere masculine termination

Sug-grun-dar-iimi Sug-grin-deor-uaim, " the grave on

which the tear was shed for the
perished suckHng." This was the
name of the place set apart at Rome
for the burial of infants, who died
before the breeding of teeth, that
is suckling, and^such is precisely
the meaning of this term so com-
pounded in the language, or rather
dialect of Eri
Vesta Asti, "the dwelling of the guardian of

the sacred fire," converted to the

CCXXll

DEMONTSTUATION.

goddess of fire by the name of Vesta,
Estia of Greece, Tabite of the Goths
These few terms of the most remarkable persons, places, and
customs, that occurred to me, being explained, I shall now-
present you with a catalogue of words in the dialects of Italy
and Eri, from which you will draw such conclusion as you think
just, and have but to request you will do your utmost
to eradicate from your mind, any prejudice it may *have formed.

Acer

Acar, sharp, sour

Accumulatio

Comail, a heap,

Ali-ubi

Aile-ib, another place

Al-o

Ail-im, I feed or nourish

Amnis

Aman, a- river

Anus

Ainn, a ring, circle

An?

An ? is it ? is he ? &c.

Aqua
I sea Osca

}

Uisge, water

Ascius

E-scath, unshaded, without a shadow

Asell-us

Asal, an ass

Bacul-um

Bacol, a staff

Balb-us

Balb, a stammerer in speech

Bard-us

Bard, a bard

Bu-bile, Bo-vile

Bo-bal, a place for cattle, a cow-house.

Here is an instance of an alteration

of the very radix, from Bo to Bu, in

these two terms, such is taste

Cad-o

Cad-aim, a fall

Calath-us

Cleath, a basket

Cal-eo

Gail, a hot vapour, exhalation

Caligo occui

lorum

Cail-gin, a distemper that closes up
the eyes

Calx

Calc, chalk

Can-di-dus

Cain, chaste, pure

Cantic-um

Caintic, a song

Caper

Gaber, a goat

Car-us

Cara, dear, beloved

Celatus

Ceilte, concealed, the origin of theCelta?

DEMONSTRATION.

ccxxiii

Cert-u?)

Cei'v-us

Coetus

Column-a

Cura

Chroma

CIam~or

Clav-us

Diu

jEgrotus

Equiis

Ms, zeris

Fall-o

Fi

Fin-is

Fode.)

Fornl-catio

Fil-ius
Flam ma
Frasn-Lim
GiacU-um

Glor-ia

Gnat-US

Hab-eo

Homo

Ib-i

Ccart,just, right

Serb-o, a stag

Ce-seis, the congregation of th e lancj

Colam-uin, a post or pillar

Curam, a care or charge

Cormas, sweet music

Glaim, a loud noise

Clo, a nail, a print, or mark

Diu, a long while

Brotad, very sick

Eac, a horse for riding

Iras, brass

Fill-im, I deceive or I am treacherous

Bi, be tliou

Fuin, an end or conclusion

Feod, a sod of the earth with the her^
bage, from whence the feodal system

Foirneadh, pron. Forneah, a violent
inclination or excitement of the
passions

Fuil-ua, a son of one"'s blood

Laom, a blazing fire

Srian, a restraint or curb

Claideam, a sword, the Roman word
is derived from Clades, slaughter

Glor, a loud expression of praise

Gneat, born

Gab-aim, I have

Mogh, a man

lb, there, that place, the place

Tethgne, fire, not the' element, but the
emblem thereof, and derived there-
from, speaking critically, it sig-
nifies the fire not lighted from the
beams of the sun, though it came
to denote any fire however kindled

CCXXIV

DEMONSTRATION.

Im-ber

Im-bifjr, the water mi high, rain

Inten-tio

In-tinn, the intention

In-ter

Idir, between

Lana

Olain, wool

Lar-es

Lar, the floor, the ground pressed and

made level, as a dancing floor, a

ball court, a threshing floor ; when

applied to an house it means the

fire-place, which was in the middle

of the chamber, Lar having that sig-

nification. The Lares, or household

gods of the Romans, near the hearth

Latro

. Latar, clandestine

Lecticiilft

Leabta-cuil, a couch for a bed

Liber

Leabar, a book

Macto

Mugh-aim, I kill

Mare

Moir, the sea

Medi-us

Midhe, the middle of any thing

Mess-is

Meas, harvest, literally acorns

Mens

Mian, the mind

Meretrix

R,eis-mear-gradh, a blameable fond-

ness for many, or an over fond error

with many

Modus

Modh, a mode, or manner

Morbus

Morb, death

Mos

Mos, a custom

Ne

Ni, not

Ne-mo

Ni-mogh, no man

Nid-us

Nead, a nest

Ob-do

Ob-im, I hinder, prevent, or obstruct

Ob-ex

Ob, an impediment

Op-US

Ob-ar, labor

Or-iens

Oir, the east

Pass-er, a sparrow

fiaois, lust, the sparrow is remarkable

for lechery

Palla

Falainn, a mantle

DEMONSTRATION.

CCXXV

Pluina

Pry-taneum, a council

house, or common

haU

Qui

Qua
Quare
Qusestio
Quam-diu
Quando
Quid
Rad-ius
Rectum
Rem-us

Reor, I suppose, ima-
gine
Res
Rex
Ros-a
Ru-fus
Sagitta

Clum, a feather

Britetgne, pronounced Britini, the
fire hill, on which a community, or
tribe, assembled for the public af-
fairs, altered in after times, (when
edifices came to be erected) to a
common hall, the original term
changed with the change in the in-
stitution, from every individual of
the society been entitled to give his
opinion on his own, and the general
concerns, a few individuals came to
infringe the original right of the
society, and to usurp the power of
making privileges for themselves,
who have never failed to consider
their own private interest in prefer-
ence to those of the commonwealth,
to their exclusive aggrandizement,
and the ruin of the people at large

Ci, who

Ca, pronounced Cau, where

Cia-red, wherefore

Ceasd, a question

Cad-am-diu, how long

Can, when

Ciod, what

Raighe, a ray of light

Reacht, a law, direction, a right

Ram-ha, an oar

Reir, discretion

Red, a thing
Ri, a king, a director
Ros, arose
Ru-ad, red colour
Saighiot, Sciot, an arrow
P

CCXXVl li

EMONSTRATION

Sal

Sail], salt

Suav-is

Saimh, pronounced Save, sweet

Sat

Sasat, sufficient, enough

Sedeo

Suid-im, I sit

Sedo

Sith-im, I calm, or appease

Se

Se, him, he

Sen-ex

Sean, an old nmn, or old

Similis

Samhail, like

Sedes

Saide, a seat

Secur-U3

Socair, tranquil

Sicc-o, I dry up

Sioc, a hoar frost

Siccus

Sic, dry-

Son-US

Son, sound

Sol

Sul, the sun

Sus

Suas, upward

Sug-o

Sugh-aim, I suck

Scrib-o

Scriob-aim, I write

Scop-a

Scuib, a broom

Salt-o, I dance, or leap

Suit, mirth

Stannum

Stan, tin

Scut-um

Sciath, a shiela

TeUu»

Talarm, pron. Thauluv, the earth.

that is, the productive part of the

earth

Terra

Tur, the element, earth

Totus

Toit, the whole

Tribus

Treab, a tribe

Vetus

Eata, old

Vin-um

Fion, wine

Vir

Fear, a man

Vocalis

Focal, a word

Ur-o, I burn

Ur, the element of fire

SECTION VIII.

Having made a comparison of the dialects of the Scythian
language in the northern and central migrations of that race,
with the dialect of Eri, let us now measure back our steps to

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Pboenicia, of the language of which country I have given vou
divers specimens, in all the regions we have traversed, which
I have undertaken to prove identic with the speech of Canta-
bria and Ew, a pledge about to be redeemed on its native soil.
This celebrated countr}' was one of many districts of the
land of Canaan, a name first to be explained. According to
the traditions of the Hebrews, the land owed its name to an
individual, the son of Ham, the son of Noah,, a practice I
have had frequent occasion to notice, and have as frequently
condemned, between which signification and mine you can now
decide.

Canaan Aoi-Ceanaen, " the land of merchants." This

country, which extended from the Euphrates
east, to the salt sea west, from Syria of Da-
mascus north, to the land of the Arabs south,
was so celebrated for its commerce in the
very earliest times we have mention of, that
I have no occasion to make farther comment
on the propriety of this name for this coun-
try, of which one of the nations was
Phoinike of Feinece, " the land of husbandmen." You have
the Greeks been instructed to believe that the Greek
Phoenicia of the name for this country is derived either from
Romans Phoinix, a palm-tree, from the quantity of

them with which it abounded, or from Phoi-
nix, the colour red, the latter derivation
maintained even by Newton, on the authority
of Herodotus and Strabo, and after the fol-
lowing manner : " When David, chief of the
children of Israel, invaded the land of the
Edomites, numbers from the neighbourhood
of the Red Sea fled, and settled themselves in
Phoenicia, that is in all the sea coasts of Sy-
ria from Egypt to Zidon, and by calling
themselves Phoenicians in the language of
Syria instead of Erythreans, gave the name
of Phoenicia to all that coast, and to that

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only, Edom, Erythra, and Phccnicia, being
names of the same signification, the words
denoting red colour.'^
From which you perceive there is a difference
of opinion, one supposing that the coun-
try had its name from palm-trees, the
other conjecturing it derived tlie name
from the colour red, both resting on the
fancy that Phoinix is the Greek for both.
In a subject of astronomy, I would not ven-
ture to dissent from that Leviathan of the
air ; but on the present occasion I must take
tliat liberty, by shewing that both conjectures
are erroneous, that this famous country did
not derive its name from either of these
causes ; that it was distinguished by the ap-
pellation 500 years before the age of David,
consequently before the flight of the children
of Edom to Azoth in Filest-ia, and 1200
years before the name of Suria M'as given to
all the land of Canaan, w^hich was not till the
time of the Macedonian Scythian Alexander,
to distinguish it from the west, by its eastern
position, with respect of Macedon, the word
Suria signifying, " an eastern country."
Though the reason assigned by Newton for the
name of Phcenicia, is too whimsical to admit
of refutation by argument, yet respect for the
memory of this benefactor of mankind, in-
duces me to attend to his words, at the same
time to offer an apology for them, which may
be found in the fact, that the work ^vherein
they are set down is PosthumuK, and there-
fore was deprived of the final correction of the
illustrious author. But let us examine these
contrary fancies respecting the name of this
country, and first of Phoinix, "which is Greek

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for a palm tree, and palm trees abounded on
this land." This may be areason for the Greeks
calling the district Phoini-ke, but it is not
Greek words I am explaining, and Phoinix,
nor any thing like thereto, is Phoenician for a
palm tree. Ailm being their term for that
tree on which the Roman Scythians formed
their Palm-a, and, in my judgment, the
Greeks would rather have called the tree
from the country, than the country from the
tree, even if the land did abound extraordina-
rily therewith, and that this was the case will
presently appear.
But it seems there is another reason for the name,
" the country was called Phoenicia from the
vernacular word Phrpnicia, which means red ;
mark the circumstances under v^^hich, and the
time when, this name is said to have been im-
posed ; Edom is Arabic for red, Eruthra is
Greek, and Phoenicia is asserted to be Phoe-
nician for red also, and when the children of
Edom fled from David, about 1050 years be-
fore Christ, to this part of the land of Canaan,
the country, say they, was called Phoenicia
for the first time, synonimous with Edom, in
compliment to these fugitives. Had this part
of the land of Canaan been in a state rude
ind uncivilized, over the people of which the
superior knowledge or address of these ex-
pelled Edomites would be calculated to give
them the ascendant ; then indeed there would
be nothing extraordinary in their imposing a
name on the country whither they had emi-
grated, but on these considerations it is to be
observed that the very reverse was the fact, for
the Plioenicians were at that period much farther
advanced than the Edomites, or any other peo-

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pie wc know of, in the social course, and were
it mainly relevant to our present enquiry, I
could (leinonstrale that these Edomites did not
proceed f'ai ther north on the coast of the land
of Canaan than Azoth in Filistlath, that no-
thing fartlier west than Syria of Damascus,
'.vas called Syria, till in times comparatively
modern to those of which I am speaking, a
name imposed on that district by the Phoeni-
cians, from its eastern position with respect
to Phoenicia, precisely as the land of Canaan,
together with the neighbour countries, had
the general name of Suria and Syria in after
times, from their situation relatively to their
western conquerors; these truths I could de-
monstrate, as also that Neic'toii hath delivered
himself in a style too sweeping, which history
cannot endure, in ascribing so much import-
ance to these fugitive Edomites, in which he
is in error as well as Herodotus and Strabo, if
the chronicles of the Hebrews, the writing of
Isaiah, and the chronicles of Gaelag, are of
avail, the writers of which had much better
opportunities of being acquainted with this
country than Newton and his Grecian authori-
ties, but this is not my object at present, but
to expose the absurdity of the fancied etymo-
logy of the name of this country. Let me
ask, if the Edomites had imposed the name,
would it not have been in their own, not the
Phoenician language, would not they have
called the land Edom P If to this be replied,
they did not name the country, it was named by
the natives, Phoenicia, a word of their tongue
synonimous with Edom, in consequence of
the event of some E.domites flying thither.
Well, and for what reason, did the Greeks

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call the country Phoini-ke ? because Phoinix
in the Greek language signifies red also, syno-
niraous with Edom and Phoenicia. Hold my
friend, learned in Lexicons and traditionary
etymology, whilst I assert that there is no
such word, (nor any thing bearing the slightest
resemblance thereto,) as Phoenicia to signify
the colour red, in the Phoenician language,
the only words therein for the colour red being
Ruath and Dearg, which last is in a meta-
phorical sense, derived from Drag, ardent
fire ; . and again, that the only words in the
Greek language for red, are Eruthros, and
Pur-ros, the last in a metaphorical sense also,
and derived from their Pur, fire ; and here
you have another proof of the identity of the
Phoenician and Greek language, the E-ruth-
ros of the latter being formed on the more
primitive Ruath of the former, as their Pur
IS framed on the original Ur, traced from Ur
of the Chaldees even unto Eri, accordingly by
what name synonimous with Edom, which sig-
nifies Red in the Arab tongue, did the Greeks
call the land of Edom; was it not Eruth-eia,
the red country ? and by what name did they
call Yam Suph ? because also called Yam
Edon, did they not call it Eruth-ra Thalassa,
the red sea ? But by what name did the
Phoenicans themselves call the land of Edom ?
did they not call it I-Ruat, the red land ? yet
strange to tell, you have been instructed to
believe that the Phoenicians called this coun-
try, not I-Ruat, which is synonimous with
Edom, the supposed cause of the name, but
Phoenicia, fancied to be synonimous with red ;
and again that the Greeks did not call this
country Eruth-eia, the name by which they

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called Edom, but Phoinike, Phoinix being
their term for red, though ihey did call every
other country of a like description, in all parts
of the earth Eruthria or Erutheia ; but what
marks still more, if possible, the ignorance of
Newton on this subject, is the expression,
*' and by calling themselves Phoenicians in the
language of Syria, instead of Erythreans,
gave the name of Phoenicia to all that sea-
coast, and to that only ;" from which passage,
on the authority of Strabo, we are given to
understand, that it was by the Edomites this
country was called by the Phcenician name of
Phoenicia, mark, " instead of Erutheia." In
the name of wonder, or in the name of the
ordinary reason of man, why should the
Edomites have called themselves Eruthreans ?
was it because the Greeks called the children
of Edom by that name ? what did the Edo-
mites know of Erutheia ? what did the Greeks
themselves, at the era of which I now speak,
know of the land of Edom ? Strabo did not
live for 1100 years after this time ; he spoke
and wrote Greek, therefore he fancied all the
world was acquainted with his language, and
stupid moderns think that the very act of a
Grecian writing Greek, and a Roman writing
Latin, constitutes wisdom, and gives a right
to authority.
Methinks I hear a man of dictionary know,
ledge of the Greek tongue exclaim, Pardon me
sir, Phoenix doth signify Red in the Greek
language, pray look on the Lexicon, to which
I beg leave to reply, it doth not ; It signi-
fies purple, expressive of a colour with which
cloth was dyed at Tyre, obtained by the
Greeks from that celebrated city of Phaenicia,

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their Phoinike, wherefrom they called purple.
Phoenix, precisely as they called Tin, Kassi-
teros, from the place where the Phoenicians
told them they found that metal, and for the
same reason that they called the purple colour
Phoenix, because it came from the country
they called Phoini-ke, did they also call a
palm tree Phoinix, because that country a-
bounded with that useful tree ?

The true name of this famous land I recognize
only in Feine-ce, the land of husbandmen,
from which the Greeks shaped their Phoini-
ke, the Romans their Phcenic-ia, according to
their respective tastes, without regard to the
original signification of the vernacular ^word,
which is obvious on a superficial review, all
the names being nearly the same ; the Greeks
having, after their invention of their Ph, made
a practice of substituting that letter for the
primitive F, whilst their Ge or Ke, is identic
with the Phoenician Ce, a land or region, and
synonimous with the Romania, their propensity
to introduce the letter O before the I, for
Euphronia, being observable even to those
who are unacquainted with the language, Tor
the Roman word, it is to be noted, the Romans
also used Ph for F, and lais, an usual termina-
tion, meaning a country ; and now with your
leave I will place the three names before you,
Feine-ce, Phoini-ke, Phoenic-ia, with these
observations, that the two letters P H or ip,
are corruptions of the original F, there being
no such letters in the Phoenician language as
P H or o, and that you must pronounce the
C as Ke.

But besides these derivations of the name, there
is another classical one, from Phoinix the son

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of Agenor, the never failing resource and
the invariable practice of ignorance, that pre-
ferreth a manifestation of itself at all hazards ;
yet I can account for this idea also, and am
of opinion the chief of the land had the title of
Feine, by way of distinftive supremacy, as
much as to say, the husbandman. As the chief
ofEgvpt was called Pharaoh, the chief of the
five lords of Filestia, was called Ab-i-mullac,
and so forth ; my reason for holding which
opinion is, tliat the chronicles of Gaelag in-
variably call the chief of this land, Feine, of
■which the Greek Phoinix, the son of Agenor,
IS still the corruption.

Here you have, according to common place deri-
vation, three modes of accounting for the
name of this country, as various as need be»

• Etymology doth not admit of conjecture, and
wherever you find those who venture upon
the science have recourse to it may he, perhaps
or else, and such like, you may depend on my
word, they have no knowledge of what they
say, and are merely amusing the credulity of
their readers with what they conceive to he the
most plausible chimera. But I must repeat,
for what reason are we to enquire of the
Greeks for the Etymology of the name of this
country, in preference to the more primitive
dialect of the land itself, wherein 1 have shewn
it to you, as well as pointed out the tasteful
mutations of Greece and Rome }

Sydon is one of the oldest cities west of Eu-
phrates. Had the country wherein it stood
no name till the time of David .'' 0 yes,
Hamath. So then the queen of the seas, the
men of a land whose merchants were princes

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permitted the ancient name, to be changed__by
fugitives from Edom, who called it Phoenicia,
as you have heard, surprizing hospitality in
the natives, to these miserable fugitives ; the
latter give a name in the language of the for-
mer, who accept of it in compliment to their
misfortunes, I suppose, complaisance too sur-
prizing to receive credit when rationally con-
sidered ; and then that woeful expression,
" itvjiead of Erythreans" it denotes igno-
rance profound. Alas! Newton was no
more ; his unfinished work could be com-
pleted only by himself. When you consider
the very early departure of this maritime
people from the original institution of the
Scythian race of dwelling in tents, the very
remote antiquity of their chief city, and the
fact of their making long voyages 500 years
before the age of David, you must be con-
vinced they had, at a very early period, cer-
tainly antecedently to their abandoning a
roving life, and becoming stationary, acquired
the science of husbandry, which being a no-
velty, therefore extraordinary in the eyes of
the surrounding tribes, this people had the
name of Feineis, and their land of Feinece
and Feineis-iath. And here I beg leave to
state the authority of Pliny, in corroboration
of my knowledge of the language, that Phoe-
nicia M'as a term for both oats and barley,
which denotes husbandry. As it is not pcrs-
sible to adopt any of the conjectures of the
palm-tree, the colour red, or the man Phoi-
nix, and as I find the people invariably called
Feine, in the chronicles of Gaelag, and Feine
fcignifies an husbandman, I consider the name

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was applied from that circumstance. It had
also another name,

Philistia Felestiath, " the land of deceit and treachery,"

and by this name was it called by the Arabs,
by the Hebrews, and in the Chronicles of
Gaelag.
But this district had another name by which
also it was called by the children of Israel,
and in the Chronicles of Gaelag

Hamath Aoi-mag, pronounced Hamah, " the land of

plains/' of the same signification as Emathia,
in the land of the Og-eag-eis, as before men-
tioned.
Of this nation the chief city was called, accord-
ing to the Hebrews, from a man Sidon, the
first born of Canaan, that is, in plain lan-
guage, the most ancient city of the land of
Canaan.

Zidon, Sidon, Sgadan, a " fish of the herring, sprat, or pil-
Sidonia chard kind,'" the city being so called from the

great quantity of fish that frequented that
place, as Trogus Pompeius and Justin tell
us. In the language of Eii, Sgadan sig-
nifies the parti-cular genus of the fish spe-
cies above mentioned, and no other fish but
these visit shallows in multitudes ; to which is
to be added, that this place is invariably
called, in the Chronicles of Gaelag, Sgadan
Aoimag, Zidon of Hamath,
Nor was this unusual ; the city of Karpalouk
was so called by the Ellenes, from the quan-
tity not of fish, but of the particular genus
called BuUog, or Police, caught in the neigh-
bourhood ; and here let me correct the igno-
rance of 'I zetzes.

To Karpalouk d'ElIenes then polls ichthuon legei
To Karm gar polis Skuthikoa, to de Paluk ichthues.

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To which I say, Karm Is not Scythian for a
city, but Catliair, contracted to Car, Cer,
Kir, &c. &c. &c., and Paluk is not Scythian
for fishes, but iasg ; and that Bullog signifies
a particular kind of fish known by the name
of Polluck, as Trogus Pompeius erred in
supposing Sydon was Phoenician for a fish,
whereas it means only the particular kind
called herring, sprat, and pilchard.
When it is considered that the Phoenician lan-
guage is lost, save in the Samaritan and the
Iberian dialects, between which last and it,
there was an idiomatic variance, as well as
that difference which must have arisen, and
did arise, in consequence of the improvement
of the Phoenician, by reason of its mixture
with other languages, and the divers cur-
rents of communication in which the Phoeni-
cians moved, whilst the children of Iber
were always sequestered in the angle of Gael-
ag, or isolated in Eri, it is not to be expect-
ed to find many terms actually Phoenician,
save in fragments. So many of these as the
signification is perfectly ascertained, I will
lay before you, together with their explana-
tion in the language of Eri.

Baal Baal, " the sun ;" this visible object, this ma-

jectic orb, was the God of Eii, from the
earliest time, till the introduction of the new
light, of rays so transverse, and splendour
so marvellously dazzling, that mankind are
now miraculously groping their way, as
though in darkness, notwithstanding the
blaze thereof. Baal was afeo the god of the
veneration of the Phoenicians

Moloch Mole, " A constant strong fire." This is the

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Ash-toroth

Pateci

Vulcan

Cyniras
Gingris

type on earth of Baal in the heavens, thi'ough
which, according to the Hebrews, the Phoeni-
cians made their children to pass, a calumny
no douht ; for it cannot be conceived that a
commercial people, who were in the habit of
colonizing distant countries, which would take
off all the superabundant population of their
circumscribed native district, would devote
their children the riches of a mercantile, co-
Ionizing community, it could not be, tho'
Mole may, and doth denote a " Constant
strong fire."
Ess-torradh. " The guardian of the ship,"
Ashtaroth, according to the Hebrews, was a
goddess of the Sidonlans. The Phoenicians
had not any God but Baal, though they ve-
nerated Re the moon, and the stars. Ash-
taroth was rather an act of ceremony, in
beseeching the divinit}^ to protect the ship

Bathas-csse, pron. Basese, " The head of the
ship." These were small figures fixed at the
prow of the ship, to which superstition at-
tached respect ; doth not the same practice
prevail even amongst the philosophic Chris-
tians, of all nations at this day, of fancied
civilization and refinement, and are not all
sailors proverbially superstitious }

It is an historical fact that the person call Vul-
can, was of Phoenician extraction*, in that
language is his name to be defined.

Bael-cean, pronounced Valcaun, " The chief of
fire," he had also another Plioenician name
of

Ceann-iris, *' The chief of Brass." He had a son
called

Gein-gris, " Of the race of fire." Gris means

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that particular kind of fire, that flies in sparks
ft-oni heated metal struck with a hammer

Veu-us Fen, " Woman." This was the Phoenician

name of the female, called Venus, who was
a Phoenician, the sister and wife of Vulcan ;
** us" is termination.
When the bible translators admitted that Vulcan
and Venus were the Tubal-cain, and Xaamah,
the son and daughter of Lamech and Zillah,
spoken of in the 4th chapter of Genesis, they
were not aware of the necessary consequence
of the admission ; for as Vulcan did not exist
till about'lOOO years before Christ, how was
it possible that Moses could be the writer of
Genesis, who died 450 years before; and
again, how could Tubal-cain be the instructor
of every artificer in ii'on, no such metal being
known for 2000 years after the time in whicli
he is made to live, nor for many centuries
after the age of Moses ; but though none of
these circumstances could be known to Moses,
they might be known to Ezra, a conclusive
reason for attributing the writing of the
Pentateuch to him, and against Moses being
the author of that work
Another word of Phcenician origin is

Jupiter latathair, " The father of the country," on

which original word Jupiter was formed, the
common title for the chief, as it was usual in
the Eastern countries to call the people, the
children of the land ; the epithet of father of
the people applied to a king, hath taken such
fast hold, that the title is continued to be
given to the most pernicious tyrants at this
day.
There were celebrated casts of men of Phoeni-
cian origin, known by the name of Curetes,

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Corybantes, Telchines, and Idcei-dactyli, of
whom in their order, with the literal significa-
tion thereof.
Curetei Coraid-aos, " A brotherhood of champions."

Knights of this order were companions of
Cath-im-eis, the Kadmos of the Greeks, in
his emigration to Ogygeia, from whom the
country westward thereof had the name of
" The land of the Curetes ;" they are recog-
nized in Italy in the champions who fought
the Horatii, and in Eri you will find them in
the Coraid na Crob ruath, the " Knights of
the red hand," instituted in Ullad, above a
century before the Christian era
Cory-bantes Cor-bein-aos, "A brotherhood famous for music"
'J'elchines Toll-cenas, " A miner""

Idoei-dactyli I-daoi-doct-eile, " Men most learned in arts and
sciences."
Having explained these terms, natives of Phoenicia, let us
now move to the land where a colony from Tyre, Sydonians
of course, erected the famous city of

Karkedon of Cathair-taide, pronounced Carthade, " A city in

the Greeks commencement.'" This is the signification of

Carthago of this word in the language of Eri, and that

the Ro- Carthada was the Phoenician name, we are

mans distinctly informed by the following passage

from Solinus :

" Urbem istam, Elissa mulier extruxit, Dome

Phoinix, et Carthadam dixit, quod Phoenicum

ore exprimit civitatem novam.'"

" This city was founded by Ehssa, of the house

of Phoinix. and called Carthada, which in

the language of Phoenicia is expressive of the

new city." It is still more expressive than

Solinus was aware of, it signifies a city in the

act of building, which denotes that the name

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was imposed before it was dedicated, by which
it continued to be called during all the time
of its existence ; you are to observe, Solinus
hath put the word in the Roman accusative.
I now come to present you with a specimen that affords
proof incontrovertible of the identity of the Phcjenician and
Iberian language, as written at this day in Ireland, with the cir-
cumstances connected with which proof, it will be necessary to
give you some previous information.

A comic writer of Rome named Plautus, among?t others
of his works, wrote a piece, called Pcenulus, ang-Uce the Car-
thaginian, in which he introduces a scene, representing Hanno
going in quest of his two daughters, who, with their nurse,
had been stolen by pirates, and sold to one, who had con-
veyed them to Kaludon in CEtolia^ where having arrived upon
intelligence of the fact, he addressed himself to the deity of
that land, of the title of whom, though he a stranger, was ig-
norant, he knew the people of the country had many gods ;
therefore makes his supplication to the chief, w^hich Plautus
has preserved in the Phoenician language, as Shakspeare has
done in those pieces where he introduces natives of France,
whom he represents speaking in their own tongue.

You are to note, that the first line is Carthaginian, the second
line is Iberian of Eri, and the third is the servile translation
thereof into English.

I.

Nith al o nim, ua lonuth sicorathissi ma com syth
An iath al a nim, uaillonnac socruidd se me com sit.
O mighty splendor of the land, renowned, powerful ; let him
quiet me with repose.

II.

Chin lach chunyth mumys tyal raycthii barii imi schi
Cim laig cungan, muin is toil, mo iced bearad iar mo sgit.
Help of the weary captive, instruct me according to thy will,
to recover my children after my fatigue.

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III.

Liph o can etyth by mithii ad aedin binuthi',
Libh a cain atac be mitis, ad eaden beannuigte.
With thee O let a pure hope be in due season, in thy blessed
presence.

IV.

Byr nar ob sillo homal O nim ubym I syrthoho,
Bir nar ob sillad uimal a nim, ibim a srota.
Deny not a drop of the fountain to the humble, O splendor,
I drink at the streams,

V.
BythJym, mo thime nocto, thii ne lech anti dias ma chon,
Bi tu le me, mo time nocta, ni leg tu onta dis mo coine.
Be propitious, my fear being respectfully revealed, suffer not
my miserable daughters to be stained with pollution.
This address to the unknown deity of the country being
concluded, Hanno having had information that his daughters
were in the temple of Venus, hastes thither, and utters the
following sentiment on the recollection of the attributes of this
goddess.

Handone silli hanum bene, silli in mus-tine
Andon sillei anam feni, sillei san baois tetgne. (a)
Although Venus instils vigor, she also instils the fire of con-
cupiscence.

And now having met with Giddenenie the nurse of his
daughters, and reproached her, she replies,
INIeipsi en este dum, alam na cestin um
^leisi ain ; eist do me ; A lam ni ceisd tu me.
Respected judge, listen to me, do not hastily question me,
(that is) call my fidelity in question.

There is no necessity to offer any remark on the above, such
as that ; Plautus was a Roman, and must be supposed to have
introduced some letters of the characters of his own nation,
not known in Carthage, as the h and 3*, (and these are the
only Roman letters in these lines) nor whether he copied in
Phoenician or Roman figures, nor yet whether many, few, or

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Brigantia

Miranda

Celto Iberi

mlts, and head lands, were called
by the general name of

Breo-ccean, " the fire heads," as shall
be amply illustraied in treating of
Britain.

There is a river which runs into the
Cantabrian sea, and as far as its
course at this moment divides the
modern provnices of Gallicia and
Asturias, and is called

Miraun-da, " the river that divides
in two parts?" a woi-d critically de-
scriptive of what it is meant to re-
present.

South-east of the lands of Gaelag,
and south-west of Buasce, the abo-
rignes seem to have collected and
gathered themselves together into a
distinct nation, the Iberians on their
borders being called

Ceilt Ibeir, the Iberians on the con-
fines ot the Celtas, precisely as the
Scythian tribes in the neighbour-
hood of the Aboriginal Indi were
called Indo Scythae, and as those
tribes of Scythians on the borders
of the aboriginal Europeans, call-
ed Celtse, on the western bank of
the Tanais were Celto Scytha2 ; yet
in this instance respecting the Iberi,
all distinctions have been confound-
ed, insomuch that the term Celtae
has been appUed to the Iberi, in
consequence of which egregious er-
ror, the Asiatic Iberians are made
to speak in the European Celtic
tongue.

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By reason of this accumulation of the
aborigines of Eisfeine into one dis-
trict, their lands obtained the spe-
cific name of

Celto Ib-er-ia Ceilt Ib-eir-iath, " the country of the

Celtae bordering on the Iberians."
Mountainous countries are always
found to preserve for a long time
original manners and customs, as
well as to be the refuge from mva-
ders ; so here we see the aboriginal
Celtae fled for shelter to the hills
called

Al ban Ailb-binn, " the summits of a confused

heap of mountains."
In order to connect all the Scytliians
on the continent of Europe, I beg
leave to inform you, from the
Chronicles of Gaelag, that in the
year 1240 before Christ, Ceannard,
the son of Lugad, being chosen
chief of the Gaal of Sciot of Ib-cr,
to the exclusion of his elder brother
Eocaid, Eocaid conspired with
many of the Gaal against Ceannard,
whom he attempted to surprize at
Asti-er-eis, in which having failed,
he and his followers quitted Gael-
ag, and passing over Bearna,
abided on that side of the moun-
tains, where they established them-
selves between the Pyrenees, the
ocean, the Garorme, and the Rhone,
the district called by the Romans
Aquitania Eocaid-tan, " the land of Eocaid."

As this name is of more than com-
mon importance, I shall be critical

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christian era, the nations south of tlie Duoro, were tributary
to the Phoenicians, and that" the country beyond tliat river,
and an irregular Hne to the pouring forth of the Avaters of
Iber, was occupied by a tribe of Iberians immediately from
Afric, a part of whom tarried in the extreme south-west,
between the Mediterranean, the ocean, the rivers Anas and
Taio, wliilst the other division entered the Iber, and established
thcr '.elves in the district between that river and the Pyrenees,
from the Mediterranean to the ocean, calling the land Buas-ce,
all the land between the Ebro, the Duoro, and the two sides of
the ocean, being occupied by the Gael of Sciot of Ib-er ; and
called Gaelag, as on the chart.

How long previously to 1490, the country south of the
Duoro had been discovered, and colonized by the Phoenicians,
though I know not of any means of ascertaining, yet may a
judgment be formed from the fact of their influence not having
extended farther north than tlie Duoro, nor beyond the 1-ber,
in an eastern direction. x\t the same time you are not to fancy
that all the other parts of this vast Peninsula were in the
possession of the Phoenicians ; by no means ; they actually oc-
cupied but the maritime parts, from whence they extended
their influence over the natives in the interior, the population
of Phoenicia, a small territory, not admitting of her making
conquests by violence, the policy and practice being to establish
themselves on the coasts, engross the product of the land at a
trifling cost, and dispose thereof at a profit in the east ; the
chief advantage from this country, being gold and silver,
wherewith it is known to have abounded in very remote times.
The chronicles of Gaelag moreover instruct me, tiiat
Sesostris invaded this country in the summer of 1008 years
before Christ, of which and many other particulars, that shed
light on the obscurity of ancient times, they will inform you.
The many revolutions this country hath undergone, have
caused, as you must be aware, considerable alterations in the
most ancient names of mountains, rivers, and remarkable places.
I shall, therefore, first set down the names according to their
corruptions, of all the places on the lands of the Gael of Ib-er,

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and of others with which the Iberians had no communication,
wherefrom you will have farther proof, (a work of supereroga-
tion certainly) of the identity of the dialects of Phoenicia
and Eri.

It is said by Tragus Pompeius and others'; that this country
liad its name from one Hispanus, of whom no one ever heard
farther, and was called,

His-pan-ia Eis-feine-iath, the very literal signifi-

cation of which is " The land of the
tribe of husbandmen ;" but when it
is considered that it was colonized
by people called Feine-eis, the name
must have, and hath reference to
them, in whom is found the original ;
thereof, as before shewn, to deduce
it from one Hispanus, is ridiculous;
the Romans called the people of
Phoenicia, Poeni, and if you look
upon the two words, and drop the
aspirate h, which is not a letter, you
will perceive there is no difference
n the names, but what has arisen
from the injury done to the more
soft original by the harsh tongue of
the barbarous Romans; though the
entire Peninsula was called in latter
days Hispania, the ancient Eis-
feine-iath did not extend farther
north than the Duoro, nor east than
the Iber, and though the govern-
ment of Sydon strove to establish
their name throughout, the attempt
was always resisted by the Iberians,
who persisted in distinguishing their
lands by their own names of Gaelag
and Buasce.

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We are informed that when Sesostris overran Spain, the chief
of a nation of the land was called,

Geryon Caoireaon, a shepherd. The Scythi-

ans boasted of being shepherds, so
the children of Israel said to the
* king of Egypt, " Thy servants are

shepherds, we and also our fathers.*"'
We are informed that a chief of Tyre
was called
Melcartus Mullac Catardig, pron. Mulla Carti,

" The head of the citizens." This
was the Tyrian Hercules, who
founded
Carteia Cathair daigead, pronounced Cardea,

" The fortunate city," more pro-
perly the city built under lucky
auspices.
To the southward of Carteia is
Gades, now Cadiz Gaoideis. It is not easy to render

this word directly into a foreign
language, the meaning is " deceit-
ful shoals, of which the currents are
visible when the sea has ebbed."
Still more south is the famous rock of
Gibraltar Giobur-ailt-ard, " The ragged, high

fire cliff"
Calpe Cailbe, " An orifice or opening."

These are the accurate significations of these words, accord-
ing to the dialect of Eri. I will now set down the most
ancient names of places in the lands occupied by the tribes of
Scythian Iberians, Avithin the Peninsula.

It is mentioned in the chronicles, that Iberians came hither
from Afric, and landed in the south country, where a portion
of them seated themselves between the Mediterranean, the
ocean, the rivers Taio and Anas, wherein are Algarve and
Ebor, or Evor, of which, Algarve appears to be the name of
the nation.

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Algar-ve Alg-er-be, pron. Algerve, " It is Er,

the noble," of which district the
chief seat was
Eb-or or Evor Iber, the place of Er.

Situated nigh unto the river
An-as Aun-eis, " the river of rr.any streams."

The country bounded on the north by
the river
Tagus, Taio Taoi, pronounced Tai, winding

The southern extremity of this district
was called by the Romans
Cuneus Cuinne, " an angle or corner," which

it is.
Let us now steer north east along the coast of the Mediter-
ranean, to the spot where the tribe of Iberians that separated
from their brethren called the Gaal of Buasce, came to land,
from that part of the Mediterranean into which the Ebro
rushes, called

Balearicum Bealeiri-ce, " The mouth of the land

of Er," that is the entrance. Sic.
Wherein is poured the waters of
Iber-us, Ib-er-uisg, the water of the place of

Er, a grand distinction of that
nation of the Scythian race, that
dwelled in Ib-er. beneath Cauca-
sus, the land of Tubal of the He-
brews, Ibei'ia of Rome. Here in
the neighboui'hood of this river,
this tribe seated themselves, their
nation extending from the waters
of Iber to the Pyrenees, and from
the sea to the ocean, having the
general name of
Biscaia Buas-ce, " the land of cattle," the prin-

cipal districts wherein are
Cat-al-on-ia, Cat-all-aon-iath, " the land of the all-

powerful in battle"

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Ar-ag-on-ia,

Navarra,

Osca, vel Huesca,

Varduli,

Dert-osa vel Tort-osa,

lUu

rgavonenses,

Ar-ag-aon-iath, " the land of conflict

and desolation'*
Nam-arran, pronounced Nav-arran,

" the mountains of the enemy."
All which names denote that the
Aborigines did not tamely suffer
these invaders to usurp their lands,
and that the Highlandmen of the
northern Pyrenees continued long
hostile to them.
In Aragon is a city mentioned by Caesar

called
Uisge, "water, the town on the water"
At the northern extremity of this

nation is a place called
Bar-dal-e, "it is the extreme portion,"

or tribe
At the extreme south is a place called
Dort-uisge, " the violent pouring out
of the waters," descriptive of the
rapidity with which the waters of
Ib-er rush into the sea.
In this quarter on the river, Caesar
makes mention of a tribe which he
calls
Eil-earr-ce-bun-aun-seis, " the tribe at
the other extremity of the land, at
the bottom of the river," in contra-
distinction to the Bardal-e, at the
northern extremity thereof ; a name
that points out to me as distinctly,
as an essay on the subject, the seat
of this tribe, and must convince the
most incredulous man that ever
lived, that the language whereby
such an assemblage of monosylla
bles can be at this day accurately

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and literally explained, must be
identic with the language of the
people by whom the name had been
originally imposed ; so had Illurike
its name from being the other ex-
tremity of the tribe of the Ogyges.
On the east, this nation of Iberians
was bounded by the Pyrenaei,

Pyrenees, Bearna, " the gaps, or clefts," critically

true as to these mountains, through
which the passages are numerous,
and a proof that Bearna is the ori-
gmal word, the department is called
at this day Beam.
These original names of places being
explained, there remains in this
quarter but to set before you, and
illustrate the most ancient names on
the lands of the Gael of Sciot of
Iber, the more immediate object of
this disquisition, the tribe, whose
chronicles I herewith present to you,
bounded west and north by the
ocean, east by the Iber, and the
nation of feuas-ce, and on the south
by the waters whereby the tribe
entered the land, called

Duero, Duor, " the water," par excellence ;

this was the limit between Eisfeine,
and the nation of

Gallicia, Gaelag, " the possession of the Gael,'

that is the Gaal of Sciot of Iber,
who stiled themselves the Gaal, tribe,
or kindred by way of pre-eminence.
You will learn from the chronicles of
this Gaal, that the chief of the Gaal
of Iber, within Buasce, was not of

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Cantabria,

Asturia, Asturies

Asturic, Astorga,
Er-ias,

the race, by which is meant the
family of Ardfear, or Noah, the
last supreme chief of the ancient
Scythian empire, of which race were
Calma and Ro'n'ard, who con-
ducted hither the Gaal of Sciot,
therefore a deference seems to have
been paid to them by their brethren
of Buasce, who nevertheless main-
tained their national sovereignty, to
destroy, or in any wise to impair
which, though no attempt ever had
been made by the chief of Gaelag,
yet the tribe arrogating a supremacy
of pride, called their country

Ceann Ib-eir, " the head of Ib-er"

By which name the sea that washed
the shores of their land was also
called, as well as a chain of lofty
mountains, running through the
country east to west, north of which
stood the tents of the chief, and
the mount where about had used to
^ assemble the great congregation of
the children of the land, called

Asti-eer-eis, the chief dwelling of the
multitudes of Er, here was their
chief Asti, and their principal
fire mount, the great congregation
of the land

South of which was,

Asti-erce, " the land of an Asti of Er."

Eastw^ard towards the confines of
Buas-ce, was

Er-eis, " multitudes of Er."

In the south was a place spoken of in
the chronicles

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Samora

Sa-breid

Argiocd

Portugal
Min-ius, Minho

Ner-ium, vel
Art Abruni

Corrunna

Ferrol

Cape Ortegal

DEMONSTRATION.

Sam-ur, " the sun and fire." Here
Avas a consecrated fire to Baal, the
cause of the name.

Another place is mentioned, situated
in the western extremity of Ceann
Ib-er, beneath that range called

Sa-breid, " beneath the ridge"

The Chronicles speak of a place with-
in half a day's journey of Asti-eir-
eis, where Eocaid, and three of his
sons, who fell in the battle of Sa-
mur fought with Sesostris, were
buried

Argiocd, " the illustrious liero and
his children.''

Returning to the ocean, and the mouth
of the Duor, there stands thereat a
city called at this day, a name de-
noting its antiquity

I3ort-i-gael, the haven of the Gaal,

North of which is the river

Min, "gentle, smooth, placid."

In the north-west of Gaelag is the
promontory
I Eir-im, " the summit of Er'
i Ard-Ib-eir, " the height of Iber.''

Farther north is

Ce-rinn-e, " it is the cape of the land"

Still north is

Fir-ol, " famous men," or as described
in the Chronicles, " where dwelt of
old men of renown."

In the extreme north is

Ceab Ard-i-gael, " the head of the
height of the Tand of the Gaal."

All which promontories, capes, sum-

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any errors have been occasioned in intervening transcripts,
there are the passages speaking as distinctly, nay more accu-
rately than the tongue, delivering their testimony which nothing
can shake, that the people with whom the language in which
the lines are written was in use, were of the same original race,
let after circumstances have seperated them, as far asunder as
from pole to pole.

It is sufficient to say, that the people of Carthage were a
colony from Tyre; "The daughter of Zidon the inhabitants
of the isle, whom the merchants of Zidon had replenished," ac-
cording to Isaiah, and that the Tyrians were called, in the days
of Solomon, Zidonians, and consequently used the language of
Phoenicia.

That this city was founded 883 years before Christ :

That the colony of Iberians had emigrated from Gallicia to
Eri, 12S years befoi-e the building of Carthage

That neither the people of Sidon nor of Carthage ever had
the slightest communication with us of Eri, from 1006, before
Christ :

And that Plautus wrote about 200 years before the Christian
era. Now look back upon the foregoing lines ; doth not wonder fill
your whole mind, at the surprizing preservation of the Irish
language ? for which I will account ^hen we arrive at Eri,
whither I am hastening as expeditiously as I ought to sDeed.

NOTE TO SECTION VIII.

(a) Tetgne is pronounced tinni.

SECTION IX.

vromAfricI shall now move to Spain, the very ancient
history of which country being involved in great obscurity, I
feel myself under a necessity of first stating the conjectures
thereupon, and then I purpose to lay before you realities,
which, though few, may have a tendency to remove errors yet
prevalent, the correction of which will be found in the follow-
ing very brief recital of some remarkable events.

It is most commonly supposed that the Phoenicians of

CCxliv DEMONSTRATION.

Tyre, discovered and colonized this country, conjectured to be
about the time of the destruction of Troy, when it is con-
jectured, Carteia was founded by the Tyrian Hercules, called
by the Greeks, Medicritos, the first that took tin from Bri-
tain to the east, as is asserted ; which conjectures, are coupled
with the facts of Sesostris having invaded and over-run the
country, erected pillars on the African and European head
lands, on either side of the streights of Gibraltar, established
idolatry, and having captivated the chief Geryon, and made a
prey of a multitude of cattle, crossed the Pyrenees, conjectured
at about 1480 years before C^mf .'/.' and it is also fancied
that the country had its name from one Hispanus.

As there can be no more apt opportunity than the present,
to expose the absurdity of these incongruities, I beg leave to
say, it was not by the Tyrians but by the Sidonians, that this
country was discovered many centuries before Tyre was
founded, which, according to Tragus Pompeius, was *' ante an-
ntcm Trojanoe cladis,"" how long he doth not say ; that it must
have been many years is clear, from the fact of a colony having
emigrated about the era of the demolition of Troy, from Tyre
to Afric, where they built Carthage, the proof of which, you
will find in the table of chronology annexed; and if the over-
throw of Troy was in 1183, the common date of that event,
according to copyists of chronology, how is that account to be
reconciled with the fancy that Tyre was founded in the time
of David, about 1030 ? again, how are the facts of this country
being discovered and colonized by the Phoenicians at any of
these periods, a fact not to be disputed, to be brought to agree
with the supposed age of Sesostris, of 1480, before Christ, and
his discovery and conquest of this land ? for though this con-
jecture of his time, would so far corroborate my assertion,
that this country was full of people of the Scythian race, of
Phoenicia and I-ber, when he invaded it, I will not receive
the alliance of falsehood, I rely with confidence -on the ac-
curacy and truth of the chronicles of Gaelag, which instruct
me, that, when the Gael of Sciot of Iber, emigrated to this
country by the way of Sidon of Hamath, in 1490, before the

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in my observations on its applica-
tion, even though I should fall into
repetition. The Iberian name of
Eocaid is the same as the Grecian
Akaios, and means the warlike ;
Tan is the Iberian, or rather one
f of the many Iberian terms tor a
country, district, region, &c. by
no means with reference to its situa-
tion on sea shores, as appears from
the unquestionable fact that every
chiefry in Eri was called Tanais-
teas, from whence the famous law
of Eri, which respected right to
rank and possessions, was called
Tanaisacte. But, say Lexicogra-
phers, Tania means a country
situated in the neighbourhood of
waters. If that be the case, mark
the consequence ; you would have
the name of the country composed
of words, each expressive of one
and the same idea ; Aqua, water,
and Tania, " a country of the wa-
ers." Trust me the ancients,
whom the superficiality of this arti-
ficial age induces to consider savage,
thoughtless, and indiscriminating,
never committed errors so gross and
palpable; the absurdities are not
chargeable to them, but to those
moderns, who have indulged in
false conjectures on expressions ori-
ginally uttered in precise and accu-
rate language. The Roman Aqua
means water ; the Grecian and Ro-
man Tania, formed on the primi-

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tive Tan, means a region, without
reference to water, and though it
would suit my view most aptly, to
suffer the vulgar error of Tania
being descriptive of a country of
water, I must not condescend to
accept of an absurdity, to serve a
purpose. I say, Aqui is here a
Roman corruption of Eocaid, pro-
nounced Achi, which hath suffered
the trifling change to Aqui, to
which is added tan-ia, not the
watery land of waters, but the
land of Eocaid, the leader oi the
Iberian colony from Galicia, as we
are distinctly informed by the
Chronicles of Gaelag, wherein it is
said, " and Eocaid, and those who
adhered unto him, abided in that
land, calling it Eocaid-tan."
And the people of this land are of the
Gael of Sciot of Iber, who spoke
in a language distinct from the abo-
riginal European Celtae between the
Garonne and the Seine, and from
the aboriginal European Cimmerii,
called Belgas, between the Seine and
the Rhine, and who differed from
both these distinct nations, " not
in language only, but in institutions,
laws," and, let me add, religion
also. And in proof of their lan-
guage being identic with the lan-
guage of the Gael of Sciot of Iber
in Gaelag, 1 will set down the
names of waters, mountains, tribes,
a remarkable covenant, and a cele-

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eclvii

Gai'-umna, now
roniie

Gar

RtK^nus, now Rhone

C««-bennte

\'o]ca5

brated individual, of which I will
give you the mere literal significa-
tion.
I have already explained the meaning
of the Pyrenees, the northern limit
of this tribe, which divided them
from their brethren of Buasce; on
the south they %vere separated from
the aboriginal Celts, by the river
called by the Romans
Oarb-aun-e ; " It is a rough and

boisterous river.'"
On the east they were bounded by the

river called by the Romans
Ro-d-aun. It is not easy to render
some words, this is one; I cannot
-explain it better than to say, " a
river whose bed is not sufficient for
its waters," the word Ro denoting
" too much ;" as one would say,
" too much of a river."
There are in this nation a range of

very high mountains, called
Ce-binne-e ; •' it is the summit of the

land."
There are two passages from the
north, into Eocaid-tan, the more
eastern one between these moun-
tains and the Khone, the other be-
tween the mountains and the head
of the Garonne, at each of which
were tribes called
Bealce, pronounced Violce, »" the
mouth of the land," that is, the
entrance thereinto.
We learn from the 9th chapter of the

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Ad-can-tuan-us

Sol-duri-i

Lac-US Leman-us

Wal-den-seti

3rd book of the Commentaries of
Julius Caesar, wherein he treats of
his wars in this country, that Ad-
cantuanus, who commanded the
town, endeavoured to make his es-
cape with six hundred sworn friends,
whom the natives call Sol-durii,
whose custom is, to enjoy all things
in common with those to whom they
have vowed a friendship, to share
the same fortune, and kill them-
selves, rather than survive the death
of their comrades.

Adh-ceann-tuatacn-eis, pronounced
A-caun-tua-an-eis, " the appointed
head chief of the host*"

Siol-deirig, pronounced Soldheri, " a
clan of the same issue, Unked by a
secret bond."

From this nation a small colony sepa-
rated, and moving eastward, esta-
blished themselves on

Loc Lo-aman, which word I cannot
better translate, than by describing
the lake " to be formed by the
waters of a river that overspread
the land," an expansion of fresh
running water.

The tribe themselves having obtained
from their Cimmerian neighbours,
who gained the ascendant over the
CeltJE and them, in that quarter
the name of

Gaal-dun-seis, *' the tribe, or the Gaal
of the hills."

Having now completed my object in
this part of the earth, by having

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clearly demonstrated the identity of
the several dialects of the language
of the Scythian race, through the
extent of their migrations westward
from the Indus, I purpose, pre-
viously to our passing from the con-
tinent, to the isle of Britain, to
treat very briefly of the languages
of the aborigines of the countries
}n Europe colonized by these Scy-
thian invaders, as far as can be as-
certained, in a manner that enables
me to speak with confidence on the
subject, of which I will now pro-
ceed to lay the proofs before you.

SECTION X.

Pf the Language of the Cimmerii, Ci'mbri, or Germanni.

From the foregoing analysis, you have means of judging
of the dialects of Greez:e, Rome, and Eri, and whether the re-
semblance between the first and last, is not much greater than
that of Rome, allowedly a branch from stock of Greece,
is to either ; and also of satisfying your mind, that the language
(a dialect of the Cimmerian) in which I am now writing, hath
no affinity with any of them, otherwise than by the adoption of
various words of the Romans, as shall be explained when we
arrive in Britain ; but previously to our passing over to that
surprizing island, as I have heretofore pointed out the difference
between the Scythian, Arab, Assyrian, and Egyptian tongue.s, I
I purpose now to speak of the speech of the Cimmerii, Cim-bri
or Germanni, and to shew that it hath no kindred with the
language of the Scythians, the concluding and conducive evi-
dence of diversity of origin.

In the territories wherein the Germanni maintained their in-
dependent sovereignty, and therewith their ancient language,
as noted on the chart, there were two grand dialects,.the Litwa,

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and tlie Tudesque ; and as on the authority of Tacitus, it hath
heretofore been shewn, that the Basternean Peucini were not
Asiatics, by their Germannic tongue, so now by his testimony
will I also prove the total diversity between the languages of
the Scythians, and the Germans, and not only between their
tongues, but also between those of the Germanni and Celtae,
though both were aborigines of Europe, the former north, the
latter south of the Rhine and Ister.

Tacitus, in his treatise on Germany, thus delivers himself,
" whether the Araviscians are derived from the Osians, a na-
tion of Germany passing into Panonia, or the Osians from the
Araviscians, removing from Panonia into Germany, is a matter
undecided, since both still use the same language, the same
customs, and the same laws," still you may say the point of
origin remains undecided ; but Tacitus hath not left us in dark-
ness, having added, " from the language of the Panonians
spoken by the Osians, it is manifest they are not Germans,"
from whence it follows, of course, that the language of Panonia
which was Scythian, was difFeren tfrom that of the Germanni,
which was Litwa or Tudesque, and therefore proves as dis-
t'mctly as language the most unerring of criterions can
demonstrate, a diversity of origin of the Scythians, and Cim-
merii or Germanni ; so far we have evidence of this fact, on
the native land of the Germanni, to which I will add the testi-
mony of St. Jerome in Galatia, and Asia minor, (a country
whither a tribe of of Germanni had emigrated, where they were
surrounded by Scythians and Assyrians) who says, that they
preserved their language to his time, which he recognized as
identic with that of the Treviri in Germany, (which was Tu-
desque) amongst whom he had been brought up.

Here it becomes necessary to observe, that we are informed
by men of ancient days, that some straggling tribes of the
Celta^ had passed to the north of the Rhine, amongst the
Germanni, one of whom, (the (a) Gothinians) were known by
" their Gallic (b) speech," according to Tacitus, not to be
Germans.

And now let me ask, if a score or two of Scvthian words

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arc found in use aniongsit the Germanni, doth not the fact of
neighbourhood for centuries, rationally account for that circum-
stance, without referring therefrom, identity of origin, of the
two people.

Having now seen proofs of diversity on the lands of the Ger-
manni in the vicinage of Scythians, and on the lands of the
Scythians, surrounded by Scythians and Assyrians, let us
cross the Rhine to the lands of the Celtas, and examine in that
quarter the evidence of antiquity touching their language.

NOTES TO SECTION X.

(a) You are not to fancy that the Roman word Gothini hath any affini-
ty with the Scythian Gotlis ; the Romans never scrupled to make a term
bend to their tongue ; for the etymology of this word, the vocabulary of
Armorici and Wales must he consulted, wherein I dare to say some of its
features, though in a mutilated state, may be recognized.

(Z>) By Gallic is meant Celtic. '

SECTION XI.
Of the Language of the Celtcv.

As there is no term less understood dovm to the moment of
my writing, than Ceiltig, Keltkoi, Celtze, Celts, I shall first
give you a precise idea of the people so called. By this name
the Scythian Goths called the aboriginal Europeans, west-ward
of Tanais, from the circumstance of their being concealed in
woods, the only meaning of the name, but though in process
of time, as before mentioned, the epithet was discontinued in
that quarter of the earth, save in the neighbourhood of Palus
Meotis, it came to be applied to all the nations from the land
of lapydes, south of the Ister and Rhine, to the extreme west ;
but as the Scythians advanced, and discovered that the people
they invaded had tribal distinctions, they either called them
according thereto, or more commonly after their own fashion,
leaving all those of whom they were totally ignorant, whom
their arms had not yet reached, CeltBe to the fancied end of
the world.

Of all their lands we find the aboriginal Celtae in possession

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only of a small district of Spain, in the mountains of Ailb-bin,-
and of the country from Helvetia to the ocean, between the
Seine and Garronne ; the Germannic Belgae having transgressed
the Rhine, and seated themselves between that boundary and
the Seine ; and the Scythian Iberi of Gallicia, having, under the
conduct of Eocaid, the son of Lugad, surmounted the Pyrenees^
and established themselves between those mountains, the
Garronne, the Rhone, and the ocean, as before mentioned, this
remnant having acquired a positive locality by the name of
Celtica, at about half a century before the birth of Christ, at
which time the Scythians of Italy, having become masters of
an huge proportion of the world, known to them. Julius
CfEsar, envious of an inoffensive people in "the enjoyment of
their rude but buxom independence, moved westward to
frighten liberty from this portion of the earth, save the liberty
of being admitted to the high distinction of being provincials,
and slaves to the godlike Romans, and their glorious constitu-
tion, lauded to the very skies by the mercenary scribes of Italy»
(ever ready, as are their successors in the art, to prostitute the
pen and truth, to the seducing favor of power,) extolled by
those who fatten on its garbage, calling it the pnde of Romans,
the masterpiece of the science of Government, an accumulation
of the wisdom of ages, the envy and admiration of the whole
world, devotion to which was perfect freedom, this so often,
so loudly, and so confidently repeated, that the very sufferers
under its sanguined lash believed the tale, and were willing at the
pious suggestion of the priesthood, the hand sinister of despot-
ism, to attribute their misfortunes and misery to the wrath of
the Gods, offended at their manifold transgressions^ rather
than to the true cause, excessive accumulation and inordinate
privileges of wealth, consequent encrease, and exclusion of
poverty, and the total annihilation of the beauty, florid com-
plexion, and fine proportion of primitive institutions, (by ad-
herence whereto Rome rose to a degree of powder unequalled)
leaving but the emaciated, sickly, pining form of ancient daysj
her wholesome exhilarating spirit converted into a venomous

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Bting, ready to be darted at all and every one, who even ex-
pressed a desire to have the commonwealth restored to its
pristine health again.

This tyrant I say, having come to the resolution of extin-
guishing the expiring laws and liberties of his native country,
now advanced to reduce the nations westward of Italy, and
hath as some small atonement for his treasons, bequeathed to
posterity an account of his progress, of which the very first
passage is :

Gallia est omnis divisa in tres partes, quarum unam incolunt
Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam ipsorum lingua Celtee, nostri
Galli appellantur, hi omnes lingua, institutis, legibus inter se
differunt."

From which words of this man (illustrious in vice, pre-emi-
nent in seeming virtue, this man of blood who could assume the
divine virtue of clemency, if cruelty served not his purpose more
aptly.) A scholar famous, the elegant writer, it appears as
plainly as words can shew, that half a century before Christ, all
the lands remaining to the Aborigines of continental Europe,
east of the Pyrenees, known by the name of Celtae, was the
middle third of Gallia, between the Seine and Marne, and the
Garroime, nemmed in on the north by the Germannic Belgae)
on the south by the Iberian Scythians, and that the country
called by the general name of Gallia, was occupied by tribes
of these, three nations, differing each from the others, in and
all those strong and leading features, which are the surest, the
imerring criterions of variety in the genera of the human
species.

This notable passage proves that the Belgae, though indi-
ginal north of the Rhine, were not of the same origin as the
Celtip, the aborigines south thereof; whilst it establishes the
point beyond far this question, that the Germanni, of whom
the Belgae were a tribe, were not Scythae, differing as they did
from the Iberi, a tribe of Scytha;, in language, institutions and
laws ; this testimony of Julius Caesar sets sophistical argu-
mentation at defiance, it laughs not in scorn, but in pity, at
all the schemes and theories of pseudo antiquarians, ascer-

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tains for ever the origins of these nations, whilst it proves
that Xenophon is fully justified in saying that " The Scy-
thians held the chief sway in Europe," which by looking on
the chart, and taking to account the consummate ignorance of
the ancients of the northern parts of Europe, and their habit
of speaking in general terms, you perceive was not an exag-
geration.

Those things explained, it remains to give you a correct
idea of the term Gallia and Galli, the former of which was
held one and the same as Celtica, the country of the Celta; or
Galli.

If you do not know, it is fit you should, that there is a,
word in the language of the Greeks called Galos, changed by
the Romans to Glos, which by lexicographers, is now supposed
to signify a husband's sister, or a brother's wife ; that in latter
times it did not come to be applied to this particular degree of
kindred amongst Greeks and Romans, I will not affirm, nor
may I deny, but that such was not the primitive meaning I
must aver, because from the writings of the Iberi, I am war-
ranted to say, the word expressed a tribe allied by bonds of
blood or friendship, and that the Galos (a) of the Greeks, the
Glos of the Romans, is a corruption of the more primitive
word Gaal, preserved by the Iberi, from whom of Aquitania,
it passed to the other side of the Garonne, and came in pro-
cess of time to give name to the country and people from
thence to the Rhine, -confirmed by the passage cited from
Julius Ccesar :

" Ipsorum lingua Celtae nostra Galli appellantur ;"
Which words are clearly illustrative of the identity of the lan-
guage of Rome, and the Iberians; though Ccesar h^tXh commit-
ted a great error in supposing Celtse to be an European word, as
heretofore shewn. Rut Ccesar saith, these people who called
themselves Celtae, were by the Romans called Galli ; now in
the primitive Iberian dialect, Gaal hath no meaning till it be
added to some other word ; therefore a tribe which the Iberi-
ans would call Gaal Seanaun, Gaal Ed, the Romans called
Gall-i Senones, Galli ?]d-ui, and what the Iberians would call

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Gael-iath, tl:e Romans called Gallia, differing in noihing but
the terminations, from which you are to understand, that Gallia
means the country ol' certain tribes, and that Gaa! means a
tribe or kindred, what tribe or kindred is always expressed by
the addition of its denomination, a word, pussed as before said,
from the Iberi of Aquitania, to the aboritrines on the other
side of the Garonne : and now to elucidate this part of our
subject even more clearly, the misconception of which hath
caused much confusion, I beg leave to refer you to the au-
thority of Sr. Bernard, who says, " That all foreigners were in
very ancient limes called Gaal, by the people of Eri," which
having caused some to call the Irish Galli, as though they
were of Gaul, they indignantly rejilied,

'• Scoti sumus, non (jalli;""
Or, (as Bernard wrote in Latin,) lo be more explicit, "We
are the Gaal of Sciot, not the Gaal of Armorica." Gaal
they were, for so the Iberi called all tribes ; it Is our word for
a tribe, but they would not suffer themselves to be called by
another name than the Gaal of Sciot ; which I shall ha\e occa-
sion to notice again in Britain, whither I am now about to
shape my course, where we will meet with all the tribes of
whom we have been treating, save the Sarmatae.

NOTl.S TO SECTION XI.

(a) You will tiiiil in Galatia, i.\ Asia Minor, a name given by the Gietks
to a tribe of Cimmerii, who emi^^rat;? 1 thither, that the terra of Gaal was
then in use amongst the Greeks, atid- signified a tribe, as shall be remarked
on.

A^ote. It is worthy of observation, that the ancients called the aborigines
of the islands in the Archipelago, by the name of Caun-ians ; those of
Sicily, Si-Caun-i ; those of the southern extremity of Greece, Cyn-urians,
Gigantes and Hellotes, and those of Spain, Cyn-usians.

You cannot suppose these words were without meaning, applied by Srv-
thians, to aborigines in every quarter, invaded by Scythians ; now pray
mark the value of the language of Eri, held hitherto so cheap, yea, utterly
despised. Cean in our language, signifies the head, the original with all
its synonimous terms, the word Khan, as spelled by the English, the title
of a supreme chief in tht- east, is Cean, the head ; the Kon-ing of Ger-
many, borrowed from the Goths, is the Scythian Cean ; Og-eis-cean, cor-
rupted to Ogus Khan, means " Og, the head of the liost,'' and when men

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of ancient days tell me, that these European nation? had originally the
above names, they inform me as distinctly as if they had written largely
on the subject, that these were aboriginal people on all the lands invaded
by the Scythians, of whose origin they had no knowledge whatever, to
whom they applied these general names in ignorance, which could not hare
been the case if they had been preceding emigrators of their own race.

SECTION XII.

Arrived in Britain, I now come to speak of the various
nations thereof, from the earUest time, to the era of the Norman
invasion, and to demonstrate the origin of each by the test of
language ; adhering to the method I adopted at the outset, I
shall first lay before you the ideas most prevalent on the sub-
ject, and then submit my own opinion, together with the
sources from whence both are derived.

To describe as briefly as possible the divers and diverse
schemes of projectors on this head, their theories, and hypo-'
theses, would require volumes, detailed answers to which would
fill a moderate library. I must therefore content myself with
drawing the general outline of their systems, and as Camden
is yet considered by his countrymen an ancient in a manner,
an antiquary, a faithful compiler of all the relations accredited
down to his days, and cited on all occasions as authority, I
shall state his conceptions, in my reply to which will be found
the answer, not to him only, but to the whole lierd of book
manufacturers, down to this present hour.

He commences with an account of the name of the Island,
and gives us the opinion of Geoffry ap Arthur of Monmouth,
" That the name of Britain was derived from one Brutus, the
great grandson of ^neas, who fled from Troy to Italy."

Of Sir Thomas Eliot, that it was derived from a Greek
Word Prutaneia, which term amongst the Athenians, signified
their public reuenues.

Of Humphrey Lloyd, who hath the reputation of being
one of the best antiquarians in the kingdom, who with much
assurance refers its original to the British word Pridcain, that
is to say, " A white form."

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Of f^oinponiiis Laetus, wlio tells us, that the Brilons of Ar-=
inorica in France, gave it that name.

Of Goropius Becanus, who will have it, that the Danes
settled themselves here, and so called it Bridania, that is, free
Dania.

Of others who deduce it from Prutenia, (Prussia,) a part ot
Germany.

Of Bodin, who supposeth it took its name from Bretta, a.
Spanish word, which signifies earth.

Of Forcutulus, who derives it from Brithin, which, as it
appears in Alhenseus, was the name of a sort of drink among
the Grecians.

Of others who deduce it from the Brutii in Italy, whom the
Greeks called Bretious.

But those pedants are by no means to be endured^ who
would have it to be called Britain, "From the brutish manners
of the inhabitants."

For the rejection of all which opinions, save that of GeofFry,
he offers his reasons, on his inclination towards which, he deli-
vers himself in these terms :

" But now could we be but once well satisfied that this
history of Brutus were true and certain, there would be no
farther occasion for any laborious search after the original of
the British nation, that business were all at an end, and lovers
of antiquity v/ould be excused from a troublesome and tedious
enquiry ; for my own part, I am so far from labouring to dis-
credit that history, that I assut-e you, 1 have often strained
my invention to the uttermost to support it. Absolutely to
reject it, would be to make war against time, and to fight
against a received opinion ; for shall one of my mean capacity
presume to give sentence in a point of so much consequence ?
I refer the controversy entirely to the whole body of learned
antiquaries, and leaving every man freely to the liberty of his
own judgment, shall not be much concerned at any one's
opinion."

He then states the evidence of many writers, who altogether
discredit the story of Brutus, and says, " if I have any ways

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impaired file creuit of that history, concerning Brutiu^, na
man can reasonably quarrel with me; for my part, it shall
nev«r trouble me, if Brutus pass current for the father and
founder of the British nation, let the Britons descent stand
good, as they deduce it from the Trojans, I shall never con-
tradict it ; nay, I shall show you hereafter l.'ow, with truth, it
may be maintained."

Following this learned antiquary through his solution of the
name of the island, he says, " Whence conies Albion ? whence
Britain ? give me leave, as to this point, to deliver my real
thoughts, which I am satisfied are the real truth ;" then pro-
ceeds thus, " all nations have been by strangers, called by
names quite different from what they called themselves ;" many
instances of which he adduces, from wliich lie draws the conr
elusion, that " the Greeks called the island Britannia, from the
British word Brit, or Brith, whicli signifjcs painted, to which
they added Tania, which in the Greek language means I'egio,
a country; from which native and foreign terras, without all
doubt, the name of Britain is derived." In this manner he
at length positively determines the controversy, abandoning
Brutus, leaving the Trojan to his fate, notwithstanding the
assurance he gave of maintaining his pretens^ions ; having pre-
viously disposed of the other name of Albion, which in a dis-
sertation as luminous as that of Britain, he is inclined to de-
rive from Alphon, because Festus told him Alphon signified
white.

This point adjusted thus satisfactorily, the laborious anti-
quarian sets about his enquiry mto the original inhabitants of
Britannia, or Albion, and after findingfault with Julius Ccesar,
and Diodorus, for saying they were Aborigines, " as if man-
kind sprung out of the earth like mushrooms," he proceeds
with the old story of the flood, '^ Noah and the Ark, Japheth
and his son Gomcr" who in these, our most remote parts of
Europe, gave both original and name to the Gomer-ians, who
were afterwards called Cimbri and Cimmerii, for that name of
the Cimbri or Cimmerii did in process of time, almost fill
those parts of the world, and spread itself very far, not only in

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Germany, but in Gaal also, and from these Gomeri, or Gomari,
(mark the cautious precision of the accurate etymologist,) I
have always been of opinion that our Britons had both original
and name, in which 1 am confirmed by the proper and genuine
name of Britons, for the Welch to this day call themselves
Kumoro, Cymro, and Kimeri, a Welsh woman Kimcraes, and
their language Kimraeg, neither do they own any other name,
although some pretenders to learning have from thence, of late,
coined the new names of Cambri and Cambria, and from whence
now can we imagine these names should be derived, but from
the ancient Gonier, and from those Gomeri, who were so near
to us in Gaul, the seat doubtless of the old Gomerians. This
is my judgment concerning the original of the Britons, or
rather my conjecture^ for in a matter of so great antiquity, it
is easier to proceed by conjecture, than to offer at any positive
determination, and this account of our descent from Gomer
and Gaul seems much more substantial, more ancient, and
better grounded, than from Brutus and Troy ; nay, I do not
despair to prove that our Britons are really the offspring of the
Gauls, by arguments taken from the name, situation, religion,
customs, and language of both nations."

He then proceed^ to give his proofs, and informs us on the
authority of Josephus and Zonaras, that those who are now
called Gauls, were from Gomer, formerly named Gomari,
Gemerjei, and Gomeritae, and on the evidence of Wolphgangus,
a divine, saith he, " of very considerable repute," that the na-
tions and families which descended from Japheth, were the first
possessors of the European islands, such as England and
Sicily, and wraps up all his shreds and patches in the old He-
brew mantle, in which is interwoven.

" By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their
nations."

He then informs us of the conjectures of Tacitus and others,
that Britain was first peopled from Gaul, on account of its
proximity thereto ; next he assays to prove origin from the
Hrudic religion, which was found to prevail both in Armorica

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and Britain. Then instances similarity of some few customs,
which he saith were pecuUar to the two people, but relin-
quishes that evidence, " because perhaps that argument may
not appear very cogent to some sort of men," and concludes in
these words, " but we now come to language, a particular upon
which lieth the main stress of this controversy, as being the
surest evidence of the original of a nation, for there is no man
I suppose, but will readily allow, that those people who speak
the same language, must necessarily he derived from one com-
mon original," and in confirmation of the identity of the lanr
guage of the Gauls and Britons, he has selected three score
words peculiar, as he asserts, to both nations.

Having after this manner accounted for the earliest inhar
bitants of Britain, he speaks of the Picts, " who dwelled in
the northern parts of the island, whom he thinks he can shew
from manners, name, and language, were indeed very Britons
themselves," for which purpose he informs us, that Hector
Boetius derives these people from the Agathyrsi, Pomponius
Laetus, Aventinus, and others, from the Germans ; some will
have them from the Pictones in France, and Bede from the
Scythians, and then adds, " In such a variety of opinions I
do not know which to adhere to, however, to shew as well as I
can, how the truth of this matter stands, I will venture to de-r
liver my own thoughts of it, and unless the authority of
venerable Bede was a sufficient counterpoise to my conjecture,
I should be apt to think that the Picts were not transplanted
from other countries, but originally Britons, and the offspring
of them, I mean those very Britons, who before the Roman?
came here, inhabited the north part of the island."

He then instances, (to prove their origin the same as the
other inhabitants of Britain,) according to Bede and Tacitus,
&, similarity of customs, in submitting to be governed by
women, and in painting themselves; he states that the
people called Picts were always called Britons by the
Jlomans. I cannot say much (quoth he,) from language, as
the Pictish tongue is lost ; therefore he gives but half a dozen
samples, and dwells upon the appellation of Picti, which he

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will have '♦ painted,'' and though he will not wrest It to an
argument, he must notice that some of the petty kings of the
Picts were called Bridi', that is to say, in British, painted.

He next notices a tribe of Gomeri, or Galli, called Belgae,
who established themselves in the present districts of Hants,
Wilts, and Somerset, and of Attrebatii, seated in Berks.

Such the inhabitants, such their origin, which to sum up the
whole in as few words as may be, you perceive is deduced from
Gomer, the son of Japheth, the father of the Gomeri, or Go-
mari, whowere afterwards called Cimmerii, or Cimbrl, and Galli,

Our antiquary having laid down these for facts, and taken
this view of the state of the island, at the era of the first Roman
invasion by Julius Caesar, concludes in these words, *' here
then our historian, whoever he may be, should begin his his-
tory, and not higher, if he seriously consider what the most
learned V'arro hath said, namely, that there are three distinct
periods of time :

1st. " From man's creation to the deluge," which by reason,
we know nothing of it, is called Adelon, unknown :

2d. " From the Deluge to the first Olympiad," (which he
dates at 841 years before Christ,) and because we know nothing
of it but false and fabulous, is called Muthikon, fabulous :

3d. " From the first Olympiad to our own times," which is
called Istorikon, the historical, because the transactions of that
space are related by good historians.

From whence you see, this profound Saxon antiquary con-
signs eight hundred years of the history of Britain within his
historical era, to the unknown and fabulous ages, without the
least scruple ; making a demonstration tl.ereby of modesty,
candour, and sincere respect for historic fidelity, but in reality
actuated by a far different motive, as shall presently be re-
marked upon.

Though few words would be requisite to expose the ignorance
of this man of reading and writing, still more if possible than
he hath himself manifested it; yet when I consider that I
am using the language of the majority of the people of whom
I treat, that to one of that nation, the care of giving publica-

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tion to my sentiments is to be confided ; moreover, that the
writers of this very country, hired by its rulers, have lor poli-
tical purposes been the authors of all the falsehoods and mis-
represer:tations that have disfigured and obscured the ancient
history of Britain, and of all the times of my adored Eri, I
have come to the resolution of leaving nothing unsaid that may
tend to diffuse light so clearly upon this subject, that it will
not be in the power of knavery to practise its frauds with suc-
cess for the times to come.

Whoever you are, that have been companion of my way
through so many regions, prithee let not the thought take up
its dwelling in your mind, that I speak thus arrogantly in the
conceit, that I am possessed of a greater portion of intellect
than other men. No, it is not from natural endowment, but
from superior information, not lying in the course of some, not
sought after by others, that I am enabled to present to the
world a more correct view of the ancient state of this celebrated
island, and to explain effects, by shewing their real causes,
hidden from others, from deficiency of means of penetrating
to the depths wherein they lie concealed ; others have had pre-
conceived systems, to support which they have had recourse to
conjectures and assertions, boldly hazarded, wherefrom they
have drawn conclusions, however satisfactory to themselves,
and to those who know no better than themselves, are always
absurd, because at variance with truth and wisdom, yet pre-
serve currency, because never thoroughly investigated, and
that they have acquired a confidence from time, and prejudice,
that usually taketh strong hold of the minds of men, even of
good understanding. But I had formed no previous judg-
ment, I have never indulged my fancy, nor presumed to
sport with the imagination of others in possibilities and proba-
bilities, I have never applied the term perhaps, nor given a
false colouring to representations. I promulgate facts capable
of demonstration, and demonstrated, perfectly indifferent
whether they be relished or not, disdaining to flatter or humour
error, though ever so long or firmly established ; pitying igno-
rance, which it hath been the object and study of my whole

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life to enlighten, to which I am always indulgent, holding in
sovereign contempt all, and they are not few, who think one
thing and say another, and never hesitate to barter a public
avowal of opinions, they do not entertain, for base and filthy
lucre.

That some parts of this system of Camden, and such like,
have been shaken, and some displaced, of late years, is true ;
but that the schemes substituted, tend not to the improvement
of the whole, is equally certain ; be it my task first to shew
that the world have been travelling a wrong track, though long
frequented, and much beaten, and then to point out the right
and ready way, whereby to arrive at the object of our research.
In the former I shall deal in negatives, in the latter I stand
on affirmatives, on warranty of the certainty of the facts I shall
deliver, vouched by the self same evidence to which Camden
hath with confidence appealed, and to which every man must
at last be constrained to refer every controversy concerning
the origin of emigrant nations, that is language.

1 assert the Kinmierioi, or Kimbroi, of the Greeks, the
CimmeriijCimbri, Germanni, of the Romans, never were known
by the name of Go-mer-i, or Go-niar-i.

That the Cimmerii Avere a distinct people from those called
Celtae, latterly exclusively called Galli.

And that the name of Gomer-i never did extend very far,
nor at all into Germany, nor into Gaul.

I affirm that the Druidic religion had been introduced into
Britain long before it was known in Gaul.

I declare, that of the sixty words set down by Camden,
which he hath adduced as proof of identity of origin of the
nations of Gaul and Britain, two-thirds are neither of Gallic
nor British extraction, whilst the manner in which they are
collated, manifests the most consummate ignorance, mingled
with no inconsiderable portion of puerile cunning, adult dis-
ingenuousness, and pedantic trifling, merely to serve apurj)ose.

I avouch that the people of Caledonia are not of the same
origin as any other of the nations dwelling in Britain, at the
time of the invasion of Julius Caesar, save the Belgae.

I affirm that the name of Britain is not derived from any

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one of the terms stated by Cambden, nor any thing like
thereta

And having affirmed these particulars in flat contradiction
to the learned Camden, and all his authorities, and denied
every sentiment he hath uttered, save the proximity of Gaul
and Britain, in which he could not err, I shall proceed first
to submit to you proofs from language in confirmation of my
confident assertions, and then so much of the ancient state of
Britain, as will suffice to dispel the mists in which this subject
hath been up to this hour obscured.

You have observed the sophistical logic so prevalent in the
days of Camden, by which he attempts to deduce the origin
of the first inhabitants of Britain, from Gomer, the son of
Japheth, in order to sustain the famous 5th verse of the 10th
chapter of Genesis.

" The Cimmerii, or Cimbri," (quoth he) " were first called
Gomeri."
" The ancient Britons call themselves Kumero and Cymri."
Ergo, the ancient Britons are Gomeri.
To which I reply, negatur major, negatur conclusio.
I beg to know from what source the information is derived,
that the Cimmerii or Cimbri were first, or ever called Gomeri,
or Goman. I call on any one to produce an authority of the
weight or strength of one thread of the spider's toil, to main-
tain the assertion ; it is a coinage from the mint of impious
frauds, a counterfeit of latter times, bearing no impression of
a Hebrew or any other antique stamp.

That a tribe of the Scythian race invaded the land of the
Gentiles is an historical fact, but the people called Gentiles,
known to the Hebrews, were the aborigines of Thrace, Mace-
don and Greece ; doth any man at this day, fancy that the
Hebrews knew any thing of the country north of Caucasus ;
it were well he reconsidered the evidence wherefrom his fancy
hath been formed ; of a certainty he will not find any founda-
tion for it, in the writings of the Hebrews, whilst abundance
of proof can be produced from Ezekiel, that they were alto-
gether ignorant of the emigration of the Goths, who, as they

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thought, came with Og, or Og-eis-cean, from Meshcch and
Tubal, when they invaded Asia ; that they knew nothing of
the country, north of Caucasus, and that they placed the tribe
wliom they called children of Gomc-r, somewhere to the north
of Judea, in the neighbourhood of Magh-og, south of Cauca-
sus, whereabouts is so imperfectly conjectured, that they are
supposed by some to be the people of Albania, by others of
Phrygia, Pontus, Paphhgonia and Pamphylia ; but let what
difference may exist as to their actual place, all agree that the
tribe called Gomeri, dwelled on a sea coast.

I liave had occasion heretofore to notice, that the Hebrews
were much addicted to the deriving names of countries from
individuals, proof of the long time that intervened between
the assumption of the specific denomination, and the record
thereof. In consequence of which, the tradition became ob-
scure, and as the easier method was to deduce the name from
a person, they adopted it almost invariably, though nothing
can be more erroneous ; and though those moderns v^ho have
been in the habit of not only taking the words of the Hebrews
upon trust without any investigation ; but of considering a
dissent therefrom near a kin to blasphemy, may be astounded
at the information, I shall take leave to say such an individual
as Gomer, never had existence, that the term is a compound
of the two original Scythian words, Go-moir, pronounced
Gomer, the literal signification of which is " To the sea," a
name given to a tribe of the Scythian nation of Asia Minor,
whose lands bordered on the sea, whether the Caspian, Euxine,
or Mediterranean, is not with sufficient precision ascertained.

But saith a man of hypothesis, may not a colony of this
tribe have surmounted Caucasus, penetrated mto Europe, and
assumed the name of Kimmerioi, antecedently to the invasion
of that quarter by the Scythian Goths ? undoubtedly any
thing may be conjectured, but there is not a tittle of evidence,
sacred or prophane, to use the vulgar phrase, to warrant the
supposition, and as the system hath been formed from simi-
larity of the words Gomeri and Chimmer-ioi, I must inform
you that the Chimmer-ioi or Chimbroi, as they were afterwards

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called, were not of Asiatic extraction, either Scythian or Sar-
matic, that the name was given by the Scythian Goths, to the
original inhabitants of the northern parts of Europe, in conse-
quence of the natural state of the climate, comparatively with
that of the country south of Caucasus, and signifies " Dark
and gloomy, the people of a land of perpetual winter," the
term Chimmerian being proverbially applied to any thing dark
or obscure ; there is no person acquainted with antiquity, who
doth not know that writers of ancient days, let them have
made what mistakes they may in other respects, never con-
founded Asiatics with Europeans, nor Africans with either,
they never mistook a nation of Chimmerioi or Cimbroi, for a
tribe of Scythians or Sarmatae, and vice versa.

And now to give you an idea of the learned Sasson anti-
quary Camden's application of the authority of Josephus,
for his opinion that the Cimmerii are descended from Gomer,
and to set at rest, for all times to come this priestly fable, I
will place before you the words of Josephus himself, as they
stand on the 1st section in the 6th chapter of the 1st book of
his Antiquities.

" Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians,
but were the7i called Gomerites ;" and again, " of the three
sons of Gomer, Aschanax founded the Aschanaxians, now
called by the Greeks Rheginians, so did Riphath found the
Ripheans, now called Paphligonians, and Thrugramma the
Thrugrummeans, who, as the Greeks have determined, were
named Phrygians." Now it is an historical fact, that a tribe
of Cimmerii, or Germanni, did burst forth of their forests,
more than 300 years before Christ, and having penetrated to
Asia Minor, expelled the Scythian Gomerians from a portion
of their lands, which from these invaders was afterwards called
Galatia by the Greeks, from which it appears, that it was the
Cimmerii intruded on the Scythian Gomerians in the east, in-
stead of the Gomerians intruding on the Cimmerii in the
west ; but what farther appears from this testimony of Jo-
sephus, whereon the learned Camden built his theory, that
the Cimmerii were the descendants of Gomer ? It appears

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that the sons of Gomer did not stray farther west than Pon-
tus, Paphligonia, and Phrygia, which points out the true
etymology of the name as I have heretofore explained ; whilst
from the circumstance of the Greeks calling this tribe of Cim-
merians, Gal, it is evident the Greeks, Romans, and Iberian
Scythians all applied the term Gal to a tribe of people,
which term was not confined to the nations south of the Rhine,
but extended north to the Baltic, passed from the Iberi of
Aquitania. This very evidence of Josephus, as far as his au-
thority is of avail, completely confounds the devices of those
who have had, or will have, the Cimmerii the children of
Gomer.

Seeing then that Gomerl were a tribe of Scythians of Asia
Minor, bordering on the sea ; that there is neither record, nor
yet tradition of their having colonized any part of Europe ;
and that the name hath no affinity whatever with Chimmer-ioi.
That attempt at a connexion being annihilated, I affirm that
the Chimmer-ioi were not of the same origin as the Celtas.

What, though [ should subject myself to the imputation of
proHxity and reiteration, I must repeat something of what I
have heretofore said I'especting the Cimmerii and Celtae.

Men have been long in the habit of dealing too much in ge-
neralties, which hath been productive of much embarrassment
in explaining origins of nations, and first principles of every
sort and kind ; accordingly we find them lumping all the peo-
ple of Europe together, as having one same origin, the fal-
lacy of which is evident by an attention to grand historic facts,
and above all, to language. No man can hesitate to assert
that the Tatars, the Indi, the Assyrians, and the Sc^'thians,
are distinct genera of the human species of Asia ; and there
is as little reason to doubt that there were many different ge-
nera of mankind in Europe also.

The knowledge of the Greeks of the northern parts of
Europe, was very imperfect; and of the Romans still more so,
till a late period. It was customary with the first invaders, to
give a name to the people and country nearest to them, which
name they applied to all the nations far and wide, as hereto-

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fore shewn ; and as tlie Goths found the country, dark, gloomy,
and cold, they called it Geimhra, the original word for winter,
and the inhabitants Geimarig, corrupted by the Greeks to Kinie-
rioi, by the Romans to Cinimerii ; but when from better acquaint-
ance by long residence on their borders, they discovered that the
aborigines had specific tribal denominations, they distinguished
them thereby. Accordingly we find the Cimmerii, corrupted
to Cimbri, called, in process of time, Germanni, their country
German-ia, evidently from their tradition of their being
sprung from Mannus and Earthum, divided into many na-
tions, each bearing its own peculiar appellation. In like
manner of the portion of Europe south of the Ister, we hear
the general name of Gentiles applied to all the native tribes,
as far as Illurike, which is also recognized in Cynurians,
Gigantes, and in Allod-eis, corrupted to Helot-es, whom the
Scythian invaders captivated, and converted to vile uses, whilst
the universal name of Ceiltig, corrupted to Keltikoi and Cel-
t£e, was given indiscriminately by the Scythians to all the ori-
ginal people south of the Ister and the Rhine, from the west-
ern extremity of Illurike, to the fancied end of the world ;
but as the invaders advanced, and became acquainted with
the natives, they adopted the vernacular name of some with
more or less variation, suited to their own tongue, or applied
names of their own to others, conformable to circumstances,
whilst the original name of Celtae was continued to all people
westward, of whom they were ignorant. Thus we learn that
the aborigines of the part of Italy invaded by CEnotrus,
though called Celtae aforetime, were afterward called by the
Scythians, Umbri ; so of the other little communities, to the
Alps, whilst all the country westward continued to be called,
even to the days of Julius Caesar, Celti-ca, or Gallia.

From all which it is apparent, if the evidence of antiquity,
delivered not for the pui'pose of supporting hypothetical sys-
tems, but of stating facts, be of avail, that the Cimmerii,
Cimbri, or Germanni, were no more of the same genus, of
the Umbri, Celtaj, Galli, though both were aboriginal Euro-
peans on their respective lands, than the Scythians and Assy-

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rians were of the same race, though both aboriginal Asiatics,
in their particular countries. These facts language attests,
and instructs me to know (which knowledge I have infinite
pleasure in imparting to mankind) that Go-mer-i signifies peo-
ple whose lands border on the sea ; that the Greek Chimmer-
ioi, from Cheima, winter, formed on the original Scythian
■word Geimhra, winter, denotes the inhabitants of a cold and
gloomy country ; that Kelti-koi of Greece, Celtse of Rome,
formed on the primitive word Ceiltig, concealed, hidden, was
the name applied by the Scythians to the aboriginal people of
Europe westward, of whom the Greeks and Romans knew
nothing, though they conjectured much ; and that Gal-oi of
the Grecians, Gall-i of the Romans, formed upon the ancient
word Gaal, denotes kindred. From this my knowledge,
whereby I am enabled to speak positively, and from the evi-
dence of men of ancient days, who were not occupied in esta-
blishing pious, or rather impious, frauds, I repeat with confi-
dence,

That the Cimmerii neither were, nor were ever called, Go-
meri ;

That the Cimmerii, and Galli, are not of the same race.

And I will presently demonstrate, that Cumarig, by which
name those aboriginal Britons who inhabit the part of Britain
now called Wales, distinguish themselves, hath not the slight-
est affinity with Cimmer-ii, or Cimbri, the two words being as
different as light and darkness, but that they are the genuine
aborigines of the isle of Britain, as old as the hills and dales
thereof; and that all the other parts of the conjectural scheme
of Camden, and such like, are as ill founded as his deduction
of origins, will clearly appear from a very brief statement of
facts, relating to times antecedent by one thousand years to
the epoch, whereat the profound Saxon antiquary would have
a British writer commence his history of Britain.

You are already in possession of my judgment, that this
globe always existed, though not a member of this solar sys-
tem, very many ages longer than the received European opi-
mon — how long no man can tell, nor ever can discover, (i)

CclxXX DEMONSTRATION.

That the human race, and every species of inhabitants ot
land, air, and waters, of vegetable, and fossil, were originally
produced, each in their peculiar element and climate ;

That mankind did not proceed from one pair of creatures ;

That the beings of this earth were not destroyed by a de-
luge ;

Consequently that there existed no necessity of replenishing
the world with inhabitants either from the plains of Shinar, or
the mountains of Ardmenia.

To apply these opinions to our more immediate subject, I
say that the island now treated of had its original people as
early as all other parts of this globe, with the attribute at-
tendant on their formation of organic power of modulating
their breath to the distinct articulation of words expressive of
their ideas, whereby they were enabled to communicate with
such of their species as they were in the habit of associating
with. What intercourse the nations of which, the whole is-
land was composed, might have had with eacli other, what
were their manners, customs, institutions, laws of earth and
air, there is no memorial, nor can I set forth, for all time and
times, till the precise epoch corresponding with 1036 years
betbre Christ, when having warranty for my speech I affirm,

That people from Sydon, passed Ard Ib-er, and the Breo-
cean of Gaelag, and landed on the southern coast of this island,
where and when they commenced the operation of exploring
the bowels of the earth, wherein they discovered the metals of
lead and tin, in which articles they carried on a lucrative trade
with the natives of the east.

That having established themselves in this quarter of the
island, they continued to increase their numbers, not from Sy-
don and their colonies in Spain only, but also by multitudes of
the Gaal of Sciot of Ibcr within Gaelag, and of the Gaal of
Iber within Buascc, independent Scythian nations, with whom
they made covenants, prescribing the terms of their mutual en-
gagements, whilst employed in working the mines, the first of
which covenants vvas entered into 1035 years before Christ, in
four years from which lime the sea opened a passage nigh unto

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the extremity of the land, leaving rocks in the ocean separated
from the main, of which facts, and many more particulars you
will be distinctly informed by the chronicles of Gaelag, till the
precise date of 1006 years before Christ, when the Gaal of
Sciot of Iber, or to speak more distinctively, the chief, nobles,
olam, all the Clanda Breoccean, with many of the Gaal took
their departure from Gaelag and emigrated to Eri.

What though their sojourn in Gaelag was no more than for
one and thirty years after the Sydonians had planted their
first colony in the land of metals, and there never was the
slightest intercourse between the Ib-er-ians of Eri, and the Sy-
donians from that day to this, yet in the occurrences of these
few years, we have a sure foundation for the very ancient notice
of this country, and the origin of Scythian tribes who colonized
and occupied a considerable portion thereof, at a time as remote
nearly as the arrival of the Pelasgoi in the southern part of
Greece ; synchronizing with the reign of Ammon Pharaoh
of Egypt, father of Sesostris, and with David chief of the
children of Israel, father of Solomon, five hundred years
before Home was founded, and one thousand years antecedent
to the era recommended by the learned Saxon antiquary Cam-
den, for the commencement of the ancient histoi-y of the
land.

That the Sydonians were the first stranger people known to
have entered this island is beyond question, that they wrought
the mines in the southern quarter thereof is equally certain,
and that they were jealous of their acquisition, and guarded i^
with the most scrupulous secrecy, are facts of notoriety, which
last, together with the destruction of the Phoenician records,
though they have occasioned a lack of detail of the ancient
history of the island, from the epoch of their first acquaintance
therewith, one memorial even yet hath not perished, on which
their mercantile jealousy hath made no ravage, which the
flames of Alexandria could not destroy, yea which even to this
hour hath defied all the efforts of Saxon ignorance, brutaUty,
and despotism, innumerable proofs of which it will still endure

cclxxxii demonstHation.

to record in its own native style, if I shall not shortly
perish.

Pliny hath conjectured, that an individual whom he calls
Medicritus, was the first that brought lead ex insula Cassiteride,
and to Avhom is ascribed the founding of Carteia in Spain, about
the same time that Carthage was founded by Dido, which Slrabo
says was presently after the war of Troy ; what a melange of
nonsense ! ! It is enough for our present purpose to shew that
the date of the building of Carthage is ascertained to the year
88.3 before Christ,; therefore following these authorities, it
might be said that this island was not known to the Phoenicians
for an hundred and sixty years later than the chronicles of
Gaelag declare, if such even was the case, the proofs about to
be adduced would not be injured in the shghtest degree, the
Sydonians and Carthaginians having used the same language ;
but nothing is farther from my thoughts than to admit that this
island was not discovered, and entered at the date afore-
mentioned by the Phoenicians from Sydon, I rely with confi-
dence on the accuracy of the chronicles of Gaelag, on which
there neither is, nor with truth could be any mention of Cartha-
ginians,"* the Ib-erians having emigrated to Eri, one hundred
and twenty-three years before Carthage was in existence.

The facts of the discovery of the southern coast of this island
by the Phoenicians, their settlement therein, trade therewith
being established, permit me to present you with a reg\ilar and
orderly detail of the origin of the various tribes that have from
10f57 before Christ, till the arrival of the Normans in 1066 since
Christ, emigrated to this famous island, whereupon I shall
make such observations, as shall be conducive to your perfect
acquaintaace with the subject.

Antecedently to 1037 before Christ, let men of scheme and
hypothesis conjecture as they will, and have, I neither know
nor pretend to know any thing of this island.

Then appeared on the shores of the south Sydonians, who
entered the land, and if they did not displace the natives, they
mingled with them, became influential in that quarter, and
certainly insinuated their language to so great a degree, that it

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must be inferred a great proportion of the population of Britain,
that is Dun-mianac, that is the present Devon and Cornwall,
was Scythian.

The increase of these strangers witliin the country, and fresh
supplies continually pouring in fi-om Sydon and Spain, pro-
ducing the necessity of extending their limits, tribes moved
ilorthward, crossed the Severne, and seated themselves in the
prest;nt districts of Glamorgan, Monmouth, Hereford, Brecon,
and Radnor, assuming the specific denomination of Sul-ureis,
changed by the Romans to Silures, of these the chronicles of
Gaelag could not have spoken, and the chronicles of Eri, are
altogether silent.

But from the chronicles of Eri we learn distinctly, that mul-
titudes of the Gaal of Sciot of Iber, within Gaelag, and of the
Gaal of Iber within Buasce, employed in the mines of Dun-
mionac, with whom the Sydonians were dealing treacherously,
did burst forth of the caverns of the earth, and steering north-
ward, established themselves on the coast opposite Im-aon-ar, this
day the Isle of Man, whence they spread farther north, and east-
ward, and in process of time extended their jurisdiction over
the present districts of Lancaster, Westmoreland, Cumberland,
York, and Durham, where they are recognized by their ancient
Iber-ian name of Breocceant-eis, changed by the Romans to
Brigantes.

These tribes who came to establish themselves in the countries
aforementioned, and to exercise su preme power therein, the
first aliens known to have intruded on the aborigines, were of
Scythian extraction.

The next invaders were Cimmerii, in the most enlarged sense
of the term, from the western shore of the Euxine, a tribe of
the nation of Basternae, which had assumed the distinct name
of Pence, latinized by the Romans on their original land to
Peucini, on Britain to Picti. They first appeared on the water
of Feobal, in the northern extremity of Eri, in 299 before
Christ; from 'whence, finding the land full, they shaped their
course eastward, and seated themselvtJs in the northern parts
of the island of which we are speaking. Of this tribe the

CclxXXiv DEMONSTRATION.

chronicles of Eri, are full and explicit, the history of whom is
intimately connected with our annals, as you will see.

The next adventurers were Cimmerii of the south west of
Germany, known by the name of Belgae, who having passed
the Rhine, possessed themselves of the country called Gallia
between that river and the Sean, from whence they crossed
over to this island, where they acquired the present districts of
Hants, Wilts, and Somerset, at what time is left to conjecture,
and supposed to be about 200 or 300 years antecedently to
the birth of Christ.

Next came a tribe of Attrebates from Gaul, who occupied
the present Berks.

Such was the origin of these nations in their respective posi-
tions, 50 years before Christ, when Julius Caesar, with some
few Roman Scythians, and a motley group, a disciplined ban-
ditti of auxilaries, composed of Germanni and Galli, subjected
by the arms to the will of Rome, invaded this island, from whence
the aborigines twice drove him with disgrace, notwithstanding
the false colouring given by his own pencil to the representa-
tions of his unprovoked assaults. May annihilation be the fate
of all invaders of the laws, and liberties of independent nations,
and so it will, if the people be but firm and true to themselves.
Such continued to be the state of the country at 50 years
after Christ, when the Romans recommenced their aggression,
from which they desisted not, till they had garrisoned, bridled,
and reduced to subjection, more by reason of the dis-union and
want of co-operation of the several nations, than of their own
prowess, the entire island, save Caledonia, wherein their juris-
diction never was ascendant.

Whilst the Romans were in progress towards the perfection
of the work of subjugation, a colony of the Gaal of Sciot of
Ib-er in Eri, entered the land of the Peuci, about the year of
Christ 258, under the conduct of Eocaid Cairbre, the son of
Conaire, who had gotten the name of Righ-fada. This Gaal
of Scythians were invited by the Peuci to Caledonia, and re-
ceived from them a grant of territory in the western, quarter of
their land, which they called Ard-gael, and Dal Righ-fada,

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neither acquired, nor retained partly by enlreaty, partly by
force^ as Bcde relates, but granted freely, and held by a species
of military tenure from the people, and chief of Caladun, on
condition of the Sciot being aiding to them, in defence of their
laws and liberties (on which depend life and land) against the
Roman spoiler, which service they performed bravely and
faithfully, as the hatred and calumny of the Romans, (expressed
by the poets laureat of Rome, in their fulsome, lying panegy-
rics on the heads of the ruling faction, for which no doubt the
flatterers received ample reward,) and the result (found in the
successful efforts of these friends and allies) sufficiently
avouch.

The foreigners who next arrived in this island, were tribes of
Cimmerians, called Jutes, Sassons, and Angles, from the year
of Christ 450 to 550.

For the purpose of connecting these three Germannic nations,
I deferred the mention of another colony of Scythians from Eri,
in the year 503, led by Feargus, son of Eocaid Muineamhar,
who were seated south of their brethren of Dal-righ-fada, on
the other side of the waters of Cluid, along the coast of the
ocean, from thence to MuUac Gaal-adh-biadh, invited also by
the Peuci, to strengthen them against the Sassons, who instead
of friends and allies to the Britons whom they came to assist,
had become treacherous foes and barbarous tyrants, ever con-
sistent at all events, insomuch that even language isnot necessary
to prove origin in their particular : Pirates, and inhuman in
the time of Tacitus, pirates and inhuman in the days of
CConnor, allies and auxilaries under the garb of friendship,
presently principals, instantly tyrants, applying the terms rebels
and traitors to the very people, who, in an evil hour, suffered
them to interfere in their concerns. Semper idem !

After these herds of pirates, came Scandinavian pirates also,
from Norway and Denmark, towards the end of the 9th century,
when the former made themselves masters of the isles north of
Caladun, and west of Dal-righ-fada, and the latter seized on
the country of the East Angles, Mercia, and a considerable

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part of North Humber-land, and reduced the whole of Anglo-
land, which was not recovered by the Sassons, till 1042.

The next invaders in order of succession, and the last, were
Germanni, who first acquired possession of a part of the lands
of the Gaal of Armorice, from them called Normandie, from
whence a colony landed in the south of this island, and by the
success of one battle, obtained the undisturbed dominion of
the country from the German ocean east, to the Severn west,
and from the southern extremity of the land, to the border of
Caladun ; which event took place in the year 1066.

At which date you perceive the entire of the island was in-
habited by the Aborigines, by Scythians from Phoenicia, Galli-
cla, and Biscay, by Cimmerii of the different tribes of Peucini,
Belgae, Jutes, Sassons and Angles, by Scythian Romans, Scythi-
ans of Eri, and by Scandinavian Norwegians and Danes, and by
Normanni ; of whom all had arrived here antecedently to 550
of the christian era, save the Scandinavians and Normanni, of
the former of whom there is no necessity to speak, their lan-
guage having made little -perceptible impression, the people
being rather roving, praedatory banditti, than systematic con-
querors, and of the last I shall for a while postpone the consi-
deration, not being immediately connected with one present
enquiry, which is language, whereby I mean to demonstrate
the origin of each, which will shew various objects in the true
light, coiTect multitudinous errors, and tend to the utter ex-
tinction of the absurd schemes, theories and hypotheses, that
have drawn the minds of Europeans far from the path of
truth ; for this purpose, we must look for information to be
confidently relied on, respecting the languages in common use
amongst the people who dwelled on this island, at the date of
550, when the last of the tribes above mentioned were on the
land ; and as- 1 know of no writer at or about that time com-
parable to Bede in terrestrial matters, 1 shall state from him
that " There were five languages when he wrote about 730,
namely that of the Angli, the Britons, the Scots, the Picts,
and the Romans," on which fact, and his classification, a few
observations must be made.

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That he gave precedence to the Angli, though the last of
these five nations, is easily accounted for by the circumstance
of his being one of that people ; but if he meant by the Scoti,
only those tribes from Eri, led by Eocaid Cairbre and Feargus,
to Caladun, why range them before the Picts, who had been
seated in Ailb-bin for 500 years, and before the Romans who
had subjected the greater part of the island 200 years antece-
dently to the coming of the first of these Scots to Ardgael ; on
this arises a question, did Bede contemplate the Scythian
tribes of Dun-mionac, Silures and Brigantes, and identify them
with their brethren from Eri ? if so, the order is correct, with
the exception of the Angli, the violation in which respect is
accounted for from his being an Anglus ; if he had not the
ancient Scythian or Scottish tribes in his mind, all is confusion,
and he stands Hable to the charge of an anachronism without
an object, and of being an ignorant or careless writer, but as
his works, save those on miracles and mysteries, prove him to
have been a remarkably accurate and precise writer, I am
incHned to think that he is not chargeable with an error, and
that he meant by the Scoti as well the very ancient tribes of
that race on Dunmianac, and those distinguished by the names
of Silures and Brigantes, as well as those from Eri ; and I am
more particularly induced to this judgment, from my opinion
of the wisdom of Bede, and from my knowledge that he would
have been, and was perfectly correct in so doing, as shall be
distinctly proved ; at all events, be it as it may, we have on
his authority the fact ascertained, that there were in his time,
five languages spoken by the various nations throughout
Britain and Ailb-bin ; which fact I beg to impress deeply on
your memory, it being demonstrative of the truth of what I
undertook to prove at the commencement of this Demonstration,
for as Cambden has repeated from others v/ho repeated from
their precursors, " Every argument of the origin of emigrant
nations must, after all, be referred to language," you will have
the goodness to bear in mind, that the languages of the various
tribes of the Cimmerii, of the Britons, and of the Scots, are

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declared by Bede who wrote 1200 years ago, to be different
and distinct.

But let it be supposed that Bede had expressly confined the
Scythian language to the Scots of Ailb-bin ; I would enquire
what bad become of the language of Dunmianac, the Silures,
and the Brigantes, was it lost in Bede's time ? did it merge in
the British or Roman languages ? did no visible vestige thereof
remain? to which I reply, it was not lost, it did not merge in
the British nor the Roman ; it did exist in the days of Bede,
and doth endure at this hour in form, mien, structure, and a
considerable proportion of the very nomenclature of the British
language, not merged, nor buried, but alive, prominent and
discernable, recognized not only by the right owners, but by
the ancient Britons who have adopted, fondly cherished, ana
gratefully acknowledge their obligations to it, as a treasure by
which their language hath been greatly enriched.

So notorious is this fact, so obvious to every man well versed
in the Scythian language of £ri, and in the British tongue,
that Edward Lwhyd, by far the most competent scholar of all
the Britons, not only in his own vernaclur tongue, but in
the language of Eri, in his deep researches into the antiquity
of his country, finding that nearly all the names of places,
lands and watei-s, hills and dales, throughout this island were
in a language not British, that the idiom and form of the
British language was cast in the mould of Eri, and that a very
great part of the British agreed with the Irish, was forced
upon the necessity of having recourse to a scheme for the pur-
pose of endeavouring to account for this (to him) phonorae-
non ; which scheme together with his arguments, I will lay
before you in as many of his own words as will suffice to
enable you to form your judgment.

1st. Quoth he, " I am of opinion that the old inhabitants
of Ireland consisted of two nations, Guydhelians and Scots.

2d. " That the Guydhelians descended from the most ancient
Britons, and the Scots from Spain.

3d. " That the Guydhelians lived in the most ancient times,
not only in north Britain, (where they still continue intermixed

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with Scots, Saxons and Danes,) but also in England and
Wales.

4th. « That the said Guydhalians of England and Wales
were inhabitants of Gaul, before they came into this island.

" Having been so bold as to write such novelties, and yet at
the same time to acknowledge I have no written authority for
them, I am obliged to produce what reasons I have

<* I have already proved at large in the 1st and 2d section of
this book, that the Welch language agrees with a very great
part of the Irish, and in the Irish grammar you will also find,
that the genius or nature of their language in their changing
the initial letters in the same manner, &c. is also agreeable to
the Welch, and as by collating the languages, I have found
one part of the Irish reconcileable to the Welch, so by a dili-
gent perusal of the New Testament, and manuscript papers
written in the language of the Cantabrians, I had had a
satisfactory knowledge as to the affinity of the other part with
the old Spanish, for though a great deal of that language be
retained in the present Spanish, yet much better preserved do
we find it amongst the Cantabrians.

" Now my reason for calling the British-Irish, Guydhelians,
and those of Spain, Scots, is because the old British manu-
scripts call the Picts Fitchid Guydhelians, and the Picts were
Britons without question, as appears not only by the name of
them in Latin and Irish, but by the names of the mountains
and rivers in the lowlands of Scotland, where they inhabited,
and there probably they are yet, (though their language be
lost,) intermixed with Scots, Strat-Clyad Britons, old Saxons,
Danes and Normans. As for the intitling the Spanisli-Irish
Scots, there wants no authority, the Irish authors having con-
stantly called the Spanish colony Kin-Skuit, or the Scottish
nation ; no more therefore need be said to prove the Guydhe-
lian-Irish, ancient Britons ; and as to the Scots it is only neces-
sary we should produce examples of the affinity of the old
Spanish with the present Irish, as follows*" One hundred in-
stances of which having set down, he proceeds : " Much more
might be added to these, not only out of the Cantabrian, but
t

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also out of the present Spanish, notwithstanding the great
alteration in that language by the Latin and Arabic,

" Seeing then it is somewhat manifest that the ancient inha-
bitants (of Ireland) consisted of two nations, that the Guydhe-
lians were Britons, and that Nennius and others wrote many
ages since an unquestionable truth, when they asserted the
Scots of Ireland coming out of Spain, the next thing I have
to make out is, that that part of them called Guydhelians
have once dwelt in England and Wales. There are none of
the Irish themselves that I know of, amongst all the writings
they have pubhshed about the history and origin 'of their na-
tion, that maintain they were possessed of England and
Wales, and yet whoever takes notice of a great many of the
names of the rivers and mountains throughout the kingdom,
will find no reason to doubt, but the Irish must have been the
inhabitants when those names were imposed upon them," some
few of which Lhyd notices, then adds, " and several others
which manifest that the Irish were anciently possessed of those
places."

He then remarks that the words he had quoted, though in
common use amongst the Irish, are not to be found in the
British, wherein he hath searched for them in vain. " Therefore,"
he repeats, " I could find no place to doubt but the Guhyd-
helians have formerly lived all over the kingdom, and that our
ancestors had forced the greatest part of them to retire to the
north, and to Ireland, in the same manner that the Romans
afterwards subdued us, and as the barbarians of Germany and
Denmark upon the downfal of the Roman empire, have driven
us one age after another to our present limits; we see then
how necessary the Irish language is to those loho shall under-
take to write of the antiquity of the isle of Britain^ and by
reading the first section of this book, it will be also evident,
that it is impossible to be a complete master of the ancient
British, without a competent knowledge of the Irish, besides
the languages of Cornwall and Bass Bretagne ;" for which
opinion he instances a few words of the most ordinary use,
" and so for a great many words which we have neither leisure

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nor room to take notice of at present, nor indeed occasion, m
regard they are obvious to all observers in the following book :
the next thing to be proved is, that those ancient Guydhelians
were a colony of those nations whom the Romans called Galli,
or Celtae, and this will appear from a comparison of both their
languages. I have observed to you how that may be done in
the English preface, and have no room to insert here but the
few examples following, where the leading words are Celtic,
collected out of old Latin books." then follow eight and twenty
words, which he collected out of old Latin books, and fancied
were Celtic or Gallic.

Such are tlie words, such the matured judgment of Edward
Luhyd, concerning the most ancient names of places in divers
parts of the island of Britain, which names I will now set
down orthographicall)', as in the days of Camden, and collate
with names of the like signification in the language of E-ri, lit-
erally expounded, not one word of a doubtful or ambiguous
meaning shall be noticed, nor shall the form of a syllable be
distorted, for the unworthy purpose of forcing to similitude
figures that have no family resemblance each to the other,
which curious comparison and analysis, I shall commence with
the name of this wonderful island.

Bri-tain, Breo-tan, " the land of flaming fires." You have

read the many conjectures on the derivation
of the name of this celebrated island, with
the repetition of none of which can I have
the cruelty to torment you, save that of Cam-
den, who deduces the word from the native
Brith, and the Grecian Tania, the former
painted, the latter a country, that is " the
painted country." Here at the outset, Cam-
den has betrayed his ignorance in fancying
that the country received its name from the
Greeks, it being a fact indisputable that they
knew little, if any thing, more than this'name
for the island, for hundreds of ages after the
Phoenicians had discovered this land. In the

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language of tlie Phoenicians therefore, and
that only, must we look for the origm of the
name of Bri-tain.

To decide arbitrarily in a case, become, from its remotest an-
tiquity, long since questionable, to say positively that the
Phoenicians did not add their Tan to the vernacular Brith,
would be to arrogate the office of dictator, an imputation to
which I will not render myself liable, yet as I feel myself
constrained to reject this solution, I also feel it incumbent on
me to offer my reasons therefor, which are to be found in the
ancient history of that part of the island to which the name
had been first applied, viz. Cornwall and Devon, and to that
only.

Now supposing that the Phoenicians, on their entrance upon
the land, were struck with the painted appearance of the na-
jves, from which they gave a name to them and the country,
I ask whether you think they would have used a word of their
own language, or of the people of the country, whereby to
denote them ? this question you will resolve according to your
judgment, to aid and direct which I shall take the liberty to
inform you, " that history doth not warrant the assumption,
that the natives did then paint their bodies ;" though we learn
from Julius Csesar, one thousand years after the time I now
speak of, that the tribes he saw applied the juice of the woad
to their skins. To prove with the precision absolutely re-
quisite on this occasion, it must be shewn that not only the
nations he happened to be acquainted with, but those of
Dun-mia-nac, that is Cornwall and Devon, yea the people of
Eri, and of all the isles adjoxning to both, all being called
British isles, also practised the custom, not of painting, but of
daubing their skins, very different from painting, and as it is
ascertained for very truth that such was not the case, methinks
we must have recourse to the language of the people, whose
claim is on all hands allowed to the latter part of the com-
pound, for the entire of the name, the propriety of which will
be best manifested by the following facts.

If you have hitherto imagined that the Phoenicians applied

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the name in the first instance to the entire island, or that the
many tribes thereon, knew themselves even in the time of
Julius Caisai', by the name of Britons, you have assuredly
been in error ; nay, the Phoenicians were acquainted only with
the southern coast when they imposed the name on the district
which they occupied, colonized, the bowels of which they ex-
plored, from whence they exported a vast quantity of lead and
tin, wherewith they supplied the nations of the east, from
which district the name spread, till in process of time it ex-
tended north to Ailb-bin, and at length pervaded the whole
island, as heretofore explained in Germania.

Now it is a fact indisputable, that on all the head lands of
Gael-ag, that is Ard-Ib-er, Fir-olj and Ard-na-gael, and all the
proniontoiies looking over that ocean, it was the custom to
kindle fires, and keep them blazing during the darkness of the
night, to be the means of directing the seafaring ones, and of
protecting them from the perils of the vast deep, which parti-
cular kind of fire is called in the language of Phoenicia, Breo,
for which reason all the head lands of Gael-ag were called
Breo-cean, in like manner, on the part of this island, opposite
to Gael-ag, it being necessary to observe the same salutary
custom, for the purpose of guiding the mariners of Phoenicia
on their way from Breo-cean to the land of their new and pro-
fitable acquisition, they gave it the name of Breo-tan, which in
their tongue signifies " the land of flaming fires," that is that
kind of fire of which the flame or blaze is seen at a great dis-
tance, by the light of which they were directed in their pas-
sage between Breo-ccean and Breo-tan.

That the general name of the promontories of Gaelag was
Breo-ccean is unquestionable, which Gaelag is the modern
Galicia, and which Breo-ccean is the corrupted Brigantia of
the Romans, accordingly wc learn from Orosius, who wrote
1400 years ago, speaking of times long before his days, says
that, " a high tower at Brigantia in Galicia, of admirable struc-
ture, was built, ad speculam Britanige," and as fires were of
a date much more ancient than towers, it is clear this light
house, of which Orosius speaks, was an improvement on the

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more ancient, consequently more rude method of feeding fires
in the open air, whilst the precise expression, *' ad speculam
Britaniae," distinctly shews, that these night fires, whether in a
tower, or on the beacons, had reference only to Breo-tan ; if
confirmation were farther necessary, I would refer to the illus-
trious Alfred, a name immortalized, did not the wearer drive a
foreign tyrant from his land ? he was vaUant, he was good, and
not only good but valiant. Eri, my beloved, thou instructed this
worthy of ancient days, when thou hadst the gift of instruction
before thy children became slaves ; thou taught this glorious
Sasson the use of letters, which he applied to the attainment
of knowledge, whereby he was enabled to translate into his
own tongue the writing of Orosius, of whom I have just made
mention, as also writings of Bede, in his version of which he
hath translated the Latin Bri-tain-ia into Breo-tene. Alfred
was a scholar, he wrote with care, that his writings may make
addition to his renown and glory.

I take the liberty of re-asserting, that the name of the is-
land is Breo-tan, both PhcEnician words, the import already
explained, and that from the Phoenicians, the word passed to
the Greeks, who altered it somewhat, to shape it according
to their idea of taste, to Bret-tania, Bre-tania, Bret-tannike,
Bre-tanike, and even Pret-tannike ; from the Greeks the
Romans heard of the name, which they called Bri-tannia, yet
so ignorant were they of the country, that they knew not, till
the time of Agricola, that it was an island, though even the
Greel-s, who had but a very imperfect knowledge thereof
from the Phoenicians, were certainly acquainted with that fact
in the time of Onomacritus, 500 years before Christ, in both
which dialects of the ancient Scythian tongue you perceive no
such great alteration hath been made, as to obscure the more
primitive Phcenician name of the island, which hath been ad-
mirably preserved in its present form of Bri-tain, through so
many ages and vicissitudes.

Should it be asked, what proof is to be had of the value
of the Greek Bre, or the Roman Bri ? I reply, both are cor-
ruptions of the Phoenician Breo ; that very many ancient

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Scythian words, preserved in the Phoenician, Hebrew, and
Ib-er-ian dialects, have become obsolete in the dialects of
Greece and Rome, or so cut up as to be barely recognizable ;
and that this particular term for blazing fire may have been
actually unknown to Greeks and Romans, though in common
use with maritime people, such as the Phoenicians and Ibe-
rians of Gallicia, the word never being applied to any fire
but flame, and that appropriated chiefly to the direction of
sea-faring people. Amongst the Romans, I know riot of any
simple, or part of any compound, that gives room to suppose
that people had such a word in use, though the term is disco-
verable in the Grecian dialect ; in the Eolic Bro-don, a rose,
from its flaming red colour, of which in common parlance
we yet say as red as a rose ; in Bro-tos, Bro-too, Bro-toeis,
all denoting blood, the most deep of all colours, as flariie is of
all fires ; Brazo, to be ardent ; but away with such critical
trifling. The genuine etymology of the name is to be ex-
plained on grand and general principles, which are laid in the
necessity that gave birth to the imposition thereof; which
necessity was the night fires to guide the Phoenician mariners
from Breo-ccean, even unto Breo-tan, that is from Spain to
Britain ; and that the word is purely Phoenician, will more
fully appear from the fact about to be demonstrated, that all
the ancient names of remarkable places in Dun-mia nac, that
is Cornwall and Devon, are Phoenician, a fact well known to
Edward Luhyd, though he hath erred egregiously in his man-
ner of accounting for it, as shall be fully and satisfactorily
explained.

Dun-mia-nac " Hills of mines." This was the name

given by the Phoenicians to Cornwall
and Devon, from the great quantity
of lead and tin found in this district,
which, as before-mentioned, was the
part of the island to which the name
of Breo-tan had originally been ap-
pUed by that people
Corn-wall Carna-gael, " the cam or altars of the

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Gaal or tribe ;" such are the words in
the Phoenician tongue, and such the
EngUsh interpretation thereof. In
the dialect of Greece, Cama-gael
would be Cherma-gal-oos ; now to
shew that some original words in the
Scythian language are supposed not
to be known by the Romans, and are
compounded in a manner that the
primitive meaning is lost sight of,
where tliink you to seek for this word
Carn in the Latin dialect of the Scy-
thian tongue ? You will suppose, till
you have farther information, that it
is not to be found in Carn-ifex, the
common translation of which is an
" executioner," a " rogue," a " male-
factor," Carn-ificina, " a place where
malefactors are executed," Carn-ificor,
" to be cruelly killed, to be executed."
According to the knowledge of the
schools, you have been told that all
these words have the same root as
Car-narius, a butcher, derived from
Caro, flesh meat, &c., and under this
impression, if you was called on to
render the Iberian Camagael, the
Greek Cherma-gal-oos into the Roman
tongue, you could only do it by the
use of a periphrasis, thus, " Acervus
parvorum lapidum Glo-tis;" but I
would say, Carna Glolis. A Cam is
a heap of small stones, on which an
inferior order of priesthood, from
thence called Cameach, used to offi-
ciate ; they are also found on the
summits of hills whereon Breo, that

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is fire, blazed for beacons, as signals ;
but they were also the only heaps
raised over those, who came by a vio-
lent or sudden death ; and in Ireland
the custom is practised to this day of
throwing a small stone on passing the
place, where one had been accidentally
killed, which was considered so great
an evil, that a more bitter malediction
could not be uttered than
" Bi em Cam do lead,
" May the Carn be thy bed,"
This did not take its rise in Eri, from any turpitude at-
tached to the mode of interment; but not so amongst the
Romans, as we learn from the epitaph ascribed to Virgil on a
noted robber called Balista,

" Monte sub hoc lapidum tegitur Balista sepultus
" Nocte, die, tutum carpe viator iter." —
Which mountain of stones was nothing else than a Scythian
Carn, which amongst the Romans, as collected from these
lines, was the place of execution, and interment of malefac-
tors, for which reason an executioner, and a robber, were
both called Carn-ifex, and a place where malefactors were ex-
ecuted, was called Carn-ificina, not from Car-o, flesh, but be-
cause the Carn was the place of their interment, as well as
execution. These Cams abound on all the lands of Breo-tan
colonized by the Scythians, and in Eri they are infinite. That
this district of Breo-tan or Dun-mia-nac, had the first part of
its name from these altars and beacons is certain, not from
Cornu, the Roman horn ; and that the second part of the
compound is Gaal, a tribe or kindred, shall be shewn when I
come to treat of Wales. What an absurdity to deduce its
name from Cornu Wallite, a composition of Latin and Sasson ;
it had the name of Carna Gael 500 years before the name of
Rome was, and 1600 years before such a word as Wales had
been heard of. No, no ; the word is purely Phoenician ; in

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that language alone, can the primitive name be found, there-
fore can it be explained by the language of Eri only.
Cassiterides Casan-tur-eider, " a path between the

lands," as shall receive a full expla-
nation in a note on the Chronicles of
Gaelag, in the proper place
Sciily Scaolead, pron. Scilly, " separated,

torn asunder.'" These rocks and is-
lands had once been attached to the
main, till the year 1034 before
Christ, when the sea tore a passage
through and through, as particularly
related in the Chronicles of Gaelag ;
the same name for the same reason
was by the Phoenicians applied to the
islands of Ceylon and Sicily, subjected
to their present corruptions ; and by
us of Eri, the name is given to many
small islands near the shore, supposed
to have been violently separated from
the main land
Tin Stan. That Stan was the original word

for this metal, appears from the pre-
servation of the term in Stanaries,
and in the Roman Stannus.
Having explained the signification of these most ancient
names by the Phoenician language, I shall follow Camden, and
his commentator Gibson, giving their conjectures of the names
of places in Cornwall and Devon, which I shall collate with
my intimate knowledge thereof, leaving the decision to your
judgment.

Belerium Balerig, pron. Baleri, " the place of the

Brians or Iberians." Diodorus Sicu-
lus, in the 2d chapter of his 5th
Book says, " they who inhabit the
British promontory of Belerium, by

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"' • ' reason of their converse with mer-

chants, are more civilized and cour-
teous to strangers, than the rest are.
These are the people who make the
tin, which, with a great deal of care
and labour, they dig out of the
ground," &c. Now it appears from
the Chronicles of the tribe that colo-
nized Eri, and also Breo-tan, that
they were expert miners in Iberia
near Caucasus ; that they assisted the
Phoenicians in their mines in Spdn,
and it is also evident from Ezekiel,
that they were skilled in the art, to
which let me add, Iber and miner are
synonimous in the Hebrew dialect of
the Scythian language.
Let us now attend Camden.

" The Britons call the utmost promontory Pen-rhin-guaed,"
1. e. " the promontory of blood," but these are only the bards
and poets, for the British historians call it Pen-with, that is,
" a promontory to the left ;" from hence the whole hundred is
called " Pen-with," and by the inhabitants in their language
" Pen-von-las,"" " the end of the earth," in which sense the
English term it the Land's End, as being the farthest part of
the island westward. Now if this promontory was ever called
Helen-um, it would be from Pen-elin, which in British signi-
fies an elbow ; it cannot therefore be any absurdity to imagine,
that this winding shore should be called in the same sense by
the Britons, Pen-elin, from whence came the Latin Helen-um.
The neighbours will tell you too, from a certain old tradition,
that the land there drowned by the incursions of the sea, was
called Lionesse.'' So far Camden. Here let me make an ob-
servation, which will assist you in the following analysis, and
afford proof positive of the total difference between the Irish
and British languages ; that of many words which form very
ancient names of places, one part of the composition is Irish,

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the other British, and that nearly all the words have suffered
some alterations from the primitive Phoenician language, con-
formable to the British tongue, which primitive term, with
the mutation by the Britons, and the translation into the Sas-
son language, I shall now set before you.
Pen-rhin-guaed Binn-rinn, " the summit of the cape or

promontory;" guaed is British, the
term therefore is compounded of two
Phoenician, and one British word,
the two former only of which I recog-
nize in the language of Eri
Pen-with Bun-bith, " the end of the world." In

no language that Europeans ever
heard of, is « With" « the left." The
Phoenicians, when they gave the name
of Bun-bith to this place, did really
suppose that it was one extremity of
the earth
Pen-von-las Bun-fonn-las, " the light at the extre-

mity of the land," that is the last
light of all Breo-tan. What do these
names shew, but that Pen-with and
Pen-von-las, were in fact one and the
same, precisely as the ^ Sassons now
say, " the last light house at the
Land's End"
Pen-Elin Binn-uilean, " the cape at the elbow ;"

as the Greeks would say, Boun-os-
Olen-es, which, by the omission of
the terminations, and standing in
their original shape, would be Bouu-
Olen, formed on Binn-Uilean of Phoe-
nicia and Eri
Lionesse Il-inis-c, " it is a large island." From

Camden you must suppose that the
place had its name from its being
drowned in the sea ; but his better

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Port-Inis
Pen-sance

Dinsol

Grodolcan

informed commentator Gibson, notes,
'* There is an island lies before the
promontory, which gave occasion to
the name"
Bort-Inis, '* the entrance of the island"
Binn-sean-ce, ** the old head land,"
which Camden was told meant " the
head of the sand." I marvel he did
not say sands, quasi Seance, and argue
that it was named by the Sassons
Dun-s-ol, " the great fastness." Cam-
den says it was called by the inhabit-
ants Careg Cowse, which he translates
" Hoary rock,'" a term compounded
of a Phoenician and a British word ;
Coraig being the Phoenician word for
a rock ; Cowse, I know not
Gaoi-dail-cean, pronounced " Gu-dol-
caun." It is not easy to render this
compound into English, the significa-
tion of which is " That its head hath
a deceitful appearance, varying accord-
ing to the position in which it is
viewed." Samnies asserts that Godo-
lonac is Phoenician for tin, Stan is
Phoenician for tin, very different from"
Godolonac
Lo-bol, " hole of water," the term Lo
is frequently applied to lakes, occa-
sioned by the communication subter-
raneously of waters of the sea, or
rivers therewith.
From Loopole, Camden proceeds thus, " At a little distance
from thence, there is a military camp, (they call it earth,) the
Peninsula itself in which it stands is called Meneg ; this earth
is called by mariners, " Lizard," on which Gibson notes,
" Going along the sea coast, we come to the Chersonne, called

Loopok

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Menag, which is also the earth," in it (a monument mentioned
by Camben,) ^^ late curious writer (the aforesaid Sammes,)
will have of a Phoenician original, the first from Mene-og, sig-
nifying " Kept in by the sea ;" the second from Arith, a
common name for lakes ; now pray mark how much more
satisfactorily all these terms are explained by their native lan-
guage.

Men-og «A little mouth or entrance," which

little mouth extended from the upper
stream of a water, now called the
passage, to another river that runs
into the Lowe ; from the narrowness
of that entrance doth the Peninsula
derive its name.
Lizard Lios-ard, " the high fort ;" and such is the

ancient name of this place, there being
no more common name for strong
places at this day in Eri than Lios,
which is distinguishable from all other
kinds of fortresses by its being com-
posed of stones. Sammes never
thought that the Phoenician language
would rise up against his evidence,
therefore he amused his readers with
his absurdities. Mene-og, "kept in
by the sea," what nonsense ! you may
rely on it, the men of ancient days
did not apply names to places without
good and solid reasons, according to
Sammes, the world should be called
Mene-og
Camden proceeds, " The shore shooting in again from this
Meneg, makes a bay full of winding Creeks receiving the
little river Vale, upon which somewhat inward flourished an
old town called Vol-uba, by Ptolemy ; but it has long since
either lost its being or name, which yet does still in some mea-
sure remain in Volemouth or Falmouth : at the very entrance

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there is an high uneven rock, called by the inhabitants Crage,
and each side of it is fortified with its castle, that on the east
called St. Maudits, on the west Pen-dinas ; but the haven
itself is called by Ptolemy, Cenionis ostium, without all dis-
pute from the British Geneu, signifying a mouth and an en-
trance, which Tre-genie, a town hard by confirms, as much as
one should say, " A little town at the mouth ;" on which last
Gibson thus remarks, in the interpretation by Camden of
Tregony " A little town at the mouth ;" there is no occasion
for the diminutive, which is the rather probable, because ac-
cording to Sammes, Tira, and by contraction Tra in the Phoe-
nician, is so far from signifying any inconsiderable place, that
it denotes " a fort or castle." Let me now explain these words
in their native tongue.

Vale Beal, pronounced Viol, " the mouth ;"

the water takes its name from the
Ostium
Vol-uba Beil-ub-e, pronounced Veil-ube, " the

point of the mouth." Volemouth and
Falmouth of the Sassons, being their
addition to the synonimous Phoenician
word Beal. Have not the Sassons
made the same havoc at Aber Moud-
wy, which they have changed to Bar-
mouth, and which no doubt some
future Sasson etymologist will derive
from Bar, to close, shut up, and
" Mouth ;" and should the case so
happen that the mouth of the river be
closed by an accumulation of sands,
which is more that probable, this ety-
mology will be confirmed by the evi-
dence of the fact.
Crage Coraig, " a large rock"

Pen-dinas Binn-d-inis, " The summit of the land

nearly or entirely encompassed by
water." The true Phoenician term for

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an island is Oilean, i. e. one distinct oil,
or isle ; and though Inis was also the
name of an island, it is often taken in
a larger sense, and applied to lands on
the margin of waters, in great part
begirt thereby
Tre-gonie Tir-cean-e, " it is the head of the

land ;" how it could be tortured to
mean " A little town at the mouth,"
would astonish, if every day's experi-
ence did not prove the ignorance of
man ; why, the place stands nearly at
the head of the water instead of the
mouth, and so far fiom Tira and its
contraction Tra, meaning a fort or
castle, it hath the much more compre-
hensive signification of land ; and here
let me notice once for all, that every
place in Dun-mia-nac, the first syllable
of which is Tre, signifies, if on the coast
Traigh, pronounced Tra, and if in
the interior Tir, the former being the
Phoenician for sea shore, covered over
at high water, visible on the ebb, as
Traighleigh, Tra-mor, &c. &c. the
latter " Land" as in Eri, Tir Conal,
Tir Eoghan, &c. &c.
Sal-tesse Salt-esse, " the highest point for ships."

Camden having ran along the southern coast, turns to the
northern shore of Cornwall, and notices the river
Al-an, alias Camb- Al-aman, and Cam Al-aman, pronoun-

alan, or Camel, ced Alaun, and Cam Al-aun, " the

from it winding great river," " the great crooked

channel river."

Leaving Camden, and following his commentator, let us
return to the Land's End, where on a httle island so much dis-

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tant from the land, that a boat with oars may pass between,
stood

Caren an Peale, Caren signifies " a rock/"' and Pele " a
commonly called spire." I trust I shall be able to give
" The armed a much more satisfactory solution of
knight," the name.

Caren an Peal-e Gorad an Beilte, *' the gii-ded knight."

Now first I take leave to assert that
Caren doth not signify a rock, the
Irish and Phoenician word for which
is Coraig, corrupted a little by the
Britons to Crage, as Camden hath
before said, nor doth Pele signify a
spire ; but if these two words did
mean rock and spire, I am at a loss to
discover how they could be hammered
into an armed knight. What is the
simple fact ? there is in a small island
nigh unto the Land's End a great rock,
which bore the resemblance of an
armed knight ; which rock from this
similitude was called by certain words
which are to describe an armed
knight, not a spired rock, and the
very words in the Phoenician lan-
guage, conveying the idea of the
armed knight, are Coraid an Beilte, of
which the British corruption is Caren
an Peale.
Still to attend the commentator, he saith, " Mr. Camden
mentions a tradition that the promontory stretched itself far-
ther towards the west, to which these limits may perliaps
contribute something of probability, that about the middle
way between Land's End and Scilly, there are rocks called in
Cornish,

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Lethas, by the Eng- Litha, stones
lish Seven Stones

And the Cornish call that place withiii
the stones
Tregva, i. e. a dwell- Traig-ba, " it was strand."
ing

Having noticed a sufficient number of promontories, lands,
and waters, on the coast, let me mention a few in the interior,
of which I will give the mere literal etymology.
Les-keard, Lios-ce-ard, " the fort on the high land"

Carac-on, Coraig-ong, " the fire rock"

Hur-les, Ur-las, " the illumination of fire"

Kil-mair Coil-mar, " the great wood.'"

In fine, in every part of the district of Breo-tain, occupied
by the Scythians of Phoenicia, Gallicia, and Biscay, in all
names a component part of which is the British " Pen," it is a
mutation of the Iberian or Phoenician " Binn," a summit ; the
British " Rhin" is the Iberian or Phoenician " Rinn," a cape
or promontory ; the British Crag is the Iberian or Phoenician
" Coraig," a rock, the words Tre and Tir being heretofore
observed upon, now let us pass to Devon, the other district of
Dunmianac, by the waters of
Ta-mar, Ta-moir, " it is a sea"

Deh-shire, so this dis- Dun, a "hill," " the land of hilh"
trict was called even
in the days of Cam-
den
Teave, Tarn, pronounced Tave, " still, quiet,"

a name given to this stream which
runs into the Ta-mar, here it is called
Teave, according to its correct I berian
pronunciation ; another river called by
the same name, for the same reason,
is called Thame by the Sassons, ac-
cording to the value of its letters in
the estimation of that people

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Dert,whicli Mr. Cam- Doita,
den says falls very
steep and strong,
flowing by dirty
places ! !

poured out with violence"

Ex-Cester,

Twy-ford-ton, now
'ri-ver-ton,which
Camden says had
its name from two
fords through the
Isc

Cathair-uisge, pronounced Caar-uisge,
" the city of the water." This city is
latinized into Ex-onia by the moderns,
it was called by the Romans Isca
Dunmoniorum, and Sassonized into
Ex-eter, the Phoenician and primitive
name of the place is Cathair-uisge.
literally " the city of the water,"
Cathair being the Scythian word for
a city, altered into Cai*, and Kir, Ker,
and a variety of similar contractions in
the nations of Asia, which originated
from the seat of the chief being in the
place ; and Uisge is the original word
for running water, altered by the
Romans to Osca and Isca, by the
Greeks to Iske, by the Germans to
Ax, Ex, Ox, Ux ; it may be thought
extraordinary that a river should be
called simply " water," but such was
a common practice with the Scythians,
when the water so named was the
greatest river in the country, it was
done par excellence, neither had this
place any other name but the city on
the water.

Do-foras-dun, is in the Phoeniciaa
tongue what the Sassons call Two-
fords-town

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Pol-ti-more, Bol-ti-mor, " the house of the great

hole." This is the name of a placenigh
whereunto the river Columb runs into
the Isc, whereby was formed a great
hole in the earth beneath, the spot
was called Bol-mor, which gives its
name to the adjoining land, whereon
a house being built, it had the name
in the Phoenician language of Bol-
ti-mor

Sea-ton, Moir-i-dun, " the hill of defence on the

sea."" On this original word " Dun,"
the Romans formed their Dun-um,
the Germanni converted into their
" Town.'" Standing alone, Dun means
an ascent, but when it is part of a
compound, it signifies generally a
place of defence ; sea town is a precise
translation from the original Phoeni-
cian words into the Sasson or EngUsh
language

Ax-minster, iJisge, here we have the original Uisge

Ax-mouth, converted into the Sasson Ax, with

the additions of their Minster and
Mouth, the river not named, though
if it had a specification, it is now lost,
supplied by that of Otterwy, a com-
pound of the Sasson Otter, and the
British Wy, a river
Having arrived at the utmost limit of Dun-mianac, eastward

on the ocean, let us attend Camden on the north, the first

place 1 shall notice is

Taw, Taoi, " winding," from which course the

river had its name

Ken-uith, Can-iath, " the head of the land ;" tlie

name of an high land on the Severn,

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where a castle was built in ancient
days, called Cais-lean, Cean-iath
Taking leave of Camden, I shall now turn to his more in-
structive annotator.

Bren-toiT,anamesig- Certainly the place is high and rocky,
nifying, saith Gib- and it is a famous sea mark, but the
son, "a high rocky name Breo-an-ter, from pron. Brontor,
plain;" and adds, signifies, " the illuminated tower," and
it is a famous sea denotes that the Breo, as explained,
mark. here confined in a tower.

Avon A man, "a river," but the word is

spelled Aune, (the modern pronuncia-
tion of the word) in Mordeus's chart,
Aman is the primitive word on which
the Romans formed their Amn-is, and
though we of Eri say Aune, it ought
by orthography to be pronounced
Avon-as by the Britons at this day,
here too we have a river without a spe-
cific name, which hath been lost, if
ever applied.
Rin-more Rinn-mor, " the great cape or pro-

montory,"
Clyst, Cliste, *' swift" the name of a river of

uncommon rapidity.
Such are the most ancient names in Breotan or Dun-mianac,
of which I have set before you those used in Camden's time,
with his suppositions, and also the original words in the
Phoenician lap^^uage, in the dialect of Eri at this day, with the
Etymology ti lereof in the English language, and now, with your
leave, I will conduct you to the north of the Severn, to the land
of the Silures, whose Scythian origin I mean to demonstrate by
language also.

The Phoenicians and Iber-ians having in process of time
filled Dun-mianac, a tribe moved after the manner of their
race, and emigrating to the other side of the Severn sea, seated
themselves amongst the aborigines of that quarter, and

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established their influence in the district, called from them the

land of the Silures, comprehending the present Glamorgan,

Monmouth, Brecon, Hereford, and Radnor, of which in their

order, but first of the tribe

Silures Sul-ur-eis, " the tribe of the sun and fire."

Whether this tribe had, or had not
taken their departure from their breth-
ren of Dun-mianac, before the intro-
duction of what is called Druid-ism, it
is clear the Sal-ur-eis neither embraced
the ancient religion of the Britons,
nor adopted Druidism, a novel fancy
of the Phoenicians, and as proof of
their rejection of the one and the
other, they called themselves by a
specific name, importing their ad-
herence to tlie primitive ideas of their
forefathers, as we learn from Tacitus,
who says, " the soldiers of the Ordo-
vices, and of the Silures, inflamed
with the speeches of Caractacus, bound
themselves by vows after their res-
pective religions, that neither wounds
nor weapons should make them yield."
The Ordovices were aborgines and
Druids, the Sul-ur-eis were Scythian
emigrants and fire worshippers.

Gwlad-mor-gan, of Glas-moir-cean, " the head of the green
the Britons. sea." You will take notice that the lands

Gla-mor-gan, of the of the Sul-ur-eis, extended on the waters
Sassons. of the Severn from the entrance therein

of the Wye eastward, to the mouth of
the Taoi west, therefore was the name
of Glas— moir-cean applied from the
point whereat their territory com-
menced eastward, should it be criti-
cally ol^ected, that the term Glas is

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an unnecessary expletive, I reply that
in this particular instance, the word
hath been added with propriety, and
is a proof of the extreme precision of
these ancients in the names they at-
tached to places, here they meant to
distinguish the waters they considered
sea, from the waters of the great river
Severn, which are uncommonly yel-
low, of which hue, even what may be
called sea, doth in some measure par-
take ; I am not to account for the
humours of men, I have but to inform
you that the words Glas-moir-cean
are words of the Phoenician and Ib-er-
ian language, the translation of which
into the language of the Sassons, is,
** the head of the green sea," and you
will see by consulting the chart, and
making yourself acquainted with the
nature of tlwse waters that the term
is accurately descriptive of the object.
Having explained the signification of the name of this
Scythian Iber-ian tribe, and of the great water by which they
entered this land from Dun mianac, I purpose to point out
the very spot whereat they did debark, and their route, giving
all the names in their present mutilated form, which I will
restore to their original shape.

There is a small river south west of the Wye, called
Thrgoye, at the debouche of which into Severn is port
Skeweth, close to which is Caer-went, the district in which
these places are situated being now called Calde Cott; moving
west you meet the water of Uske, on which stands Caer-leion ;
proceeding in the same direction, you come to the river
Rhymny, then to the Tafte, issuing out of Monuch-denny,
emptying its waters into Severn at Traeth Tav, having on
its banks the places Caer-dyv andXlan-dav; south on Severn

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is Penwarth, in Denis Powis ; following the coast you come to
Dun-rauen, Ken-foag, and My-margan, beyond which are the
waters of Auon, Cled-augh, Dul-iske, and Tawye, south of
which is the Peninsula of Gowre, on the cast whereof is another
Pennarth, west of Gowre is the river Burra, beyond which is
the water of Gwen-drath-Vaure, taking its rise in a hill called
Karreg, and running into the sea at Calde-cott point, westward
of which is Towye, issuing out of Llyn Gonon, from whence
it winds its way to Severn, the western limit of the lands of
the Sul-ur-eis ; besides which, there are monuments of antiquity
in the quarter of which I am now treating, that is the present
Monmouth and Glamorgan, called Gy ve-lach, Karn Lhechart,
Krom-lacheu, of all which in their order.
Port Skeweth Bort Sciot, " the port or haven of the

Sciot," the original name by which
the Gaal of Sciot of Ib-er called them-
selves ; the Skuthai of the Greeks, Scy-
thae and Scoti of the Romans, Scut-
ten of the Germanni, Skuit-Skit of
Anglo-Sassons, by which last Maria-
li\is calls this very place from them.
Here it was that Gaal or tribe of Sciot
of Iber, who emigrated from Gaelag,
the present Cantabria in Spain to
Dun-mianac or Breo-tan, and from
thence across the waters of Severne,
first touched the soil of the territory cal-
led from them the land of the Sil-ur-eis.
Caer-gwent Cathair, " the chief seat." Gwent is

British, the original Scythian word,
which literally signifies, " the seat or
chair of the chief," came to be applied
to a city in the same manner as, Bri-
an amongst the Thracians, from the
mount, and Asti amongst the Greeks
from their dwelling nigh unto the Bri
or mount, came to signify a city also.

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ccexHi

Cald^-cott

Uske

Caer Lheion

Tliis place was the first capitol, if I
may so call the scite of the tents of
the chief of this Sciot tribe, the Venta
Silurum of the Romans, from whence
they spread themselves east to Wye,
beyond which were the native Dobuni.
West to the water of Towye, beyond
which were the aboriginal Dimetae,
and north to the lands of the native
Ordovices

Cald-i-sciot, " the inclosure of the Sciot,"
hemmed in by the Glas-moir-cean, the
Wye, the uisge, and by exceeding
high lands on the north

Uisge, " the water," so called empha-
tically, par excellence, in like man-
ner as in Dun-mianac, as Duor, the
water, and Amhan, the river, Scythian
words, and as Gwy, the British word
for river.

Cathair Leigean, pron. Lean, "the city
of learning." This place was originally
called, " Cathair Uisge," the city on
the Uisge or water, the Isca Silurum
of the Romans, and supposed to derive
the addition of Leigean from the cir-
cumstance of the Legio Secunda A u-
gusta being stationed here. That the
word Lheion of the Britons, Leigean
of the Iberians, may have been formed
on the Roman Legio, I cannot deny,
at the same time, the term in its true
form denotes instruction, learning, &c.
accurately applicable to the place, as
appears from Gerald Barry, latinized
to Giraldus Combrensis, who informs
us, "that very eminent men were

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brought up and taught here, and that
Amphibalus, the teacher of Alban, who
sincerely instructed him in the faith,
was born here ;" be this as it may, the
name of this place is Cathair, and the
name of the river is Uisge.
Though the name of Glas-moir-cean liad in the first instance
been given to the salt water of Severn from the entrance
therein of ^\ye, it came in after time to be applied to the dis-
trict of land, from the water of

Rhymny Rannwye, " the water of division," the

word Rhymny is a compound of the
Iberian Ranu, " division,''' and the
British Wye, corrupted as you see,
the meaning of the name being evident
from the fact it denotes, this never
being the boundary between the two
districts of Monmouth and Glamorgan
Taffe Dobh, pron. Dhove, " the swelling

flood."
It may be imagined that Taffe was a
corruption of Tamh, pron. Thave, as
the Teave in Dun-mianac, or the
Thame on the land of the Dobuni, at
this day Oxfordshire, where it is
called as the letters denote, according
to the manner of the language of the
Sassons ; but this is not the name of
this river, for Tamh, means " quiet
still," nor can it be from Taoi, wind-
ing, this stream not having a winding
course. Nor yet can it be a mutation
from Dubh, pron. Duv, " black," this
water being bright and sparkling, it
can therefore be a corruption of Dobh
only, an epithet particulai-ly appU-
cable to this river, which swells and
overflows all its neighbour lands, sud-

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Traeth-Tav,
Caer-dyv,

Llan-dyv,

denly and exceedingly, as 1 have often
witnessed
MonucliKtenny, Mianac Dun-e, " it is a hill of metal,"

here we have the same name as the
ancestors of this tribe gave to the
country of their first occupation in
Breo-tan, for the same reason, proof
that this hill had in ancient days been
explored for metal, with which it is
at this day known to abound
Traigh Dobh, " the strand of Dobh'*
Cathair Dobh, " the chief seat or city

of Dobh"
Lann-dobh, " the church on Dobh,"
this word Lann is Iberian for a
*' pcnn," " fold," and such like, and
being applied to the enclosures of
cemetries, it came to signify a temple,
chapel, church, to which sense it hath
long since by the Britons been con-
fined
Binn-ard, " the high summit"
Inis Powis, " the island Powis," a com-
pound of the Iberian Inis and Powis,
of what language I know not
Dun-r-amhan, pronounced Dunravan,
" the high defence on the river" the
place is now called Dunraven, it looks
over the Severn, (which here is called
" Amhan," the river,) and all the
plains in every other direction, the
word from Camden is spelled as we of
Eri now call a river, " Aun"
Ken-foag, Cean-foac, " look out head"

My-margan, Mionn-raoir-cean, " the head of the

mount of the sea." On surveying the
country, and duly •considering the

Pennarth,
Denis-Powis,

Dun-rauen,

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ancient language, in my judgment
Cean Foac and Mionn-moir-cean mean
one and the same thing, Mion-moir-
cean is the Cean Foac, there being no
land on the water of an altitude suffi-
cient to warrant the epithet Cean Foac,
but which is accuratey descriptive in
Mionn Moir

Amhan, pronounced Aun and A van,
" the river," the particular name, if
ever it had. one, lost

Clodach, " dirty, slimy"

Dubh-uisge, " the black water"

Taoi, " winding"

Geamhar-i, pronounced Gauri, " a land
of corn," " fit for tillage"

Borra, " rough, impetuous"

Gwen-duor-ath-moir, " the white water
of the great ford," the word is com-
pounded of the British Gwen, white,
and the Iberian Duor-ath-mor, which
signifies as above

Coraig, " rocky," very rough with stones.

Before explained, the explanation proved
to be correct, the Iberian word Caldi
Sciot, or Cal-i-Sciot, meaning the en-
closure, the shutting in of the Sciot,
and here we have the same term ap-
plied at each termination of the limit
of this Gaal, or tribe of Sciot
Taoi, " winding"

Linn-cean-amhan, pronounced Caunaun,

" the pool river head," the lake

whence Towye issues.

This river was the western barrier of this nation, within

which district in these parts are Gy ve-lach, of which Gibson

or Camden saith, " within the parish of Llan-gyve-lach, I

Cle-daugh,
Dulishe,
Tawye,
Gowre,

Burra,
Gwen-drath-vaure,

Karreg,
Cali-cott,

Tovv^ye,
Llyn-gonon,

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observed a monument which lately stood in the midst of a
Kern, or heap of stones, beneath are two feet, rude and ill
proportioned, from which monument this parish had its name of
Gy ve-lach, Gabh-leac, " the great, flat, forked stone."

" Not far from whence,"' continued Gibson, " in the same
parish, is a monument that gives denomination to the mountain
on which it stands, in a circle of rude stones, called
Karn I^hechart, Cam Leicard, " the Carn of the great

flat, high stones," from which you are
not to presume that the Carn was
meant by Leicard ; the Cam, or heap
of small stones was a beacon, or fire
light, and Leicard, high stones, nigh
the Carn, being the monument."
Gibson makes mention also of a Krom-lecheu, ^vhich he de-
rives from the British word Krom, crooked, or inclining, and
Lhech, a large flat stone.

Krom-lechen, Crom-leac-in, " a large flat stone in an

inclined position," Crooked and in-
clining are very different terms. Cam
is crooked, Crom is inclining, these
Crom-leac are numerous in Eri.
The origin of these words being manifested, let me conduct
you northward, by the route these Scythians moved to the
lands now called Hereford, wherein I shall notice some memo-
rable places of antiquity, the names of which I will explain to
you, for which purpose I will follow Camden and Gibson, who
have attempted to illustrate appellation by a language, which
in their total ignorance, they have ventured to pronounce
British ; though Edward Lhwyd could, and I make no doubt
did inform the latter person better, though he hath not pro
fited by the light of that ingenuous ancient Briton, Camden
saith the territory was called in the most ancient days
Erei-nuc, Eirinig, "Erians, Iberians, people of Er."

The word denotes a nation in a per-
sonal, not a local sense, whilst the

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name demonstrates their origin, of the
Gael of Sciot of Ib-er
Ari-cou-ium, Eiri-cean, " the head of Er," that is

"the chief seat of the tribe" of Eirinig
Hereford, Eiri-foras, " the passage of the Erians,"

this word Foras is Iberian for a pas-
sage over and through water.
Camden saith, " how far the httle tract Ar-cen-feld reached
I know not, but the affinity between these names Ereinuc, Ar-
cen-feld, the town Ari-con-ium, mentioned by Antonine in
these parts, and Hare-ford, or Hereford, the present metro-
polis of this shire, have by little and little, induced me to this
opinion, that they are every one derived from Ari-con-ium,
and yet I do not believe that Ari-con-ium and Hereford were
the same." On which Gibson observes, " a little lower stands
Hereford, on which name our author would find some remains
of the old Ari-con-ium, Avhereas it is of pure Saxon origin,
implying no more than " a ford of the army," which inter-
pretation doth also suit the situation of the place exceeding
well, the Severn being for many hundreds of years the frontier
between the two nations always at war."

To which observations of Camden and Gibson I reply, that
in every one of these names, the radix is Er, the appellation
of the nation, to which this tribe belonged in Iber under
Caucasus, Cean Iber in Gaelag, and in Eri , and though Cam-
den discovered a similitude, he could not account therefor,
whilst Gibson seems to think that antiquity and the fights of
the Sassons and Welsh in the 11th and 12th centuries are
synonimous ; he was right in saying that the place was a pas-
sage, and for an army too, but not in the sense he imagined,
the place had its name of high antiquity, from being nigh unto
the spot where the tribe of Er passed from the south, when
they seated themselves at Eri-cean, the Roman Ari-con-ium,
the names of all these places bearing much more deep, legible,
and expressive characters of the antique, than a people so very
lately emerged from a state of piracy, ignorance, and bar-
barism, as the Sassons are capable of appreciating ; a people

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moreover, whose language hath not the most remote affinity
to the Scythian tongue.

Camden speaks of the rivers Wye, Lug, and Mun-ow, which
last he says rises in the Hatterell hills, which shooting up
aloft, look as it were like a chair, and for that reason are called
** Mynydh Kuder," on which Gibson speaks thus, " the
learned Doctor Davies supposes these hills not to have been so
called, from their resemblance to a Kadair, or chair, but be-
cause they have been either fortified places, or were looked
upon as naturally impregnable, by such as first imposed those
names on them, for the British Kader, as well as the Irish
Kathair, signifying anciently a "fort, or bulwark," whence
probably the modern word Kaer, of the same signification,
might be corrupted."

Let me now give you the signification of the names of all
these places in the language of those by whom they were im-
posed, first noticing that Gwy, or Wye, is British for a river.

Lug

Mun-ou

Hatterell
Mynydh Kader

Lugha, " the lesser," that is the lesser
water in comparison with the Wye
and Minwye

Min-wye, " the smooth gentle river,"
from Min, Iberian for smooth, &c.
and Wye, British for river

Ei4;ralt, " the wilderness of heights"

Min-wye Ceidard, " the high mountain
on whose summit is a plain, near
Min-wye." It was not to the mass of
mountains of this wilderness that this
name was attached, but to a particular
height. You have heard the supposi-
tion of the learned Doctor Davies,
and the probable conjecture of Doctor
Gibson, but neither is correct ; Cei-
dard and Cathair are as different as
two things can be, the former being
the word in the Iberian tongue for
that particular elevation, the summit

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whereof is flat, distinguished from
Binn, MuUach, and such like ; the
latter, as before explained, implying
the place of abode of the chief, with-
out reference to a fort, or being im-
pregnable, of which the British Caer
is a contraction, agreeing precisely
with the Iberian pronunciation of the
word Cathair.
In this district Camden mentions Castle-
hean, Al terynis, the river Dore, Lhan-
lieni, Credun, and Kenchester; of
these in order

Castle-hean Ceis-lean-Sean, " old castle ;" so saith

Camden

Alt-er-ynis Alt-air-inis, " the stately edifice on the

island," of which Camden says, " sur-
rounded with water, as it were an is-
land in a river, a famous seat in for-
mer ages"
Duor, " the water"

Lann-olain, " a store for wool," the wool
of which neighbourhood, saith Cam-
den, is by all Europe accounted the
best, excepting that of Apuleia and
Tarentum
Credann, " a hill within which is ore'*
Cean Chester, " the head camp," com-
pounded of the Iberian Cean, and
Chester, a corruption of the Roman
Castrum, a camp.
From Hereford, on passing to Brecknock, we find mention

made of the following places, Cantre Bychan, Kader Arthur,

Talgarth, and Lyn Savadhan.

Bry-chein-og Bri-cine-ag, " the occupation, of the

tribe of the hills"

Dore

Lhan-lieni,nowLeo
minster

Credun
Ken Chester

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Cantre Bychan
Kader Arthur

Talgarth
Lhyn Savadhan

From hence let
days was called
Maes-y-ved

Ceantur Beagan, •' the very little head
land"

Cathair Arthur, " Arthur's chair," so
Gerald Barry translates the word. If
so, it would be Cathair, of which the
British corruption is Caer ; but if the
mountain is Kedar, the British cor-
ruption of the Iberian Ceidard, it
would not signify a chair, but a high
hill, with a flat summit; and that this
is the most correct, would appear
from Barry's description, that " a
fountain springs on the very top of
this hill, affording trout, though no
water runs out of it." Yet Barry
hath rendered the word chair, ig-
norantly confounding Ceidard with
Cathair

Tullac-ard, " a country abounding witn
hills"

Linn Sabh-ad-aman, pron. Savadaun.
This is a very curious term, not easily
translated, the meaning of it is, that
the Linn, or pool, was a distinct water,
barred and shut in as it were, and it
seems from the following words ot
Camden, that from this idea the lake
had its name : " Lheweni, a small
river, having entered this lake, still
retains its own colour, and as it were,
disdaining a mixture, is thought to
carry out no more, nor other water
than what it brought in."
us proceed to Radnor, which in ancient

Magh-biad,

X

the plain of plenty'

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Maes-y-ved-hean, Magh-biad-sean, " the old plain of

Old Radnor plenty"

Pen-craig Binn Craig, " the rocky summit."

Having explained the signification of these names of places
on the lands of the Sul-ur-eis, by their own language, before
we visit the country of the Bri-gan-tcs, let me pay a tribute
of respect to the illustrious chief of the Sul-ur-eis, who would
have saved his nation from the degradation and misery of a
foreign yoke, if valour alone could have achieved it. Hail
brave

Caractacus Cath-reacteac-eis, " the leader and direc-

tor of the host in battle." His name
will endure thousands of ages after
any trace of millions of tyrants and
myriads of slaves shall be recognized,
save in the havoc they have made,
during their pernicious abode on the
surface of the earth. Illustrious chief,
thou wilt be immortal.
Now to the Brigantes, whom I cannot introduce more aptly
than by the words of Camden, who says,

" When Florianus del Campo, out of a piece of vanity,
carried the Bri-gan-tes out of Spain into Ireland, and from
thence into Bri-tain, without any manner of grounds, but that
he found the city Bri-gan-tia in Spain, 1 am afraid he carried
himself from the truth ; for if it may not be allowed that our
Bri-gan-tes, and those in Ireland, had the same name on the
same account, I had rather with my learned friend Mr. Thos.
Savil, conjecture that some of our Bri-gan-tes, with others of
the British nations, retired into Ireland, upon the coming over
of the Romans."

To which I reply, that Florianus del Campo, Savil, and
Camden, were uttering but mere conjectures, and though cor-
rect in connecting this tribe with the Clandha Breo-ccean in
Eri, who were the brethren of these Brigantes, they were
altogether ignorant of the only means, whereby to demonstrate

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the small particle of truth that they perchance advanced. But
I who can oppose actual knowledge to their suppositions, will
in a few words disclose to you the origin and etymology of
the specific denomination of this tribe.

Bri-gan-tes Breo ccean-teis, pron. Bro-gan-tes, " the

tribe of Breo-ccean," which Breo-
ccean were the head lands of Gaelag,
before explained ; they were that clan
of the Gaal of Sciot of Ib-er that
dwelled about Ard-Iber, Fir-ol, Co-
ruuna, Cape Ortegal, &c. of whom
you will have a detailed account in
the chronicles of Gael-ag.
When Florianus carried Brigantes odt of Spain into Ireland,
he did not carry himself from the truth, though lie erred in
bringing them from thence into Britain, and both the learned
Camden, and his learned friend Saville, were wrong in their
conjectures in fancying that the Brigantes of Britain retired
into Ireland upon the Roman invasion. The Chronicles of
Eri will instruct you that we of Eri were in fact Brigantes, in
a confined sense, but as the reigning chief, princes, and nobles
emigrated to Eri, they retained the more ancient, and compre-
hensive name of Sciot of Iber, or Er, which distinctions you
have seen these tribes also preserved in Britain.

The Chronicles of Eri will inform you that this tribe of
Brigantes were seated on the rivers Mersey and Irwell, in the
reign of Fionn, 503 years before Christ, how much earlier is
not set forth ; and that these Brigantes were known to the
Romans to be of Scythian origin, and that they did discrimi-
nate between them and the aborigines, whom they called Bri-
tanni, I shall produce the evidence of Seneca, in his satire
on the death of Claudius, wherein he says,
" Ille Britannos ultra noti littora ponti,
" Et coeruleos Scoto- Brigantes dare Romuleis."
Let us now examine this passage critically, for which pur-
pose it is necessary first to state that diiFerent readings are
given thereof, some insisting that it should run thus :

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— — " Et cceruleos, Scuto Brigantes."
Others again,

Scuta Brigantes.

Now whether the word is Scuta, Scuto, or Scoto, it is clear
it doth not belong to. Cceruleos, and being an epithet apphed
to Brigantes, even if it was Scuta, or Scuto, this fact would
prove difference of origin pointedly, by the difference of the
arms of the warriors of the two nations ; but as neither Scuta
nor Scuto are in agreement with Brigantes, it cannot be ima-
gined that Seneca wrote so ungrammatically, neither was such
an epithet ever joined to a nation, whilst it was usual and per-
fectly correct so to express the origin of a people. And to
put the matter beyond all question, that Seneca knew the
Britanni and Brigantes were distinct people, he says, Britta-
nos, et Brigantes, to which I may add, if necessary, that the
epithet Cceruleos was peculiarly applicable to the Scythians,
green being the colour of the habit of their warriors, as at
this day in Eri.

The Breo-ccean-teis, corrupted by the Romans to Bri-gan-
tes, having according to the chronicles of Eri, broke forth of
the caverns of the earth from Dun-maniac, to escape from the
rigour of the Phoenicians, who had violated the covenant, and
steering north entered the waters of the Mersey, and came to
the land at the precise point of

Pen-sketh Binn Sciot, " the cape of the Gaal of

Sciot," the grand name of the Scythian
race, as Bort Skeweth the corruption
of Sciot, in the land of the Sul-ur-eis,
a distinction never lost sight of, here
the Breo-ccean-teis landed from the
water of
Mersey Mir-se, " it is the partition." This land

divided the land of the Brigantes, from
the nations of the aboriginal Coritani
and Cornavii ; it may be fancied that
the word hath reference to Moir, as
is proved by its adjunct sey, the sea,

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but it is not so. In its course it re-
ceives the water of

Ir-well Er-Bal " the place of Er," the name

denotes that on the banks of this river
this tribe of Er first established them-
selves. It is of the same signification
as the rivers Ib-er in Spain, and in
Eri, the former now called Eb-ro, the
latter Cenmare, lb and Bal having
the same meaning, mention is made
in the chronicles of Eri of this parti-
cular district, as the land of the Bri-
gantes

Lever-pool Lear Beal, " the mouth of the haven"

These ancient names being explained, let us proceed north-

ward to

Dar-by Dair, " Oak," by, is Sasson ; this

district of Lancaster has been even to
my time remarkable for Oaks

Du-Glass Du-glas, " the becoming, the seemly

green," described by Camden, " a
small brook, running with an easy and
still stream,"" which conveys a good
idea of the word Du.
The Du-glass empties itself into the
Estuary, called by Ptolemy,

Bellisama Beol-ess-aman-e, pronounced Violesh-

aune, the literal meaning of which is,
that the " mouth of the river only is
for ships,"" that is, that the rivers
which form the haven are not naviga-
ble.
North of this estuary, is a considerable

water called,
Mar-tain Moir, " a water like the sea."

Marton Mere

Camden netices,
Pen-i-gent

Binn-geint, " the wedge like summit"

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Pen-die Binn-dal, " the summit of the district"

Ingle-burrow Ingilt, " the mountain fit for grazing

cattle,"" burrow is a Saxon addition
Derwent Duor, " the water," went is British

Loncaster Lonn, " strong and fretful,*" caster is a

corruption of the Roman Castrum.

The place is called from the river.
Camden supposes this place was the Caer Werid, which he
translates *' green city," in which he is mistaken for the thou-
sandth time, Caer- Werid being about Green-haugh on the
Werid or Wier, which rises in Werid or Wiers-dal, north of
which is a rocky place called.

Wulf Craior

Wulf,

Duddon

Carthmell
Gleston

Craig, "a rocky rugged place,

I know not
Cean, " the head," this river is also
called the Kent and Kennet, which
last would be " the river at the head
of the land," corruption of Cean-iath
Dod-aman, pronounced Dudaun, '• a
river of either land,"" it is a boundary
between the tribes of Lancaster and
Cumar
Cathar Beol, " The town at the mouth"
Glasdun, " the green hill ;" This, saith
Gibson, "is seated in a fertile vale
amongst rich meadows," of course
green.
We will now move eastward into York, of the names of
various places in which district I will shew the origin, and first
of the ancient name of the city, and the river on which it
stands.

Cathair Ib-erig, " the city of the Ibe-
rians." This city is of ancient days,
it is called by Tacitus Civitas Brigan-
tium, and was strongly garrisoned by
the Romans ; here died Severus, and
Constantius Chlorus, and here was

Caer Eb-rauce, Ca-
er Effroc, Eofor
ric, I bor, now
York

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collected the chiefest force of the
Roman power, to curb the brave Bri-
gantes, and to repress the invasions of
the Caledonians and the Scots, though
it was called by the Sassons Eofor-ric
and York ; the name of Ebor, a cor-
ruption of Ib-er, is yet not obsolete ;
this city is situated on a river of many
names, sometimes called Ouse, some-
times Is, and Ure, to expl^n which,
and put all in order, few words will
suffice

Ouse Uisge, water

Is Uisge, water, from which you are to un-

derstand that the city was Ib-er, and
Gather Ibeir, that is, the place or seat
of Er, and the river was Uisg, cor-
rupted to Ouse and Is ; Ur was a
place on the river where was a holy
fire, as Urat on Arduisg, in Dacia,
and that Cathair Ib-er-ig, is the city
or chief seat of the Iber-ians, Ib-er-ig
being the Scythian, Phoenician and
Iberian, for Iber-ians.
The first place mentioned by Camden is Humber, a modern

name, the ancient one being

Abus Aibeis, " an estuary," literally it means

a great profundity covered with water,
which is not river, nor yet sea, in fine,
an estuary

Tees' Taoi, winding

Derwent Duor, water, went, is British, as in Lan-

caster

Don-Caster, olini Cathair Dana, '•' the city of the impetu-
Caer Daun ous river," it hath the same significa-

tion as Dau-ube, so called by the
Scythian Goths and Thracians

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Caer Conan Cathair Goanaman, pron. Gonaun, " the

city on the river"

Cal-der Cal-duor, " the water that encloses, shuts

in," this river divided the Brigantes
of Lancaster and York

Craven Craoibin, pronounced Cravin, *' a wild

rough land, covered with low growing
brambles." Camden conjectured the
word was derived from Craig, a rock,
his conjectures are always erroneous,
and he could but conjecture, being
ignorant of the ancient language

Wharf Garbh, pronounced Gauriv, " rough or

boisterous"

Chevin Ce-binn, " the summit of the land,"

Camden calls it a huge craggy clifp

Swale Suit, •'jumping.''"' Camden says this

river was called Swale, from its leap-
ing, and hurry of waters, but he was
ignorant of the origin of the word

Flamborough head Breo-cean, the Sasson name, almost a
translation of the Scythian word,
which is " flame head."
these places in York being explained, let

The names of all
us pass to Durham.
Dun-holm
Deiri

Gabrosentum of the
Romans, Gaets-
head, of the Sas-
sons, Gabro.cen,
the ancient name

Dun, a fortress

Dair, oaks. This town is situated on
an eminence, nigh unto which is a
place called in Camden's time. Old
Dar, from which it is observable, that
all these names have reference to an
elivated situation, and to oaks

Gabair Cean, '* goat's head," which
Camden derives from " Gaffr," British
for goat, and hen, in composition for
pen, which signifies " head," and thus
makes Gaffr-hen of a place he calls

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Gabro-cen, into such absurdities do
conjectures without knowledge, lead
men, the letter s in Gabro-sentum,
should be c, thus Gabrocen-tum, when
by cutting off the Latin neuter termi-
nation, you have the Iberian word
perfect, translated into the Sasson
gaets, or goat's head.
In Westmoreland I have but few places to notice, as

Aballaba, now Ap- An Bealachba, '* the good way or pas-
pleby sage."" In this district are Pen, Craig,

and Stanmor, where there are lead
mines, and which last place had its
name from tin being found there in
ancient days

Winander mere Minamanduor moir, pronounced Mi-

nanndur mer, " a plain of waters of
springs and rivers, as a sea."
From hence to Cumar, now^ called Cumberland.

Cumberland Cumar, " a land of uneven surface, of

hills and dales," of which Cumber is a
Sasson corruption with a Danish ter
mination Lond

Loder Laider, strong

Eimot Eim, quick

Copeland Ceab, " the head." Camden says, " it

had the name from its rearing up its
head with sharp mountains," or per-
haps, as Cop-per land !

Esk Uisge, " the water," by which this river

is called, for a considerable way till it
meets the tide, from whence it hath
the name of

Raven-glas Aman-glas, pronounced Avanglas, *' the

green river,*" precisely as the Ban-d-
aman, that is, Bandann in Eri, signi-

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fies <* the white river," or as Spencer
says, " the silver river," which carries
that name till it meets the tide, whence
it is called Glas-t-aman, " the green
river," till it reaches the harbour or
Cean-saile, " the head of the salt sea."
In the composition of Ravenglas, I
cannot conceive the motive for intro-
ducing the letter r, which hath no
meaning, Amanglas is precisely the
same word as Glas-t-aman, but here
the letter t is of value for Euphonia,
to which our ancestors paid such at-
tention, that this part of the Bandon
is called Glasteen, not Glastaun, nor
Glastavan
Hardknott Ard-cnoc, " a rugged height." Camden

calls this a very steep ragged moun-
tain
Skiddaw, Siceide-da, " it is a double mountain"

Mori-camb, Moir-cam, " the crooked sea," that is,

" shore"
Drumbough, Drom, " the back of a hill," bough is

Sasson

Pen-rith, Binn-ruad, " the red height," the earth

and stones in the neighbourhood are

of a reddish colour.

These places noticed, I come to the principal city of this

district, which I reserved for last, in order more fully to shew

the distinctiveness with which the people of ancient days named

villages and cities, as they did lands and waters ; but first I

will set down the words of Camden : " The Romans and

Britons called this city Lugu-ballum and Lugu-valUum, or

Lugu-balia; the Saxons, as Bede witnesses, Luel; Ptolemy, as

some think, Leucopibia ; Xennius, Caer Lualid ; the Sassons,

in Camden's time, Carlisle, for that Lugubalia and CarUsle are

the same is universally agreed upon by our historians ;" to

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which Gibson adds, Caer, in Welsh, signifies a city, and
Caer-luul, Luel, and Lugubal, as it was anciently writ, are the
very same with Caer-leil, or Luil, the present appellation, and
import as much as the town or city of Luul, Lual, or Lugu-
bal," what but ignorance in the extreme, and an idea that all
the world were as ignorant as themselves, could cause men to
plunge into such a depth of absurdity, from which I will
rescue this ancient seat of the Brigantes. Language attests
that the first town must have been originally Bailie, and was
not the same as the city now called Carlisle, and that the
former had the addition of Lugha, after the latter had been
founded, and had that addition to distinguish it therefrom,
for strictly and literally

Lugu-ballum, Val- Lugha Bailie, "the lessertown," of which

lum, and Ballia, the names on the other side are cor-

are ruptions, as

Carlisle is a corrup- Cathair Liaal, " the great city built

tion of with stone," Baile, a town, was the

rude work of the Brigantes, buUt of

mud, Cathair Liaal v^'as the work of

the Romans, and built of stone, and

when built, Lugha was added to the

Baile of the Brigantes, Lugha Baile,

the lesser town, to distinguish it from

Cathair Liaal, the great walled city,

the former composed of earth, the

latter of stone.

If I have noticed but a few places, it hath been done for the

sake of brevity, as well as with the view of not advancing one

step in controversy, many names being so distorted by the

Sassons, that it would be difficult to prevail on the world to

think, that the restoration of them to their ancient state was

their true form, besides, it is to be hoped, enough hath been

done to convince any reasonable mind, that the people by

whom these places were named, occupied the districts in ancient

days, it rests therefore with me to shew they were not of the

same race as the Britons, and that their language was the Ian-

CCCXXXll DEMONSTRATION.

guage of Phoenicia and of the Iberians, in the northern parts
of Spain, from whence these tribes emigrated to the south of
Britain, and from thence to this quarter, wherefrom I now will
move to Caladun, and take a rapid yet correct survey of that
famous land, renowned for men of valour in ancient and mo-
dern times, and in the present days ; on whom Roman disci-
pline made no impression, whom Roman arts of seduction
could ngt influence, against whom, after the failure of all their
attempts, the harnessed Romans had recourse to the expe-
diency of raising up a bulwark fortified, to protect themselves
from these intrepid naked warriors, and their undaunted allies,
the wily Scots from Eri, whose names were not liable to fear,
save the terror of losing their liberties and independence; but
before our departure, let me notice one female lost, as many
one before and since, by the all-powerful effect of unbridled
passion, the unfortunate inglorious

Cart-is- man-tua, Cathartig-isi-mein-tuatac, pronounced

Cart-isi-meen-tua, " she herself is in
quality of chief of the citizens," a title
she assumed upon the novel usurp-
ation of the sovereignty by a woman
Albion, Ailb-binn, "a confused heap of heights."

This name, 1 am of opinion, was applied exclusively to the
northern parts of the island, as Breo-tan was to the southern
extremity thereof, for the same reason that the forefathers of
the people, who imposed the name, called the country in the
neighbourhood of Ib-er beneath Caucasus, by the same name,
corrupted to Alban-ia, as also the district in Greece, Alba, and
the Ailpsin Italy ; for most assuredly none of these places de-
rive their name from the Greek Alphos, nor the Roman Albus,
white, any farther than the aptness of men to combine the
idea of snow, with very high mountains ; the Phoenician word
Ailb denoting a confused heap, without reference to height,
the additional word Binn, in this compound, being expressive
of altitude.

Caledonia, Cal-a-dun, "enclosed amongst hills,"

the Roman termination *' ia," cor-

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Argyle,
Dal-riada,

Galloway,

Mull of Galloway
Mull of Kaptyre

Carrick

Clyde
Ath-ol
Bradalban

Glas-coe
Loc-Loman

rupted from the primitive ' ' iath,"
country, being added, so ' Caldees in
Messipotamia, Cal-aoi-soir, vulgarly-
called Cajlosyria, Kal-u-don in Akaia,
and Cal-a-don amongst the Alps, the
people of which district have been
called by their Germannic neighbours
Wal-denses, lands, all called by the
same name, by the same race, for a
similar reason

Ard-gael, " the high lands of the Gaal,"
which Gaal were the Sciot

Dal rig-fada, " the portion of the long
armed," which long armed was Eocaid
Cairbre, called Rigfada, the leader of
the first colony from Eri to Ailb-binn,
or rather to Ard-gael in Ailb-binn ;
Ardgael being Dalrigfada

Gael-adh-beadh, pron. Gual-a-via, the
land, appointed for the sustenance of
the Gaal of Sciot, led by Feargus, the
son of Muin-ram-har

MuUac Gael-adh-biadh, " the head land
of Galloway."

Mullac cinn-tir. " the summit of the
head land."

1 Coraig, " a rock."

3 Craig, " rocky."

Cluid, " a corner."

Athol, " the great ford."
Breid Ailb-binn, " the ridge of Ailb^
binn"

Glas-ce, " the green or verdant land"

Loc Lo-aman, " A lake, the water of
which is the expansion of a river;" the
same name as Loc Leman, the lacus
Lemanus of the Romans, now the lake

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of Geneva, and Loc-Leiman in Cier-
rige in Eri, now called the lake of
Kilarney, all named by the same race
for the same reason
Ebrides I-buid-eis, " the isles of a mixed multi-

tude," a name that seems to have
been imposed after the invasion of
them by Norwegians.
That all the names of places in the western parts of Ailb-
binn are in the Scythian language, you will say is easily ac-
counted for, from the unquestionable fact of that part of the
country being occupied by the Iberian Scythians of Eri, since
258 since Christ, from the Mull of Galloway, at least as far
north as,

Ard-na-Murchen Aid-na-moir-ceann, " the height of the
head land on the sea.""
On the eastern shore I sliall now set down the names of some
few remarkable places.

The head of the wall of Antonius, was, according to Bede,
called by the Picti,

Pean-vahel, by the Cean-ail, " the head of the wall." Here
Welsh Pen-gaaul you have the British, Pictish, Scythian

and Germannic languages.
In the Frith of Forth is an island, presenting itself as a shield
against the rude strokes of the eastern wind, called
Inch-keth, Inis-scaith " the island that shields."

On which was a town in ancient times, called
Caer-Guide Cathair Gaota, "the windy city," cor-

rupted to Caer Guidi.
Farther north is the river
Tay Taoi, " winding." So meandering are

these waters, the stream is redundantly
called by those who do not understand
the meaning of the name, " The
winding Tay." The river Theyss or
Tobiske, the western limit of the
Daci, is of the same name, as in the

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Taw or Taj us in Portugal, and many-
rivers on the lands of the Sul-ur-eis,
and the Tees of the Brigantes, all
named by the same race from the
same cause
Dun-dee Dun-taoi, " tlie fortress of the Tay"

Ben-nevis Binncamhise, " his head is in the clouds

or rather the heavens."
Let us now return to the soutli, and visit Edinborough, but
previously to my explaining the ancient name of this city, I
shall transcribe so much from the learned Sasson antiquary
Camden, as will suffice to shew how very little he, or the ancients
knew of the name thereof, and the whimsical error into which
they have fallen, by reason of their ignorance.

" Something lower, near the Scottish Frith stands Edin-
borough, called by the Irish-Scots Dun-eaden, that is Eaden
town, which without doubt is the same that Ptolemy calls
Stratopedon-pteroton, that is, Castrum alatum, " the winged
castle," for Edin-borough, signifies the same as Winged Castle,
Adain in the British denoting a wing, and Eden-borough from
a word compounded of the British and Saxon tongue, is nothing
else but the winged borough ; from wings therefore we are to
derive its name, which if you think good, may be done either
from those squadrons of horse which are called wings, or else
from those wings, which the Greek architects call Pteromata,
that is as Vitruvius tells us, two walls so rising up in height,
that they bear a resemblance of wings.

Now permit me to explain the name of this place by its
native tongue,

Eden- Borough Dun Eaden, ^' the front of the fortress."

Two Scythian words descriptive of the
hill on which now stands the castle,
wherefrom the city took its name,
changed by the Sassons to Eden-
boiough. The Scythian Dun being the
German town, ton, or borough, the
Sassons then have left Eden almost in
its original form, and translated the

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Scythian Dun into their borough. But
you have observed, Camden, not con-
jecturing according to his usual man-
ner, pronounces with certainty that
the name is not Dun-Eaden, though
he has set it down as so called by the
Irish-Scots, but Dun Adain, from
Adain, which he says is British for a
wing, and therefore will have the
name derived from thence, on the
propriety of which he hath descanted
in terms conformable to his deficiency
of information on the subject, but he
had Ptolemy for his guide, and
Ptolemy was an ancient, and wrote
Greek, which were quite sufficient for
an English writer of the l5th century
to build upon, and Ptolemy has ren-
dered the name Stratopedon Pteroton,
latinized into Castrum Alatum, Sasso-
nized into winged castle, an error into
which a man at a great distance, and
unacquainted with the original lan-
guage might have, and hath fallen,
explauied by the fact that Eitean is
Iberian, for a wing expanded, and
thus by mistaking Eitean for Eaden,
a frontlet hath been converted into a
wing, and a name critically applicable
to the place forced to signify a term
of absolute nonsense, and one (most
unfortunately for conjecture,) that
can by no possibility be brought to
bear on the subject, the Eaden or
frontlet of the Dun not being of suffi-
cient extent and capacity to admit of
wings in Camden's military, architect-
ural or any sense ; the conceit savours

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too much of the ridiculous, to set
about offering any farther confutation.
I shall therefore confine myself to the
positive assertion that the most ancient
name known of this famous place is
Dun Eaden, the true and only significa-
tion of which is, " the front of the
fortress," and that the name is com-
pounded of two genuine original Scy-
thian, Phoenician, or Iberian words,
as explained.
Before I conclude with Caladun, I beg leave to quote a few
more words from Camden, which will tend to prove the value
of the Phoenician and Iberian dialect of the Scythian tongue,
and to shew that no man, but one acquainted therewith, can
explain the most ancient names of places in a great part of
Breo-tan and Ailb-binn, as Luyhd has declared.

Camden says, " Here I must not pass by in silence this in-
scription,

Apolloni

Granno

G Lusius

Sabinia

Nus

Proc

Aug

VSSLVra.'^

" Who this Apollo Grannus was, and whence he had this

denomination, no one antiquary, to the best of my knowledge,

has ever yet told us, but if I that am of the lowest form,

may give my sentiments, 1 should say that Apollo Grannus,

amongst the Romans, was the same as tlie Grecians Apollon

Akersekomes, that is, " having long locks," for Isidore calleth

the long hair of the Goths, Granni, but this may be looked

upon as foreign to my business."

The language whereby only, he or any man could explain
this inscription, was foreign to Camden, therefore to his busi-

y

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ness. I cannot suppose he ever enquired of any of the Gaal
of Sciot in Ailb-binn, for the meaning of the word Granno ;
had he taken that precaution, instead of consulting Isidore, 1
make no doubt of his having had a satisfactory solution there-
of, which is to be found in the following explanation :

Apollo was by the Romans (no matter whether correctly or
not) held in veneration for the Sun, which grand luminary
was by the Phoenicians, and Ib-er-ians, called Grian, the
God of their w^orship. Lusius was a Roman, and in fulfiUing
a vow he had made to this God, named Apollo, according to
the rite of his own religion, to which he added Grian, the
name of the same deity, in the language of the people of the
land, whereon he erected his memorial.

Apolloni Grian would have been the correct mode of inscri-
bing both words according to the orthography of Rome, as to
Apollo, and of Ailb-binn, as to Grian, but that would be a
favor not to be expected from the barbarous and desolating
Romans, who subjected every thing whereon they could set
their foot, lay their hand, fix their tooth, or turn their tongue,
and in this instance Grian hath been forced to assume a Roman
form in obedience to Apolloni, and to appear on the marble of
G. Lusius Sabinia, in the foreign shape of Granno.

The undoubted ignorance of the topographer Camden, and
of all his authorities being manifested, the analysis, and lite-
ral translation into the Sasson tongue, of as many of the most
ancient names of places in Breo-tan, and Ailb-binn, as suffice
for every purpose, being set before you, with the exception of
the words Kumero and Kimraeg, reserved for the conclusion
of this section, it becomes necessary to refer to the evidence of
Edward Luhyd, before stated, which I shall now abridge, in
order to place his scheme, and my observations thereon, closer
to each other, that you may have both more immediately in
view.

You have heard him deliver his opinion, " That a colony
he hath been piea-ed to called Guydhelians, emigrated to Bri-
tain from Gaul ;

" That they were the earliest possessors of Britain, which

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they inhabited for some time, till another colony IVoni Gaul
also, arrived in this island, and drove them westward to Le-
land ;

" That besides this colony of British-Irish, alias Guydhe-
lians, so driven by the ancestors of the present ancient Britons
or Welsh, to Ireland, another colony called Scots, emigrated
from Spain to Ireland, which island was co-inhabited by these
two nations, to wit, Guydhelians from Gaul, and. Scots from
Spain."

For which idea he ingenuously acknowledges he hath no
written authority, but founds his opinion on two facts.

1st. That a very great part of the British language, that
is the Welsh, its genius and nature are agreeable to the Irish
language, and that, as by collating the languages, he found
one part of the Irish reconcileable to the Welsh, so by a
diligent perusal of the New Testament, and manuscript papers
written in the language of the Cantabrians, he had satisfactory
knowledge as to the affinity of the other part of the Irish witli
the old Spanish. So far therefore as the Irish language agrees
either with the Welsh, or the other Britons, the words are
GuydheUan, and for the rest, they must be also either Guyd-
helian lost to the ancestors of the Welsh, or else ancient Scot-
tish.

2dly. That the names of places, mountains, and rivers
throughout Britain, can be explained only by the Irish lan-
guage, which names, and very many terms in ordinary use
amongst the Welsh, are of Irish, not Welsh origin, which
leaves no room to doubt but the Irish must have been the in-
habitants of England and Wales when those names were im-
posed, though none of the Irish themselves, amongst all the
writings they have published about the history and origin of
their nation, maintain they were possessed of the country."

Such in few words being the substance of the scheme of
Edward Lhuyd, let us enquire who our author was, and the
circumstances that led to his intimate acquaintance with the
Irish language.

Edward Lhuyd was an ancient Briton, keeper of the

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museum at Oxford, at the commencement of the last century,
and being well versed in the primitive language of his race,
he was requested to leave to posterity a legacy from the store
of his acquirements, to comply wherewith, he apphed his
mind to the study of the history of his country, from the
most early times, the knowledge of which he was sensible
could be attained by means of the ancient language only*
wherein were expressed the most ancient names of places, &c'
which language he naturally imagined was that wherein he, an
ancient Briton, was eminently skilled. But he had not pro-
ceeded far in his undertaking, when he discovered that the
most ancient names of places in Britain were not in his origi-
nal tongue, and being aware, from his intimate knowledge
therein, that his language partook of the genius, and was cast
in the mould of the language of Eri, he repaired thither, and
there he satisfied himself, that the ancient names he sought
for were in the language of the people of that land, and then
set about the framing a scheme for the purpose of accounting
for the fact, which he published as a preface to a Glossary,
which he called Archeologia Britannica, addressed to his
country people, the legacy which he hath bequeathed unto
mankind; which scheme shall now^be examined with that
tenderness and delicacy which modesty such as Lhuyd's should
never fail to inspire, yet with the strictness that respect for
truth requires, nay demands.

Before I reply critically to these suppositions, I beg of you
not to lose sight of two important circumstances, the one ap-
plicable to the universe, the other to the individual ; that no
human being hath any sort of knowledge, even traditionary,
of any emigration from Britain to Eri, antecedently to the in-
troduction of Normans, by the false traitor, Diarmuid Caba-
nagh M'Murrogh, in the year since Christ 1169 ; on the con-
trary that we of Eri deny such a fact, and that Edward Lhuyd
ingenuously avows he hath no written authority, for what he
candidly calls the novelties he hath uttered, which term
novelty^ you will please to note, doth apply not to what he
hath dehvered concerning the most ancient names of places in

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Bri-tain, being in the Irish language, on which there can be
no error, but to his manner of accounting for that fact, in whicli
that he hatli failed altogether, will be manifested by the few
following observations,

Lhuyd fancied that Ireland was co-inhabited by two distinct
nations, (for one of whom he hath coined the name of Guyd-
heUans,) immediately from Britain, originally from Gaul; the
other Scots from Spain, and that it was the Guydhelians, who,
during their occupation of Britain, imposed the most ancient
names on places in that country, and afterwards were driven to
Ireland by another colony of Guydhelians, who had emigrated
from Gaul also ; yet that these most ancient names of places
in Britain were not in the British, that is Welch, that is the
the latter Guydhelians, but in the first Guydhelians language,
which was the language used in Ireland, when he visited that
country not more than 130 years ago.

Now I ask any man endowed but moderately with the ^ft
of discrimination, if this first fancied Guydhelian colony had
existence, would the posterity of the second colony who ex-
pelled their brethren, have a difficulty in solving the significa-
tion of those names imposed by a nation of their own race ?
would Lhuyd have been under the necessity of journeying to
Ireland, in quest of the language whereby he hoped to explain
these names, and in which he did find all the words for which
he had been at a loss ? would not all the names have been in
his own vernacular tongue ?

But (quoth he) these words were lost to the ancestors of the
Welch, so then following that fantasy, we are to believe, that
the people who remained on the soil, lost the language, in
which all the most ancient names of remarkable places in their
proper country were denoted, and yet that it was retained even
to the days of Lhuyd, by another colony of the same race,
who had no connexion with the land for thousands of years !
Eri, Eri, to what unheard of uses are thy language and thy
people converted ! doth any one fabled miracle of the church
militant here on earth exceed this ! ! !

Now prithee call to mind even so much of the ancient his-

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tory of Britain as I have disclosed to you, do you not find
therein a solution of the facts in which Lhuyd first bewildered,
then lost himself, driven to the necessity of fancying novelties,
for which he had no foundation. Therein you see clearly that
the language by which and which only the very ancient names
of places in Britain can be explained, is not a fictitious Guyd-
helian, but the real Scythian or Scottish language of Eri,
commonly called Gaelleag ; the language I have proved iden-
tic with the Persian, Phoenician, Hebrew, Ardmenian, Gothic
Grecian and Roman ; this is the language by which all the
most ancient names of places in that part of Britain, colonized
by the Phcenicians and Iberians, must be explained, Llmyd
was surprised that notwithstanding the fact of these names
being in a language spoken in his own days in Ireland, the
Irish never advanced any pretension to their having occupied
Britain at any time ; we never did, because we never had any
ground for the pretension ; but doth it follow, because we of
Eri never possessed any part of Britain, that therefore no
people of our race and language did colonize districl's thereof?
I hope I have no occasion to use any farther argiunent to con-
vince you, that the tribes of Dunmianac, the Silures, and the
Brigantes, were of Phoenician and Iberian origin, and that
the Ib-er-ians came to Britain from that part of present Spain,
called Gallicia and Biscay; and when I come to Eri, I will
prove that from that same Gallacia, the Gaal of Sciot of Iber
emigrated to Eri, about 31 years after Dunmianac had been
discovered by the Phoenicians, and colonized by the brethren
of those Iberians who colonized Eri, the solution of the fact
that the most ancient names in a great part of Britain, are in
the language of Eri ; and now for the key that closes the
arch, now for the demonstration that it is by this Scythian,
Scottish, Gaelleag, Irish, and Erse language, not by a whim-
sical Guydhelian that all these places are denoted ; a tribe of these
Sciot, Scoti or Scots, were invited into the service of the chief
and people of Caladun, and had the district of Ardgael, which
is Dalrlgfada, granted to them, and there we find the names
of places expressed in the same language as all the most

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ancient places from the Land's End of Cornwall, to Solway
Firth, whereby is distinctly manifested the connexion between
the Iberian tribes of Britain, of Eri, and of Ailbin, who
used a distinct language in the time of Bcde from the British,
Pictish and L'nglish, and as he supposed from the Latin, from
his being unacquainted with the Iberian diaiect thereof.

Lhuyd supposed that the fact of all the most ancient names
of places in Britain, being in the Irish language, indicated a
former occupation of that country by the Irish people ; what
would be thought of a man of hypothesis who should at some
future time, argue that the people of the republic of North
America possessed Botany Bay, and the Cape of Good Hope,
and Canada, and Nova Scotia, from the fact of the English
language being spoken in these parts, surely it would not be
proof of possession, though conclusive that ail the people who
spoke the English language were of one common origin.

In fine Lhuyd is perfectly correct in saying, that all the
most ancient names of places in Britain are in the Irish lan-
guage, but is erroneous in fancying it to be Guydhelian, of
which word I can but guess at the meaning, and suppose it to
be a kind of English translation of the bard's monstrous dis-
tortion of Gaal, of which they made Gaoidhiol, for the sake
of their rhymes, if this be the word, the misconception of
Lhuyd is complete in every case, his Guydhelian being the
common or ordinary name of the Iberian and Scottish dialect
of the Scythian tongue, signifying neither more or less than
the language of the Gaal, that is, the Gael of Sciot of Iber,
heretofore fully explained.

As these observations furnish a sufficient answer to all
writers of all times, who have imposed their ignorance on the
ignorance pand credulity of their readers, I have no occasion
to notice their lucubrations more particularly, and shall dismiss
this part of the subject with the observation, that in all those
instances where British or English writers use the word
British, as forming a part of the ancient names I have enu-
merated, you should substitute Irish therefor.

And now let me fulfil the other parts of my undertaking,

CCCXliv DEMONSTRATION.

and first as to the Druidic religion, on which many mistakes
have prevailed amongst moderns ; all which let the following
few words correct.

It was first introduced into Dunmianac by the Phoenicians,
and from thence found its way to Bri-taign in Gaul, and that
it originated in this island is clearly proved by the facts, that
the Phoenicians had no intercourse with Air-moir-ce, and that
Julius Cgesar, whom I must consider good authority, expressly
says, " it is thought this discipline was first instituted in
Britain, and from thence transferred to Gaul ; for even at this
day, those who desire to be perfect masters of their art, take
a yoyage thither to learn it ;" nor does it appear to have ex-
tended farther than to some small part of this island, and to
the middle third of Gaul, most assuredly to Ireland it never
found its way ; and if my own judgment be of avail, I am
of opinion that part of Gaul called Air-moir-ce or Britaigne,
was more indebted for population to the island of Britain, than
Britain to it.

As to the nation of Caledonia, vulgarly and most erroneously
called Picti by the Romans, Sassonized to Picts, being of Bri-
tish origin, for the reasons Camden gives, I consider his con-
jectures as altogether false or insufficient, false because there
is no instance in their history of their submitting to be go-
verned by a woman, which the pedant mistook from their cus-
tom of the male chief succeeding by the female, not the male
line ; insufficient, because though they did in the Roman times
even paint their bodies, it does nut appear to have been an
original custom, if which had been the case, the chronicles of
Eri would certainly have noticed it ; and it must be presumed
was adopted by them in after times, an improvement on the
British fashion of smearing with woad ; because though one
or two of their chiefs were named Brudi, (if this whimsical
conceit of the identity of Brudi and Brith, pi'oceeding from
the fancy of a man wholly ignorant of the language of which
these are words,) is to be seriously noticed and replied to, I ask
if Brudi or Brith means painted, why call the people Picti,
which signifies painted also ? and as to the assertion of Cam-

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den, that the Romans called them Britanni, from which he
concludes that the Plcti were real Britons, I answer, though
some of the Roman writers did call them Britanni, merely be-
cause they inhabited Britannia, being ignorant or indifferent of
their origin, and when they speak generally of the Britanni,
but why call them Picti in the same sentence wherein they
named them Britanni, why say Picti, Scoti, atque Britanni? and
inorcover let the evidence of language be referred to, doth not
Bede tell of five different languages in his time in Britain ;
British, Pictish, Roman, Scottish, and English ? and though he
iloth mark a distinction between the Pictish and English, be
it considered, the Pici moved from the Euxine into Scandi-
navia, and that Angli were in the other extremity of the land
at an immense distance, which might have caused, and it
seems did cause so great a diversity in the dialects, that an
Anglus in 730 since Christ, did not recognize the relationship,
which no doubt length of time, distance of place, and various
circumstances, had r.early worn out, and the aborigines, whom
they called Britanni.

It now remains that 1 fulfil my promise, to shew that the word
Kumero hath no affinity to Cimmerii, Cimbri, or Goraerii,
for the proof of which, very few words will suffice ; the
word Cimmerii hath been already explained to be derived
from Geimar, which signifies winter, a term applied to the
part of Europe invaded by the Gothl. Now the Irish Cumar,
of which Kumero and Kimreag are corruptions, is descriptive
of the natural quahty of the country west of the Severn, as
well as of the district called Cumar, now Cumberland, the
meaning of which is merely " a country of uneven surface, a
land of vales and mountains, hills and dales," search all the
store of antiquity, you will not find such a name as Kumero or
Cymri, by which any nation or tribe throughout Breo-tan or
Ailb-binn had been denominated.

We hear of Regni, Dobuni, Catheuchlani, Trinobantes,
Iceni, Coritani, Cornavii, and Ottadini, in England, and of
the Dimeta2 and Ordevices in the country, now called Wales,
but no such people as Kumeri or Cymri ; both Cumar and

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Gaal are Scythian words, the latter as before mentioned, ap-
plied by the Iberians to their own tribe, and tribes not of their
race in their neighbourhood, for which reason the people of
Cumar are called by the Gauls of Armorica at this day Gailes,
converted by the Sassons into Wales ; as the Germanni
changed Gaaldunseis to Waldenseis, after their fashion. No-
thing can be more absurd than to fancy that the Sassons called
the native people of Breo-tan Wealch, as strangers, the true
designation of the tribes of Cumar would be the Gaal of Cumar,
and speaking of the people, it would be Cumarig ; besides, how
could the name be attached to the people west of Severn, and
in Cumar south of Solvvay, as though they were Cimmerii,
Cirabri, Gomari, seeing that a large proportion of the former,
and all the latter district, was entirely occupied by Iberians,
who were Scythians ; and what confirms the absurdity of de-
ducing any of the nations of Britain, save the Peucini and
Belgae, from the Cimmerii, Ciiiibri, is the difference of the lan-
guage spoken by the Sassons who were Cimmerii, and the
Britons of Cumar proved to be distinct in ancient days, if the
evidence of Tacitus, Caesar, Bede, and Lhuyd, are of any
value, and as is evident to even a superficial observer at this
day, who can ktiow if he can hear, that the Belga,- on the con-
tinent of Europe speak the same language as the Sassons in
England, and the Germans, and that the people of Bretagne
use the same speech as the people called Welsh by the Sazons,
and Gailes by the Armoricans, The truth is, the name of
Wales was imposed by the Sassons, about the same era that
the Aborigines and the Iberians, west of Severne, assumed
the specific denomination of the Gaal of Cumar or Cumarig,
which was afterwards caught at by the sticklers for the infal-
libility of the traditions of the Hebrews, as liaving some faint
resemblance to Cimmerii, and that to Gomeri, to derive them
from Ardmenia, as the progeny of a man Gomer, the son of
Japheth, of fictitious existence.

And now having, I trust, laid a foundation on sure grounds,
for the very ancient history of this island, and deduced the
various notions thereon from their true original, I will take my

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leave, and steer from my poor Eri ; but previously to my final
departure, let me give an unerring proof of the total difference
of the three primitive languages at this present moment in use
in the island of Great Britain, and of their fundamental
originality, as also the certain criterion whereby to distinguish
each. The proof is to be found in the existence of the British,
Celtic or Cumareag, and Scythian, Scottish, or Gaelag, and
tlieir rejection to amalgamate with the Cimmerian, or Germannic,
or Sasson, and keep distinct from eacli other up to this hour,
though every nerve has been strained by the Sassons, whose
power yet predominates, to obliterate the two former ; and the
distinguishing critereon is, that the common terms in the
English tongue, such as a rude people would use, are Cim-
merian, and all the terms of arts and sciences, civilization and
refinement are formed on a barbarous latin, first Gallicized
and then Anglicized, to suit the genius of the original speech,
but all foreign thereto. That all British words that have no
relation to Greek or Roman in their refined form, are originals,
whilst the others have been adopted from the Scythians of
Dun-mianac, tJie Sul-ur-eis, Breo-ceant-eis, and the tribes
of Aillvbinn, as heretofore explained as Edward Lhyud hath
testified, and wisdom confirms. And that the Iberian, Scot-
tish, Erse, or Gaelleag, is the ancient Scythian in its uncouth
state, of which the Greek and Roman languages are dialects,
as hath been shewn ; to which let m e add as proof direct and
positive of the affinity of the Peucini and Belga?, with the
Jutes, the Sassons, and Angles, and with each other; that the
dialects of all these have become so completely blended that no
diff*erence exists, save in some few very ancient words still re-
tained by the Caledonians, and in a more primitive pronuncia-
tion of the language owing to their more northern situation.
These important truths I impart to the people of Great Britain
with sincere good will and affection, which is as strong for
them, as is my hatred and detestation for that oligarchy, which,
by the power they have acquired from a variety of causes,
have prostrated Ireland, are trampling on Britain, and have
carried by means of a mockery of representation, a complete

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victory over the king whom they have stripped off all his rights
and prerogatives, and over the people whose ancient laws and
liberties they have nearly extinguished, provoking the horrors of
anarchy and civil war, for the suppression of which they place
their hope on the submission to their will of the portion of the
people they have armed, to be arrayed against their brethren,
whom they have disarmed, and yet insultingly call a free
people ! ! !

NOTE TO SECTION XII.

Note. Of those to whom this idea may seem inexplicable, I beg to ask,
what are comets ? are they not at times visible to us of this earth, mem-
bers of this our solar system ? do they not stray thereout ? consequently
doth it not follow that neither the eye of man, nor yet those appliances
the cunning animal hath invented in aid of natural vision, can penetrate the
illimitable expanse of air? that there are an infinite number of etherial
systems, and that a member of one of these systems existing from eternity,
(time being as boundless as space,) might and hath become a member of
some other of these systems ; or may not the wanderer regain his former
system from causes (for which man though he never falleth to conjecture,)
cannot account. I wish that women would attend to the cultivation of
their minds, and write down thtir sentiments, to counteract the ignorance
and hypocrisy of the politic artful iiend man.

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CONCLUSION.

XIAVING attended the different colonics of the Scythian
race in theii* migrations througli Europe, of whom the Og-eag-
eis, Goths, and Iberians were Noe-maid-eis from Magh Og,
the others directly or indirectly from the land of Canaan, save
the Cretans, Phrygians, Lydians, and Phocians, I come now
to speak more particularly of the tribe known by the specific
denomination of Gaal Sciot Ib-eir, who emigrated from Iber,
by the way of Sidon and the Mediterranean to the north
western quarter of Spain, to which they gave the name of
Gaelag, where having abided for the space of 120 years, Eolus
the then chief journeyed to Sidon, where he learned the use
of letters, whither he shortly afterwards sent nine of the wisest
of the people to be instructed in that science.

Being thus enabled to record past events in characters
durable, Eolus compiled the traditions of his nation, from the
most distant note of time down to his own days, which com-
pilation forms the first six chapters of the chronicles you are
on the eve of i-eading. The nine men having returned to
Gaelag stored with the knowledge of letters, an order called
01am, (teachers or wise men,) was instituted by Eolus, of
which one was elected Ard or chief O lam by his brethern, the
principal duty of whose office was, to commit to writing: the
annals of the Gaal during his days, therein following the ex-
ample of their race in Phoenicia, to whom they were indebted
for the means, of whom Josephus, says, " so great was their
(the Phoenicians) care that the memorial of past transactions
should not be lost, that their wisest men continually preserved
them in public records sacredly," which memorials of this Gaal
so preserved from the time of Eolus, by each Ard 01am suc-
cessively, are now presented to you.

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From which pure uncontaminated source you will derive the
knowledge,

That when this tribe had sojourned 250 years in Gaelag, a
colony of them led by Eocaid, the brother of Cean-ard, the
ruling chief, crossed th6 Pyrenees, and seating themselves on
the far side of those mountains, called the land Eocaid-tan,
from whence went forth a colony eastward amongst the
mountains, who called themselves Gaaklun-seis.

That when this tribe had dwelled 453 years in Gaelag,
Sidonians passed the Breo-ccean of Gaelag, and discovered the
island to which they gave the name of Breo-tan, the present
Britain.

That when this tribe had abided 484 years in Gaelag, Se-
sostris having moved from Egyjit, invaded Spain, which he
over-ran, and established idolatry therein, whereupon the chief,
princes, nobles, olam, and as many of the Gaal as had means
of emigration, quitted Gaelag rather than live m subjection to
a foreign yoke, and steered their course westward of Breo-tain,
to an island that had first been called Fodhla, at that time
Dan-ba, to which they gave the name of Eri, their departure
having been accelerated by an uncommon drought, famine and
plague, the fidelity of these chronicles being corroborated by
the relations of other nations bearing testimony to these events,
whilst the fact of the total ignorance of our forefathers, of
idolatry, is proof positive of their having abondoned the penin-
sula at a time anterior to the introduction of image worship in
Spain, by Sesostris, and ascertains his age, as well as our emi-
gration, fixing both to 1006 years before Christ, antecedently
to which time by thirty years, multitudes of the Iberians from
Buas-ce and Gaelag, were conducted by the Pha-nicians to
Bintain, divers portions of which, they colonized as heretofore
explained.

The Gaal Sciot Ib-eir having established themselves in throe
quarters of Eri,

Their chronicles will inform you, that the genuine feodal
system was in perfect operation.

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Government executed by a single chief elected,

An armed people,

Public assemblies,

Possession of lands not individual, but tribal,

Dwelling in tents ;

That the people were fire worshippers, and paid adoration
to the sun, by the name of Baal, to the moon, which they
called Re, and to the stars, all characteristic of the Scythian
race, to which religion they adhered till the introduction of
the eastern discipline of the Christian church, nor are the ves-
tiges of veneration for fire even yet woni out, from which pri-
mitive institutions they never dechned, till the invasion of the
Cimmerian Normans and Sassons, from which lamentable day,
our ancient manners and customs, institutions and laws, have
been destroyed aftd the name of Eri hath been blotted out
from amongst the nations of the earth, the place she had so
long, so famously held, engrossed by that of Britain.

These Chronicles will instruct you, that at the time of the
arrival of our forefathers from Gaelag in this island, they
found, nor had they heard of, but two races of mankind, one
the aborigines, whom they called Ce-gail or Fir-gneat, and
preceding invaders, who called themselves Danan, and that
Partholanus, Nemidius, African giants and pirates, and Dam-
nonian necromancers, are children of fable, fictions of the
fancy of the bards.

They shew that the Sidonians, so far from havinir any in-
tercourse with this island, as some superficial schemers have
fancied, never approached the shores save once, and then
were not suffered to come to land ;

And that the Gaal Sciot Ib-eir abided altogether within
Eri, for seven hundred years, without communication with
any other people, till a tribe of Basternae, of the specific deno-
mination of Peucini,. according to the Romans, by us called
Gaal of Feotar, arrived in this island, from whence they
shaped their course to Ailb-binn, between whom and us, these
records prove the connexion.

These Chronicles, and this Demonstration, will be the

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means of enabling all who are endued with understanding, to
comprehend the reason of Cyrus, the Elamite or Persian Scy-
thian, (whose mother was Mandane, the daughter of Asty-
ages, the Median Assyrian) being called a Mule, to appre-
ciate truly the portion of Hebrew story ascribed to Daniel,
his capability to fix the termination even to one night, of the
Assyrian empire in Babylon, his treason to Bels-assur, the
Assyrian, his adherence to Cyrus the Scythian, the tale of
Daniel and the Lions, the favor of that prince towards him,
and the decree authorizing the Hebrew Scythians captivated
by the Gentile Assyrians to return to their own land, and re-
build their Temple.

This will explain the cause of the course pursued by Og-
Eisceann, on his invasion of western Asia, why he fastened
on Media, did not spare the children of Israel, and meditated
a descent on Egypt, clearly demonstrative of the difference of
origin of the Scythians, Assyrians, and Egyptians, and of
the disrespect of the genuine Scythians for the Hebrew branch
of that vast family, in consequence of their separation from
the children of their race.

These Chronicles will point out to you the perfect similarity
in the mode of public assemblies in Greece and Italy, and in
Eri, the former at the Prytaneium Demoi, the latter at the
Briteini Duine, the fire hill close to Asti, as well as in those
multitudinous customs peculiar to the Scythian race, men-
tioned in the Demonstration.

These particulars, and many more, confirmative of the
Scythian origin of the Sciot of Eri, these Chronicles point
out, therefore little more now remains than to speak of the
language in which these records are delineated, of the perfect
identity of which, with that of the Persians, Phoenicians,
Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Cantabrians, though you
must long ere this time have been convinced, I shall make a
few observations that will produce the effect of putting to
silence for ever more the senseless political fictions of Sasson
scribblers, hired by their oligarchy, who up to this day, the last
of their imposture on this head, have impressed the minds of

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their country people, and abused the ear of Christendom with
the idea, that the Scots of Eri had no letters till instructed
therein by a priest called Patrick, dignified with the title of
Saint, an assertion copied up to this hour from the inventor
whoever he was, by every succeeding man of the pen, and
assented to on their accumulated authority, by those who do
not allow themselves time to reflect, and give credence to men
falsely styled learned, because they had the reputation of
reading much. Let which assertion in future be collated with
these Chronicles, and the few words that follow.

The language in which these Chronicles are written, is at
this day called Bearla-Feine, the signification of which is, the
Phcenician language, from the very circumstance of our an-
cestors having been instructed by the Phoenicians in the know-
ledge of the characters by which it was denoted, as the Greelcs
did, as we learn from Herodotus, call them the Phoenician or
Cadmean letters, the Iberian dialect being called Gneat Bearla,
the meaning of which is, " the unwritten Vernacular or native
tongue r and also Gael-ag, that is the language of the gaa. >
tribe, or kindred ; these letters taught to Eolus, and the 01am
in Sidon, were 16, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, L, M, N, O, R,
S, T, U, the figure of which is described in the fac similes
annexed. Now if our ancestors had been ignorant of letters,
till instructed by this St. Patrick, let me ask, is it not said
that this man came from Rome? was not the Roman the lan-
guage with which he was himself acquainted ? were not the
Roman characters those, which he would have imparted to
our fathers, for the purpose of converting them to, and keep-
ing them steadfeast in the Roman doctrines he came, as said,
to promulgate ? How then did it come to pass, that the let-
ters that ever were, and still are, in use in Eri, are not the
three and twenty Roman, but the sixteen Phoenician letters,
between which there is little or no resemblance. Seeing then
that the Roman and Irish characters have no correspondence
either in number or figure, I leave the world to judge of the
degree of credit in future to be attached to men, who with
that confidence that never fails to accompany ignorance and

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deceit, have ventured to transcribe the fiction. But when it
is farther taken to account, that the existence of this Irish
church militant is much more than doubtful, that his paren-
tage, country, yea his name, are matter of mere conjecture,
that the feats of his legerdemain, the least miraculous of them,
a mortal wound to the veracity of every tale related of him,
fill volumes, 1 repeat, what credence is to be given to this
fable.

I marvel that no attempt had been made in the l5th cen-
tury, the procreant season of rank forgery, by the ignorant
pretenders to learning in Britain, to prove that this wonder-
working Saint taught us to speak, which would be nothing
more stupendous than an infinity of exhibitions ascribed to
him, and would be as greedily swallowed, aye, and would be
digested by thousands, and tens of thousands, as all the others
have been, such an unaccountable brute is man. And now, to
give a quietus to Patrick, and to this, and every other tale,
whereof he is the champion, I undertake to demonstrate that
no such individual did eveV figure on the stage of Eri.

It is said on no certain authority, that Celestine Pope of
Rome sent a missionary, on whom the title of Patricius was
conferred, who was in due time elevated to the sainthood, and
that by this Patrician Saint from Rome, vulgarly called Saint
Patrick, the Irish fire worshippers were converted to the doc-
trine and ceremonies of the Roman or western church.

It is an historical fact, that when Eugenius the third Pope of
the same Rome, did send four palls, as a proof of his tender love
for the Irish, as he said, but really to prove the acceptance as
a badge and token of their subjection to his semi-divine king-
dom, he with them sent one John Paparo, in order to prevail
on these same Irish to conform to the Roman rites and cere-
monies, and particulaily as to the celebration of the Paschal
festival, which our ancestors observed not according to the
discipline of the Roman or Western, but of die Eastern
Church ; and it is also matter of fact, that when in one hun-
dred years afterwards, Robert Breakspear, an Englishman,
Pope of the same Rome, by the name of Hadrian the Fourth,

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took the liberty, as vice-gcient of God, to bestow our Eri on
his countryman Henry the Second of England, one of the
conditions of the deed of bargain and sale between this tem-
poral and spiritual thief was, that the said Henry should con-
vert our ancestors to the Christian faith, and that deed is the
origin of the title of a foreigner, a Cinniicrian, to the seat of
the elected chief of Eri, the title confirmed mit by the prowess
nor beneficent rule of the intruder, but our disunion, sense-
less pride, jealousy, and contention, which by culpable apa-
thy his successors have y.iffered to be usurped by a base,
ignoble oligarchy.

I say, one of the conditions to be fulfilled by Henry, was
to convert the Irish to Christianity. Now I ask any man,
even the most sophisticated benighted Papist, if Patrick, a
Roman western missionary, had converted the Irish to Chris-
tianity in the space of time between 5S0 and 580, would they
be found in 1050, not in communion with tlie Roman or West-
ern church, in the most solcnm of all their ceremonies, the
celebration of Easter, but with the eastern church? And
again, would it have been necessary for Breakspear, in 1160,
to have made it one of the conditions of the bargain and sale
between him and Henry the Second of I'^ngland, to convert
us Irish to Christianity, the eastern logic being considered bv
the western or Roman in as evil a light as Paganism itself.?

The proofs heretofore submitted to you are irrefragable of
the identity of the Scottish language, or Gaeleag as now called,
with the Phoenician, the fact hath been demonstrated in Bri-
tain, where you have proof direct and positive, that the tribes
from Cantabria who colonized Dun-mianac, the land of the
Sul-ur-es, and of the Breo-cceann-t-eis, spoke the same lan-
guage as the tribe that colonized Eri from the same quarter ;
a fact which accounts for the most ancient names of places in
Britain, being at this day explain ed by the language now in use
in Eri, not a fanciful Guydhelian, but the actual Scythian
Bearla Feine, Scottish, Gaelleag, Erse, introduced into Ard-
gael, by the colony conducted to Dalrigfada, by Eocaid Cairbre,.
and to Craig, by Feargus, the son of Muin-rarnar, in which

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same language all the names of places on the western coast,
and in the western islands of Scotland are expressed ; and
though our language is the greatest curiosity to be found in
Eri, our actual political state excepted, as it hath sur-
vived, it is not to be wondered that it preserved its original
purity down to the era of the Norman invasion, when it is
considered that we dwelled apart from stranger people during
our abode of 484 years in the north west corner of Spain ;
and all the time of our existence in Eri, under circumstances
that sufficiently explain the cause of its exemption from cor-
ruption, without the aid of the observation of Plato in his
Cratylus, " that the original names of things, long since obso-
lete and out of use, are preserved in barbarous tongues, be-
cause the most ancient ;" when I apply the term original
purity to the Scythian language of Eri, I mean not to say it
is a refined language ; no, its refinement Avas obstructed by the
Saxons, ignorant of its worth, though they are indebted to it for
the letters first in use with them ; its great value consists in its
having retained its radical structure, for certainly national pride
and prejudice cannot be carried to a greater extent than in the
manner wherein the people of Eri contend for the beauty,
graces, all perfective truly, of their language ; whereas it can
be considered only as a rare curiosity, venerable for its anti-
quity, and the preservation of its antique form, which it would
not have retained, had we been in communication with other
nations of the earth. At the same time be it remembered that
this language hath long since been confined to the mouths of
the poor and ignorant, no longer spoken and written by the
kings, princes, nobles, and olam of the land.

And now pray letme ask who are " the people with whom
have originated the aspersions and calumnies on our na-
tion and our language, are they not the Sassons, and
are they qualified to give even an opinion on this sub-
ject, ignorant as they are of the only means whereby
truth can be investigated ; a people who with a devour-
ing tongue have made rude and wanton havoc in all the
delicacies of antiquity, who with a licentious and destroying

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hand, have not only lopped the branches, marred the trunk,
but torn up by the very root, the tree of knowledge of the
antique world, and violated fair science in her most venerable
sanctuary ; insomuch, that etymology, by means whereof alone
the genuine origin of nations of very remote antiquity, can be
explored with exactitude, hath in England become a subject
of derision, from the difficulties with which it is embarrassed
by the arbitrary spirit and practice of the people, whose ver-
nacular tongue, not allied in the most distant degree to the
language of Eri, hath adopted for the denotement of all arts
and sciences, and of nearly all ideas, save those conceived in
the rudest state of society, and for the expression of wants
most circumscribed, the terms of Greece and Rome to more
than a moiety of their nomenclature, forced to the harsh dis-
cipline of their rough tongue, between which foreign auxilia-
ries and other dialects of the same family, they cannot discover
the affinity, proof incontrovertible of the difference of origin
between the Scythian and Cimmerian, bar insurmountable to the
Sassons of England to any effectual research into the depths of
antiquity, insomuch, that though some have candidly acknow-
ledged ignorance, others, and by far the greater proportion of
their writers, have disingenuously endeavoured to cast into ridi-
culej and contempt the very remote history of nations, and
have commenced (as Camden, par example,) at the point suited
to their want of ability, sacrificing thereto all respect for litera-
ture and truth.

To bring this part of our subject to an end, I will deliver as
very truth, that the original language of Britain is that called
by the ancients the Celtic, spoken by the aboriginal people of
Britain, whose forefathers were generated by the elements
thereof, as ancient as the globe itself.

That the English language is the Germannic, enriched by
the ornaments of Greece and Home, wherewith it is so be-
decked as to hide its original cumbrous shape, and wherefrom
it hath been moulded into a fine form, and acquired much
majesty of expression and grace.

And that the language of Eri, or Gneat Bearla, is that

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spoken by the Scytho-Iberian, Naol-Maid-eis, Ogeageis, im-
proved to the Bearla Fcine, or Phcenician language, by the
aid of letters, a dialect of the Persian, Hebrew, Greek,
Roman, and Gothic, as written in Gaelag 1365 years before
Christ, in which are delineated these chronicles of the Gaa.
Sciot Ib-cr, in Gaelag, and in Eri; the language called
Scottish, Gaelag, Irish, Er-se, as in use at this hour, alive,
but languishing on a declining bed with the children of the
land, the tongue and lips pale, meagre, and woe begone.

O that I could restore them to their pristine vigour, to the
utterance of their dulcet tones again : Sons and daughters of
Eri, shake oiF your stupor. Andah ! if ye cannot feast each others
ears with tales of joy, let not your sighs be articulated in lan-
guage foreign to your lips, as those who speak therein are to
our hearts. Maidens and matrons, young men and old, as
squatted on the damp floor of your filthy sties, by the dim
light of your own wretchedness, your'forms bent, your spirits
yet unbroken, after a weary day toiled in slavery, on lands that
vrere once your sires, the transfer written in their blood, you
tell of other times, oh let the notes be chaunted, though not
in the gay and sportive style, yet in the language of the olden
days, though plaintively.

In order to render these chronicles perfectly inteUigible to
you, and to correct the misrepresentations of Sasson writers, I
think proper to explain the laws of Eri.

These, says Sasson writers, were of two kinds, which they
call the Brehon law, and the law of Thanistry, on which they
descant in terms conformable to their ignorance, falsely and in-
explicably, whereas nothing is more clear than the truth.

You will see the roll of the laws, and the manner of their
enactment, 700 years before the Christian era, whereby you
will be informed, that life was not forfeited for any offence but
murder with evil mind, adhering therein to the social regulation
in the time of Noe, " Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by
man shall his blood be shed." In all other cases, retribution,
lex talionis, was the rule.

To call the law of Eri, Brehon law, is precisely the same as if

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I was to call the law of England " the Judge's law,'* which by
the way is the very best definition of the present law of En-
gland, which is to be found, not in enactments, but in un-
authorized books, professing to contain reports of the opinions
of judges from time to time, as well as from the latitude
allowed to the discretion of these lawyers, which may be exer-
cised according to their humour, will, and pleasure, whereby
on the pronunciation of the word guilty, one of these indivi-
duals can doom the oiFender to a prison for an hour, or for
years, or permit him to return to the bosom of his family ;
may decree him to lose the smallest coin, or a large sum of
money ; stamping thereby on law which should be precise,
and equal, the character of vacillation and partiality, a calumny
which cannot be attached without manifest injustice to the law
of Eri, xvhich was fixed as the rock, over which the organ of
the judgments had no controul, whose duty was to preside, to
preserve order, to observe that silence himself enjoined to all
the assembly, (all of whom were the arbiters,) till the award
of the hearers, then to spread out the roll, and read therefrom
the words of the judgments, as the name of the office imports,
which IS not a judge, but the pronouncer of judgment. He
had no right to express his judgment, it was the judgment of
the law, he declared that our forefathers had no conception of a
practice so frightful, as the intrusion of the private opinion of
the man, who was to hold the scales of justice with an even hand
between an accuser and the accused, nor would they have
endured it. And when it is considered that Sassons have been
the men to draw a hideous picture of our ancient jurispru-
dence, doth it not verify the old saying, that men can discern
a mole in the eye of another, though he feeleth not a beam in
his own eye ; men who defame the beautiful simplicity of an-
cient times, and are charmed with the crooked complexity of
his own days.

Tanaistact, translated by the Enghsh " the law of Thanis-
try," regarded dignity, sucdessions, and landed tenures. Ac-
cording to this law, every office in the community, from the
chief to the most subordinate station, was elective ; by this

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law elections were regulated, lands were portioned amongst
the tribes, of the fair proportion of which no adult could he
deprived, not descendable to children, as belonging to the in-
dividual, but to the tribe, founded on the principle expressed.

" Eri is the inheritance of all the children of the land, ac-
' cording to their due share thereof."

If I have taken pains to demonstrate that the European
Cimmerii, Cimbri, or Germanni, are not of the same race as
the Asiatic Scytho-Iberians, have I done so from the thought
that the latter is the more noble origin, the idea of nobility
proceeding from the character and actions of the two people ?
No, truly, in that case I am inclined to think I should give the
preference to the former, from the proofs afforded by their
enemies of their valour, their respect for justice, their devotion
to liberty, and from the fact of their having maintained their
independence to the last against all invaders.

Have I shewn that the European Celtee, ancient Britons, or
Welsh, have a totally different origin from the Scytho-Ibe-
rians, have I been induced thereto, because 1 fancied the
former people were inferior to the latter ? By no means, when
I look upon the earliest detailed record of this race, and there
see the memorial of their prowess in the hand-writing of the
unprovoked invader of their liberties, their title to renown of
the highest order is apparent ; wherefrom, notwithstanding his
false relations, and the exaggerated fulsome panegyrics of
lying poets'" laureat, designed to perpetuate the transcendant
fame of Romans, but in my mind are calculated to immortalize
the glory of the ancient Britons, (tribes of whom it was that
he attacked,) and will be so considered, by all who abhor un
provoked violence, unjust oppression, and have respect for
noble efforts in defence of national and personal independence,
the choicest blessing under the sun ; when I review these me-
morials, I cannot give the Scythians precedence of them,
though they did yield to the Cimmerii ; but then be it consi-
dered, that they had been rendered effeminate and enslaved by
Romans, who taught them to frequent the porticoes and the
baths, considered by them as proof of good breeding, but by

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the Romans as badges of servitude, amongst the instrumenta
regni of tliat treacherous people, what motive then bath ac-
tuated me ? Truth, and truth only, in the positive conviction
that I cannot err.

Whether I have performed the promise I gave on our
setting out on tliis long voyage, that I would demonstrate
the difference of the origin of Asiatic Scythians and their
adoration of Baal, and veneration for fire, from Eui-opean
Cimmerii, and their worship of Mannus and Earthum, and
from European Celtje, and their Druidism, you can now de-
termine, and that you will determine in the good spirit of
wisdom, not the evil spirit of prejudice, let me be permitted
tu express my hope.

And now having completed the elevation of this gigantic
arch, of which one base rests on the banks of the Indus, the
other on tiie flinty margin of the waves that wash the feet of
my beloved Eri, from whose every pore do issue streams of
blood, painted on the front thereof the representation of the
manners, customs and institutions of the Scythian nations,
shewing the relation of the various tribes, however remotely
separated, and least the description should have been deemed
too hieroglyphical, surmounted the structure with characters
.egible, not to be mistaken, demonstrating to all who can
see and understand, speaking to all who can hear, bringing
conviction home to all endued with ordinary sense, of the Scy-
thian origin, and the migrations of this tribe from Magh-
Seanar, by Euphrates, to the Araxes, and Iberia in Magh-Og,
from thence to Gaelag, by the way of Sidon and the Mediter-
ranean, and ultimately to this Eri.

The seat of the glory of our forefathers, — of our disgrace.

Of their pride, — of our debasement.

The land of their native sovereignty and independence, — of
our subjection to a foreign yoke and servitude.

The scene of their joy and gladness,— of our heartfelt grief
and agony.

Once the soil, every being who breathed the air whereof,
had his fair proportion, his inheritance from nature, — the land

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appropriated to the pampering a foreign brood, her own chil-
dren woepined, prostrated on her exhausted bosom in a state
of misery and very wretchedness.

Where our forefathers had abundance, and over and above
for the exercise of the duties of hospitality and benevolence.
— Where we are aliens and outlaws, though our native place.

A land where devotion to country zaas a virtue. A land
where patriotism is a vice of the blackest dye, visited by endless
persecution, calumny and spoliation.

Such toas Eri of our forefathers.
Such is Eri because it is not their sons.

What it was the chronicles of the land do testify :

What it is, hear from the lips of one of her sons, as sweet
a bard as any of ancient or modern days. —

" Alas for my country, her pride is gone by,

" And that spirit is broken which never would bend ;
*' O'er the ruin in secret her children may sigh,

*< For 'tis treason to love her, and death to defend.
** Unprizd are her sons, till they learn to betray,

" Undistinguish'd they live, if they shame not their sires ;
" For the torch that would light to pre-heminence way,
" Must be caught from the pile where their country expires.'"

Moore.

T^ote. I ask pardon of the bard for the liberty I have taken of altering
one word of his ; though tyrants may raise traitors to Pre-eminence, it is
not in their power to dignify them, dignity is intrinsic. Pre-eminence is a
pageant, dignity implies worthiness; Pre-eminence station; and whom do
we now behold in place pre-eminent, but the most vile and worthless.

POSTSCRIPT.

Recollectino to have read a passage in Josephus's Anti-
quities, corroborative of the many proofs of the Greeks and
Hebrews being derived from the same stock, of which 1 ne-
glected to take a note ; on referring to Wliistmis translation,
for the purpose of stating it in the proper place, it chanced
that the page in which it was had not been cut open, and
thus escajied me ; having this moment happened to light on
the passage, I beg leave to insert it here :
" Aritis, king of the Lacedemonians, to Onias, sendeth greeting :"

*' We have met with a certain writing, v/hereby we have
" discovered that both the Jews and the Lacedemonians are
" of one stock, and are derived from the VJmdvcdo^ Abraham.
*' It is but just therefore, that you who are our biethren,
" should send to us about any of your concerns as you
" please; we will also do tlie same thing, and esteem your
" concerns as our own ; and will look on our concerns as in
** common with yours. Demoteles, who brings you this
" letter, will bring your answer back to us. This letter is
" four square, and the seal is an eagle, with a dragon in its
«' claws."- Vol. 11. Book 12. Chap. 6.

On which Whiston hath the following long note :

" Whence it comes that these Lacedemonians declai'e
themselves here to be of kin to the Jews, as derived from
the same ancestor Abraham, I cannot tell, unless, as Grotius
supposes, they were derived from the Dores that came of
the Pelasgoi ; these are by Herodotus called barbarians, and
perhaps were derived from the Syrians, and Arabians, the
posterity of Ah-aham by Keturah ; wt may further observe,
from the recognitions of Clement, that EUezer of Damascus,
the servant of Abraham, was of old by some taken for his
son, so that if the Lacedemonians were sprung from him,
they might think themselves to be of the posterity of Abra-

II POSTSCRIPT.

ham, as well as the Jews who were sprung from Isaac ; and
perhaps tliis Eliezer of Damascus, is that very Damascus
whom Trogiis Pompeius, as abridged by Justin, makes the
founder of the Jewish nation itself, though he afterwards
blunders, and makes Azelus, Adores, Abraham, and Israel,
kings of Judea, and successors to this Damascus."

I trust you are now better informed, and know how to ap-
preciate the conjectures of IVTiiston, Grotius, Clement, Tra-
gus Pompeius and Justin ; the relationship between the
Lacedemonians and the Hebrews did not proceed from Abra-
ham, nor Eliezer, but from the tribe of Garchad, who were
Scythians of Canaan, and fled from that land to Egypt on
the invasion of Joshua, the robber, as he is called, and from
Egypt emigrated to Greece, where they were called Pelasgoi :
and here let me make an observation, not having, I fear, been
sufficiently explanatory in the body of this Demonstration ;
That the first Scythian invaders of Lacedemon were Pelasgoi,
but when the Heraclides returned to Peloponnesus, they
effected their restoration by the aid of the Dorians, of the
Ogygean Ellenes, who became blended with the Pelasgoi,
and being now more powerful gave their nam*^; to the whole,
though Areui the chief was a Pelasgian ; facts, the know-
ledge of which tend to relieve from confusion the lustory of
the origin of these several tribes of Greece, and canr-ot he
too minutely attended to.

Men of literature, is it not high time, on your own ac-
count, and for the sake of the youth committed to your care,
that you set your faces against the entire catalogue of per-
haps's, probabilities, Hkelihoods, and may he's, and the prac-
tice of quoting the writings of men of modern times, who
cannot now produce any new fact, and whose argumentations
upon the memorials of ancient days are alwa^'s founded on
conjecture, and analogies of events for the most part sup-
positions, for the authenticity whereof they have no voucher.

€f)t aeartttng of ISoItt^<

PART THE FIRST.

CHAP. I,

Eolus was Chitf qf Gael-ag from the year 1368 to
1335 before Christ. He gives the traditionary
history of the Scythians from the earliest point of
time marked to his own days. This chapter con-
tains an account qf the mighty revolution, that put
an end to the Scythian dominion in Asia — and the
foundation of the Assyrian empire on the ruins
thereof; being a space of time noted o/' 3144
rings or years.

O WISDOM, thou art to be preferred to all things,
to impart wisdom is the duty of all men. He who
possesseth wisdom, and neglecteth to instruct others,
hoardeth what should be shared ; it is a treasure that
may be lavishly bestowed, without injury to the
donor ; yea the donor enricheth himself by the gift.

Wisdom is the knowledge of truth direct without
doubt.

Hearken, my son, to the words of our great fathers ;
from them our fathers heard the lessons of wisdom
in the words of truth, passed by them to us that
now be, and from us to be delivered to those who
are to come ; so, till time of this earth shall be no

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more, which will not be, till Baal shall withdraw
the light of his countenance, the fire of his spirit
from the children of this world.

Many are the truths still hidden from man ; who
can declare at what time the waters were rolled
from off this earth ? — none — (a.) Who hath in-
formed man how he was made ? how long his

dwelling was in the bosom of the vast deep how

or when he ceased to breathe in that element ? —
none, (b)

Who hath disclosed the first dimensions of all
things ? Who hath noted the degrees of their de-
crease 1 Who can tell — by what means can man
now discover the causes of the production of all
things ? (c)

It is said Baal formed every thing from the earth,
the water, and the air, and into man alone breathed
the spirit of fire, pure essence of himself, the effect
whereof is reason.

Thus is it said, who knoweth how truly? with
whom did Baal hold talk ? — at what time did he
draw nigh unto the children of men ? which one of
the sons of man did ever approach Baal] who is he
that ever heard the sound of the voice of Baal, that
he could distinguish the words of his breath ? doth
Baal speak aloud to make man affear'd ? who can
tell his words ? — none.

. Man imagineth — Are the thoughts which he di- '
vulgeth to his fellow just ?

For myself I ask, and none can tell, how came
Baal himself? is he not composed of materials the
same as all other living beings, his huge dimensions.

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his might and power, effects of combinations un-
known to man ?

Many are the things beyond the reason which
man possesseth : he may fancy— what availeth fancy ?
it is of no avail ; reason and wisdom reject such, as
misconceptions of vanity.

Man would be thought to know all things, even
of the air, and for lack of wisdom flyeth to deceit-
ful fancy, the vain, the ignorant, the credulous is
one, — wisdom, truth, and reason is one other.

My Son, — Do thy utmost to attain to the certain
knowledge of things of this world within the scope
of thy understanding. List not to idle dreams of airy
fantasy ; contemplate ever so deeply on things thy
senses cannot reach, all thy contemplations will come
round to the' point whereat they commence; —
Where? — They commenced in fancy — in fancy
they will end.

Are there not things in abundance level with thy
comprehension worthy of all thy care ? — Hast thou
not parents — the father who begat — the mother who
bared and suckled, tenderly reared thee up, anxiously
watched over thy helpless state — Hast thou none of
thy mother's w omb— no partner of thy secret thoughts,
—hast thou no children — are no friends thine ? —

Hast thou not a name to be spoken of now,— to
be remembered in after times ?— how great the joy
to hear the voice of praise raised in memory of our
forefathers— what glory to the race— what an exalta-
tion to all those descended from their loins !

Hard hath been the lot of him, whose spirit hath
taken its flight to mingle with its kindred eliments,
no mention made of him in times to come— \mtoward

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hath been the mind of him, who hath not left a trace
of his existence amongst men — or to be remembered
by reason only of his evil deeds.

How glorious to gain immortality, by having in-
fused a portion of his spirit into the children of
man, to abide on the earth for ever.

My Son, — Pursue not phantoms of imagination,
study thyself— call to mind continually the materials
of which thou art composed — if much of them is
prone to the sluggishness of earth, the instability of
water, the inconstancy of nimble air, remember the
jfire ol thy spirit hath power to controul and direct,
if thou wilt keep it pure.

Oh ! that man should suffer his passions to sub-
due his reason, the fire of his spirit smothered, all
but extinguished, — are earth, air, and water, more
powerful than fire ? — is matter more potent than
spirit ?

Why delighteth man to do what he condemneth
in another ? — Why doth he unto his fellow, what he
would not that his fellow should do unto him ?

The heart of man is proud — he coveteth power
and pre-eminence ; he will gain them by deeds of
evil, without reflection ; he listeneth to the voice of
the seducer, the false flattering tongue that betray-
eth— unruled passions hurry him on—folly taketh
dominion of such an one ; reason hath departed
from him, his spirit was weak.

My Son,™ Let all thy actions be such, that when
thy iuilk shall be inanimate, thy spirit shall live for
ever in the hearts of men.

My Son, — Hear the tale of times of old ; hear of
our race the renowned of the earth. What time

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our fathers marked not, is as the cloud that hath
passed away, no note taken — no memorial preserved :

Let us speak of times measured by Baal in his
circuit, as he moveth in his course to animate his
children.

How glorious is Baal, how good, how provident ;
doth he not produce the fruits that sustain the life
of man ? — doth he not feed, and warm every living
being ?

Doth he not give light by day, and impart a por-
tion of his splendour to his dwelling place to illu-
mine the night, and mark the seasons ?

How terrible is Baal in his anger, when he send-
eth forth his messengers in fire, air, and water, and
maketh the earth to tremble. All elements are his
servants.

Hear of times marked — 1 have the rings of our
fathers ; they have noted the rings of their times : I
will mark the rings of my days. Thou wilt mark
those of thy days — so shall signs and seasons be
perpetual.

Attend now, my Son, — Our great fathers dwelt
on the left side of the sun's rising, beyond the sources
of the great waters. Of days marked whilst Baal
performed one thousand and eleven circuits in his
course.

Then did they spread themselves from the flood of
Sgeind even to the banks pf Tcth-gris,

And when one thousand three hundred and four
rings were completed, then did our fathers of these
days pass to this side of Teth-gris, and moving
towards the sun's going, reach to the Affrekig-eis,
and they became lords of all the lands on this side;

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and on that, they outstretched their arms over all
nations, with mercy.

And Ahsal, he it was who went out before the
host, from the land of the elements of which our
great fathers were formed.

And Daire was he, who conducted the children
of the land to this side Affreidg-e'is — and t.he race
of Daire were chiefs of the earth. (J)

Attend again, my Son, — When twice nine hundred
rings, and thrice three rings were marked on the
banks of Affreidg-eis, a multitude from the sun's
rising, beneath the land of the first abode of our great
fathers, poured ia upon the land of our fathers that
then lived, like unto a swarm of locusts, or clouds of
burning sands, yea even as a torrent of mighty waters,
that overwhelmeth all things.

And the multitudes for numbers not to be counted,
as the sands of the sea, as the stars of the heavens, —
speaking with a thousand tongues diverse one from
another — fierce and cruel, came over our fathers.

And many of the Gaal were made captives — and
many lay in death, whose state was happier than
that of his fellow.

And Ardfear, chief of the race, and all the heads
of the people who stood in the presence of the chief,
dwelling round about the tents of Ard-fear, escaped
from the edge of the sword of Eis Soir. (g)

And A r elf ear floated on the bosom of Blessed
Affreidg-eis, and the waters bare up his little skiff,
till he lighted on the plain of Ard-miojiu.

And all that wentforth from Macs-h-seau-ar dwcW^d

o

in Ard-mionu, and Ardfear x\\\Qdi that land as afore-
time— but in person.

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And the foemen of the east sheathed not the sword
for one entire ring ; and when one ring was complete
there was peace.

And Eis Soir made the earth to groan for the
weight which they laid on the places where thereto-
fore had stood the tents of Ardfear, and the heads
of the Gcml. {li)

Did they not raise up dwellings durable, and walls
round about, and a watch tower to look over the
land on every side ? {%)

And multitudes of the Gaal flocked to the tents
of Ard-fear in Ard-mionu, and they encreased ex-
ceedingly.

And when A^d-fear had ruled for the course of
one score and eleven rings in Ard-mionu, then and
there he died.

And all the children of the land aforetime, and of
the Gaal, gathered themselves together, and they
placed the bulk of Ard-fear in the boat, in which he
was borne from Magh-sean-ar even unto Ard-mionu
on the waters of the Blessed Affreidg-eis.

And they set the boat on the spot where it had
rested, when Ard-fear came therefrom unto the land.

And they raised the boat charged with the weight
of the chief from the water, and it was conveyed on
the shoulders of the nobles for the space of nine
hundred paces, from the margin of the water, to-
wards the sun's going.

And there was the boat in which lay the form of
Ardfear set down, and there was his heap raised —
a memorial for ever.

And all the people moaned inwardly, and they
poured forth lamentations loudly, invoking the spirit

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of Ardrfear, calling him Naoi, the chosen of Baal,
for the preservation of the race of Absal and the
Gaal-Nasi, whom the streams of Blessed Affreidg-
eis did bear in safety to Ard-mionn. {k)

NOTES TO CHAPTER I.

(a) Eolus here gives the tradition of his nation concerning the
origin of this world, — from which it appears their idea was that this
Earth always existing, became a member of this solar system by
the rolling of the waters from off its surface.

That such was the opinion of the Eastern nations, we learn from
Tragus Pompeius, in his relation of the controversy of the iScy-
lhia7is and Egyptians for antiquity, and that such was the opinion of
the Hebrews the only people known to us, to have given a circum-
stantial detail of a creation, is apparent from the first Chapter of
Genesis, where we find,

V. I. " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2. And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was
upon the face of the deep — and the spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.

3. And God said, let there be light, and there rvas hght.

g. And God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered
together into one place — And let the dry land appear.

10. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering to-
gether of the waters called he Seas."

From which it is evident, that the Hebrews supposed the heaven,
and the earth, the waters and the air existed antecedently to the
work of the six days. — These had been created yrow the beginmng.

Light was the production of the first day.

A firmament, and the separation of waters theretofore in being,
were the work of the second day.

And the operation of the third day, was the gathering together
into one place, the portion of the waters under the firmament, when
God said " Let the dry land appear" — and it was so. — And God
called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of waters
called he Seas ; God did now but give names to the land, and to
the waters, upon the face of which (previously to the appearance of
the dry land,) the air (beautifully expressed by the spirit of God)
did move.

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These authorities are, in my judgment, conclusive, as to the ideat
of all nations of antiquity, that this earth had been originally sub-
mersed in the waters — a much' more rational opinion than the
•whimsical theories of any of those modern systemizers, who have
taken such a world of words on a subject that admits not of proof,
nor any thing approaching thereunto.

(6) It seems from this expression that the Scyihiant fancied that
man and all animals had originally been inhabitants of the waters-
it is somewhat remarkable that the Hebrew names for Jdam and Eve
are I$ch and Ischa, which in the language of £ri, at this day, means a
male and female fish — that the Hebrerv language is a dialect of the
Scythian— -oi which the language of Eri is also a dialect, hath been
sufBciently shewn by the dissertation~and by the Glossary annexed
to this work.

(c) Here £ofos gives the ideas of his nation concerning the produc-
tion of man, which they attributed to the influence of the Sun, on
the combination of all the other elements — the mass they conceived
to be composed of earth, air, and water, brought into animation
and perception, by the operation of fire, breathed into it by Baal, of
whose majesty and power the Sun was the emblem.

They imagined that the human species and all things were the
production of every climate, so long as the elements were sufficiently
powerful for that purpose.

In this idea we learn divers people of old agreed, by their con-
tending for a never-ceasing occupation of their lands by their
progenitors — for their being indigenous of that soil, having no
tradition ever so remote of the emigration of their forefathers from
any other place.

The Hebrews are the only people whose traditions have come
down to us, who take upon them to speak positively on the subject.—
They personify the first cause, and assert the creation of one male,
and one female only of the human race, in the land of Eden in
Mesopotamia, from whom have sprung mankind, in which notion,
and which alone do they differ from other nations of remote anti-
quity— as is evident by looking on the 2d Chapter of Genesis.

V. 6. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the
whole face of the ground.

7. And the Lord^ God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a
living soul.

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Words so clear as to leave no room to doubt of their notionj on
this subject.

The animal formed of the dust of the ground, watered by the
mist, (impregnated with air it must have been) received the spirit
of fire from the lips of the Creator, most eloquently expressed by
the breath of life — and thus man became a living soul.

(d) For this rare curiosity of the antique world, I beg leave to
refer you to the plate annexed of Bael-ainn.

(e) From Herodotus, Clio c. 4, " we learn that the Persians es-
teemed Asia, with all its various and barbaric nations, as their own
peculiar possessions;" and Calliope, c, 116, " the Persians consider
all Asia their own."

(/) Here is a difference of fifty-three years between the tradi-
tionary accounts of Eolus and the Hebrews — the former declaring
Jiat the ascendancy of the Scythians over what is indefinitely called
Asia, endured for the course of one thousand eight hundred and
nine years— the latter counting from their creation, which I take
to be the commencement of the Scythian power on the banks of
Euphrates, to the overthrow of their nation in the days of Noah,
by Nimrod or Bel, and the building of Ba-Bel, have computed
the time at one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six years.

(^) In these few words is to be found the brief account of the
Assyrian invasion of Mesopotamia, by Bel, Belus, Nimrod, when
Ardfear, the Noe of the Hebrews, called also Naoi, by Eolus, was
chief of the Scythian race, his tents standing on Magh-sean-ar,
the land of Shinar, of the Hebrews, and of the flight of Noe to
Ardmetiia.

By turning to the few notices that have escaped the devastation
of war in all its various shapes, we learn that at the precise time
mentioned by Eolus, writers of ancient days have placed this event.
They say that Asia had been subject to the Scythians for the space
of fifteen hundred years, which time obtained the name of the
Scythian age of the world ; and that they were succeeded by the
Assyrians, who built Bu'Bel, which became the metropolis of the
Assyrian empire.

And now if we examine the traditions of the Hebrews, recorded
in the 7th, 8th, and 11th chapters of Genesis, an account will be
found of this very revolution, described under the metaphors of a
deluge, and a raven, a dove, and olive brunch.

After giving the picture of the horrors of the deluge, in the 7th

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chapter, it proceeds in the 8th chapter to relate the operations of
Noe, after the resting of the ark on the mountains of Ararat.

V. C). And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Nue
opened the window of the ark.

7. And he sent forth a raven, which went to and fro, until the
waters were dried up from off the earth.

S. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were
abated from off the face of the ground.

9. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
returned imto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of
the whole earth ; then he put forth his hand, and took her, and
pulled her in unto him into the ark,

10. And he stayed yet other seven days, and again he sent forth
the dove out of the ark.

11. And the rfoi'e came into him in the evening, and lo in her
mouth was an olive leaf plucked off.

12. And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove,
which returned not again unto him any more.

It is to be observed, that the Hebrervs, and all people of the
East, in giving a description of interesting events, were used to
express themselves in figures, metaphor, and allegory. The style
is delightful, and affords a wide scope for the indulgence of fancy,
and a display of all the powers of oratory.

If in this our climate of the North, except in proving mathema-
tical problems, or coldly uttering the dry, and frozen language of
artificial laws, we cannot refrain from embellishing relations of the
most solemn facts, by the appliance of these captivating auxiliaries,
is it to be wondered at, that the Hebrervs indulged in the practice
to excess ? Such was the case, insomuch they seldom expressed
themselves in any other manner, as their writings testify ; every
occurrence was so decked in figured drapery, that the subject was
scarcely discernable. When the author of Genesis, be he who he
may, was recounting an event that shook a vast portion of Asia, by
what more apt metaphor could he describe a stupendous invasion
and revolution, that operated so great a change in an order of things
of 1800 years establishment, as an overwhelming ^oorf ? — What
figure so just, whereby to represent the horror, carnage, and deso-
lation of war, as the raven, the usual type of blood ? So in Aste-
risms of Chiron, wherein was delineated the expedition of the
Argonauts, we see Medea's cup, and a raven upon its carcase, the

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symbol of death. How could the messenger of peace be more fitly
pourtrayed, than by the image of the dove ? — What so appropriate
emblem of peace itself as the olive branch ? — Is it not evident that
the deluge is meant to represent this mighty revolution ? the raven
the carnage of war — the dove the messenger — the olive leaf the
amity, of peace. Let this Hebrew tale be stripped of its figurative
decorations, who that doth not recognize in it all the features of the
Assyrian invasion of Mesopotamia, and the establishment of the
dominion of the Assyrian, in the place of the Scythian, which had
by the testimony of all antiquity, endured for more than 1500
years antecedently to this precise time, that the Assyrian is recorded
to have commenced — aU account*-, synchronizing with much greater
exactitude, than any other event of so remote antiquity — all agree-
ing in persons, places, and circumstances, so as to leave no room
to doubt of their perfect identity — varying in little else than the
manner of relating the facts.

If we turn to the 8th chapter of Isaiah, where he speaks of the
evils with which Samaria is to be afflicted by the Assyrian also, do
we not hear him expressing himself after the same manner .''

V, 6. Inasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that
go softly.

7. Now therefore behold the Lord bringeth upon them the waters
of the river, strong, and many, even the king of Assyria, and all
his glory, and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over
all his banks.

8. And he shall pass thro' Judah ; he shall overflow, and go over,
he shall reach even unto the neck, and the stretching out of his
wings, shall fill the breath of thy land, O Emanuel.

I beg you now to cast your eye on the 38th chapter of the Book
of Job, that curious eastern tale, wherein the Creator is introduced
holding converse with Job, proposing questions to him, in order to
convince him of the ignorance and presumption of man, in vainly
attempting to account for events, beyond the limits of his under-
standing.

4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ?
Declare, if thou hast understanding.

8. Or who shut up the sea with doors^ when it brake forth, as
if it had issued out of the v;omb ?

9. When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick dark-
ness a swaddling band for it.

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10. And break it up for my decreed dwelling place, and set
bars and doors.

11. And said hitherto sliall tliou come, but no further, and here
shall thy proud waves be stayed.

And now pray look at 104.th Psalm.
V. 1. Bless the Lord, O my soul.

5. Who laid the foundation of tne earth, that it should not be
removed for ever.

6. Thou coveredst it with the deep, as with a garment, tne
waters stood above the mountains.

7. At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they
hasted away.

8. They go up by the mountains, they go down by the vallies,
unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

9- Thou hast set a bound, that they may not pass over, that they
turn not again to cover the earth.

Here both Job and the Psalmist are speaking of the wondrous
works of the creation, with which an actual flood of waters subse-
quently cannot be reconciled ; on the contrary, it is clear that the
Hebrews of these days knew not of such an event. If Job had
heard of such, and gave credit to it, how could he hold the lan-
guage he doth ? — " and set bars and bolts, saying hitherto shall
thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be
stayed."

If the Psalmist believed it, is it possible "that he could use the
expression, " that they turn not again to cover the earth."

Traditionary details are very different from the memory of a
surprizing fact. Though there may be eiTor as to time and circum-
stances, the bare naked event may be true to a certain extent.

It hath been shewn, that all nations of antiquity were possessed
of the idea that this globe had originally been submersed in water—
and in my opinion it is a much more satisfactory solution, for the
strata of marine productions found beneath the present surface of
the land, at considerable distances from the mearings of the proud
waves of the sea, and on the summits of the highest mountains,
than the whimsical conceit of an universal deluge — a conceit ren-
dered altogether incredible, by reason of the mqtive assigned to a
spirit of good- incompatible with the ideas the mind forms of a
being of infinite power, justice, and mercy.

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than that they raised up buildings durable, on the places where the
tents of Ardfear, and the chiefs of the Scythians had stood. Here
again I must request your attention to the Book of Genesis, where
mention is made of this event — of building the city and tower of
Ba-bel, which affords ample proof of the true character of Hebrew
tales, wherein we have a striking instance of the truth of an occur-
rence, with a perversion of all the facts.

From my respect even to the prejudices of men, I will forbear
from speaking of the language in which the author of Genesis hath
delivered himself, and shall content myself with relating briefly
the historical fact.

I take the person called by Eolus, Ardfear, and Naoi, Noe of
the Hebrews, to have been chief of the Scythians, at the time of
the invasion of Mesopotamia by Eis-Soir, whose chief was Bel or
Nimrod, who put Noe to flight to Ardmenia, established the Assy-
rian empire, builded Ba-Bel, and put an end to the tribute under
which Asia had been to the Scythians for 1 500 years preceding, as
is fully shewn in the dissertation.

If you will look on the 11th chapter of Genesis, you must per-
ceive that the few words recording the event of a permanent build-
ing, (a novel sight to the Scythians, who had always dwelled in
tents) were not meant for any thing more than to perpetuate the
the memory of that, to them, surprizing work. If you examine
the Hebrew account with an historic eye, you see nothing but con-
fusion, and untruths. According to it, an hundred years had
elapsed from what is called a deluge, til! the foundation of B:-Bel;
according to it, Noe and all his family were journeying J'rom the
east, when they found a plain in the land of Shinar — no mention
made in all that time, of his having quitted Ardmenia in the north-
west ; according to it, Noe and all his family, who were Scythians,
were the founders of Ba-Bel, and not the Assyrians, who, by the
concurrent testimony of all the world, were the people who invaded
the Scythians, overthrew them, put an end to the tribute of Asia,
and established their empire on the plains of Shinar, where they
builded the tower and city of Ba-Bel ; but which, according to the
Hebrew account, they left otF from building— which is not the fact ;
according to it, the supreme Being, displeased at their presump-
tion, miraculously confounded the language of all those concerned in
this work, so that they could not understand one another's speech,
which literally, or figuratively, could not have been. The plain and

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naked fact being, that Bel, chief of an eastern people, was a
mighty warrior, and having subdued one nation after another,
made use of the vanquished, after the manner of all conquerors,
as instruments for further conquest ; and with this multitudinous
host, composed of divers people, distinct one from another, in
those days when communities were small, living under separate
jurisdictions, speaking languages differing one from another, did
invade and overthrow the Sct/ihians, and did actually build the
city and tower of Ba-Bef, in the prosecution of which work there
must have been considerable confusion, and no small difficulty, by
reason of the various languages of- the artificers employed therein.
In fine.

You will please to remark, that even supposing Moses was the
author of Genesis, he wrote not more than four score years before
Eolus, and seven hundred years aftep this supposed event of a
deluge — that both were Scijlhians — and as both accounts are now
before you, it is for you to examine them, and to decide.

(e) These obtained the name of Nomades, as explained in the dis-
sertation.

{j) This people had a peculiar respect for the number 9.

(A) Naoi is the Scyihic word for a ship, by which name we call
Ard-fear, because of his escape to Ard-mionn by means of a boat,
called by the translators of the Bible an ark.

CHAP. II.

From the Death of Ardfear to the Commencement
of the reign of Glass in Ib-er, a space of 263
rings.

The Reign of IAT-FOTH.

And Macaar the son of Ardfear was chosen in
the place of his father, and he was called latfoth^
the first of the race of Ahsal chosen to rule in Ard-
mionn — the foundation of the children of Ardfear
in that land, (a)

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And lat-foth died, having ruled two score rings
and one.

The Reign of OG.

Now all the sons of lat-foth casted lots amongst
themselves, to know who should sit in the place of
his father, and the lot was to the eldest.

But when the heads of the people heard what the
sons of lat-foth had done, they cryed out with one
voice, we will choose from amongst the race of Ard-
feaVi him who shall rule.

And all the sons of lat-foth, five sons, and all the
heads of the Gaal were gathered together on the
mount, even the heap beneath which lieth A rdfear
the son of Am-laoc, of the race of Absail;

And they choose Og the youngest of all the sons
of latfoth to rule the land. (6)

And the eldest said unto Og in the hearing of
their brethren, and of the children of the land,

" Let me depart, T pray thee, from Ard-mionn, and
take with me a company, such as may be willing to
go also — the land is too narrow for the multitude."

And the words were pleasing in the ear of Og, and
when all things were prepared, Og made a great
feast for his brother, and his companions.

And every one presented gifts unto them, arms
and clothes in abundance — no damsels took they, for
they said, we will join ourselves unto the maidens of
the land, whither we may go. (c)

And they took their departure, lat-ban — and Og-
eag-eis, from Ard-mionn, moving westward, what
time Baal had entered the threshold of his house
Tion-scnad Qg — having ruled two rings, (d)

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And Og assembled the warriors, and he went out
before them, and he returned with victory, extend-
ing his limits on every side ;

And Og pierced towards the fingers of BaaL
even unto Gahacasan, and he drave the Gaol of
these lands over the mountains that'ran iron red hot,
and that Gaal trod upon burning coals, from before
the face of Og and the Nomades of Ard-mionn. {e)

And Og became famous, a man of renown, and
nations are called by his name, {f)

And he died having his rings marked, one score
and seven rings.

And the marks from Og-into Dorcasite nine score
and eleven rings.

DORCA.

In the days of Dorca the Nomaden filled all the
land, between Eis-amhan, and Eri-cean.

And when he had ruled four rings he placed Glas
his brother over the land of Tu-bhal, calling it
Iber. (g)

In these days multitudes of the Gaal, passed over
the summits of Gaba-Casan. On the far side whereof
they did raise up their tents, and abided thereon,
calling the lands of their dwelling lath-sciot in
memory of our race, (h)

NOTES TO CHAPTER 11.

(c) This 'person is incontestably Japhelh of the Hebrews, the
son of Noe, as explained in the dissertation.

{b) Og means young.

(c) Jat-ban is the Javan of the Hebrews, and means the " emi-
grator ;" and Og-ca^-eis means " the diminution of the multitude of

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Og •" the term, and every thing appertaining thereunto, is fully
elucidated in the dissertation.

(rf) See the ring of Baal.

(c) The event here related by Eolut, proves the fidelity of the
traditions preserved by this people, and shews the cause of the
name of the vast mountains of Gaba-Casan. Edus says, Og drove
the Gaal of these lands over the mountains, that ran iron red hot,
an expression which, without explanation, wears an appearance of
the marvellous, and of ridiculous bombast, and must have for ever
remained liable to the charge, but for the testimony of an eye wit-
ness within a century past, of a curious ceremony performed by
the Ceann, and chiefs of two tribes of Mungalian Tartars, described
as follows : —

" The original founders of the Tartarian Mungalian Scythians,
" called Cajan and Docos, got embarrassed amongst these moun-
" tains, then uninhabited ; after a sojourn there of 450 years, be-
" come so numerous, as to require other settlements, they were at
'• a loss to find a passage thro' the mountains, when a smith point-
" ing out to them a place, very rich in iron ore, advised them to
" make great fires there, by which means the ore melted, and a
" broad passage was opened for them. In commemoration of which
" famous inarch, the Mongiib to this day celebrate an annual feast,
" and observe the ceremony of heating a piece of iron red hot, on
" which the Ceann strikes one blow with a hammer, and all the per-
" sons of quality do the same after him."

This narration marks the date of the emigration of the Mungal
Tartar tribes of Cejan and Docos, to the north of Caticasus, and
stamps sterling value on our language, which gives the. name of
Gaba Casan to these mountains, the literal meaning of which is,
the " Smith's path," in allusion to this very circumstance of the
passage being effected by means of a smith, the memory of which,
as appears from this author, is still preserved by the posterity of
these two tribes.

In one instance the author has committed an error ; the Tartars
are no more Scythians, than the Fins are Japanese.

(/) This celebrated chief is the person erroneously called by the
translators of the Bible, Gog. This son of lat-foth, whose true
name was Og, was a conqueror, who, as Eolus saith, made himself
famous, nations being called by his name, which name was Mag-og,
pronounced Mnh-og—the plains of Og, which the Romans (adding

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ia, their emendation according to their taste of the original Scythian
word tat, which signifies a region or country) called the land Mag
Og-ia, in which were originally included all the nations from St/ria
to Caucasus, and between the Euxine and Hpcanian seas.

If you look at the 38th chapter of Ezehiel, you will see that he
was perfectly acquainted with the true name of this prince, and the
country bearing his name, and that the error hath been in the
translator.

V. 2. In denouncing the vengeance of his God on the children
of Meshech, and of Tubal, which is Iber, he says. Son of Man
set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of
Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, which should be
thus rendered, " Set thy face against Og of Mag-og ;" so all thro
this chapter.

And it is evident that Ezekiel knew the distinction between the
man and the country.

6. And I will send a fire on Mag-og, and amongst them that
dwell carelessly in the isles.

11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto
Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers,
on the east of the sea, and it shall stop the noses of the passengers,
and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude, and they
shall call it the valley of " Hamon Gog," which in the Hebrew lan-
guage means the multitude of Gog ; and the words Amaon-Og
hath precisely the same signification in the language of Eri.

(g) The children of Israel adhered always to its more ancient
name, which had been the land of Tubhal, till our tribe occupied
it, and called it Ib-er, the Ib-er-ia of the Romans, from which our
tribe is invariably called the Goal of Sciot of Ib'Cr.

(h) These are the Scythians who assumed the names of Goths
Getae, Daci, &c,, as fully explained by the dissertation.

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CHAPTER III.

From the commencement of G-la.s, first Chief of Ib-^b.,
of the race ©/"Ard-fear, in 1950, to Cealgac the
9on of Daire— a space of Four hundred two score
arid eighteen rings.

GLAS.

And Glas was placed in Ib-er io rule that land,
and he sat on the seat of the Chief for the course of
seventeen rings, and died, {a)
FILE.

And File his son was chosen, and Dorca died in
Ard-mionn, and Lonrac his son thought to put File
and the children of Ih-er under tribute.

And File put words into the mouth of the mes-
senger, and these were the words :

" The men of Ib-er will no tribute pay
" Should Lonrac hither come,
" The way is far, and perhaps — "

And Lonrac abided in Ard-mionn.

And File died, having the days of his rings
marked — one score rings and three.

From the day on which File ceased, till Daire
was chosen, the time marked is three hundred four
score and sixteen rings.

DAIRE.

In these days the Gaal filled all the lands between
Eis-amhan, and Eri-ceann, and they excelled all peo-
ple in the use of the bow. (h)

And they extended their borders behind them,
and southward, and they became expert in working

or EOLUs, 21

in the bowels of the earth, and forging of swords, and
forming vessels of brass, (c)

And they moved on the waters of Eri-ceann with
the works of their hands, and their brethren oi Ard-
mionn opened their arms to them, and hindered them
not to pass through the land, whither they listed.

And the Gaal of Ih-er encreased, and they spread
themselves northward over the bosoms of Ailb-bin —
and dwelt in that land, (d)

And Daire died, having ruled one score and two
rings ; not one of the chiefs of Ih-er equalled Daire
in comliness of person, strength of body, or manner
of using the arms of war, save only the mighty Og
of'Mag-Og.

NOTES TO CHAPTER III

(a) Glas WHS the first chief of Iber, of the race of Ardfear ;
the history of Ardmionn ends here, henceforward Eolus speaks of
the Gaal of Ib-er only.

(6) From their adroitness m the use of the bow, this Gaal de-
rived the name of " Sciol," our word for an arrow ; therefore is
the tribe whose history is now under consideration, invariably
called " Gaal Iqf Scioi of Ib-Er." That they did excel in the use
of the bow, can be collected from Ezekiel, who speaking of them,
in howling against Tubal, which is Ib-Er, says,

C. SQ, V. 3, And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and
will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

(c) And that they were expert in forming vessels of brass curious-
ly, may also be understood from Ezekiel, who in enumerating the
people in commerce with Tyre, says of Tubal, which is Ib-er, one
of them,

C. 27, V. 13, " Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy mer-
chants, they traded the persons of men, and vessels of brass in thy
market."

When Eohis saiyB they extended their borders behind them, is
meant to the westward, the east, or first appearance of Baal being
always considered as before us, which expression is still used by us.

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their children, at this day. The land spoken of is Colg, Colchis of
the Romans, whence our fathers had brass, of which these vessels
spoken of by Eolus, and by Ezekiel, were manufactured, and
whence they also procured swords, for which reason Colg is the
word by which we call a sword ; and all the surrounding nations
having had swords from the forges of that country, it obtained the
name of Colg generally.

{d) Ailb-bin, the literal signification of which is a confused heap
of heights, so called from its appearance ; what proves the accuracy
of our language in description, the posterity of this same people
gave the same name two thousand six hundred years afterwards, to
the western part of the country now called Scotland, for the same
reason. The country was called Alban-ia by the Romans.

CHAPTER IV.

Froni the election o/'Cealgac, 1492 before Christ, till
the arrival of a Colony of the Gaal of Sciotof
Ib-er in Gael-ag, and the death of Calma, a space
of seventeen rings.

JN OW the heads of the people assembled to chuse
him that should rule the land in the place of Daire ;

And when they were together on the hill of
Tohrad («) — their hearts cleaving to Calma the son
Daire.

Did not Cealgac surround the mount with chosen
bands, mad with strong drink — seduced to rise up
against the chiefs ? and did not these proclaim
Cealgac with uproar ?

Thus was Cealgac chosen, — and he sought Calma
to slay him, for he was jealous of the love of the
people to him ward.

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And Calma spake unto his brother, and he said,

" Cealgac, we be brethren of one father, from
the same womb came we into the presence of Baal,
the same paps suckled us twain.

" If thou wilt promise in the hearing of the people
to rule thy hitherto ungoverned passions, to call
around thee the brave and virtuous, and to turn thy
back upon the coward, the vicious, and the sluggard,
and to respect justice,

"Let C^a/gac keep his seat, Ca/»i« will depart from
Ib-er of his fathers, and let those who will follow
Calmay be with him." ^

And the words were pleasing in the ear of Cealgac,
and it was so. And Calma tarried yet one ring in
Ib-er, and he chose out nine times nine youths, and
each of those chose nine, all of the Gaal of Sciot of
Ib-er, and of every nine, one took unto him a damsel
openly, (b)

And each youth had his sword and buckler, his
Crann-Tu'bail, his bow and his quiver full of arrows.

Many were they who would have followed Calma,
but he stayed them — they listened unto his voice,
though reluctantly.

And in the moon Sgith, (c) when Baal had re-
freshed his strength, Calma and his company took
their departure from the land of their fathers.

And Calma said, " We will go to the land of Aoi-
mag, to get tidings of our brethren, captivated now
eleven rings passed, and sold in Sgadan of Aoi-
mag, {(T) with Cuir, under whose eye Calma was
reared up."

And on the 7th day at eve, as they lay by their
tents on the bank of a clear stream of a brook, that

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watereth that land, as they lifted up their eyes to-
wards Ib-er, lo ! a troop of men with damsels moved
towards them ;

And as they drew nigh, did they not behold Ro'n-
ard the brother of Calma, and with him nine times
nine youths, all armed, and with them nine damsels ;
and the night was spent in dancing, and exceeding joy.

And on the morrow as Calma was about to proceed
on his way,

Rotn-ard said unto him ; " Calma, my brother,
didst thou think that Ro'n-ard could abide even in
Ib-er after thee^ He hath hither come to be the
partner of thy afflictions, should thy way prove ad-
verse, or to be a joyful witness of thy prosperity —
Ro'n-ard will attend the steps of Calma, Calma will
not reject his brother.

" Ron-ard would rather bear a portion of the sor-
rows of C«/m« amongst strangers, — if sorrow is before
him than hear the voiceof the rest of his kindred in
Ih-er Calma far away."

And the words of Ro'n-ard were delightful in the
ear of Calma, and the whole host shouted for joy,
v/hen it was told unto them that they were not to be
separated ;

And they struck their tents, and moved towards
SgaduiL And there they made enquiry for the
children of their race, and it was told unto them, that
they had been taken to the right side of the sea, over
which looketh Sgadan queen of ships, and Nargal
was chief of Aoi-mag at that time.

And Nargal spake kindly unto Calma, howbeit
he meant deceitfully, and thought to make the Gaal
his servants.

OF EOLUS. 25

But the children of Ih-er had their right hands on
their swords, their hearts were stout, — not to be
dismayed.

And Calma agreed with servants of Nargal for a
price, to have him, and his companions conveyed to
the land, whither those of the Gaal had been taken,
for Nargal said, " the men you seek are in Eis-feine.'*

And when Calma and Rdn-ard heard the words
of Nargal, suspicion entered into their minds, that
his heart was evil towards them.

And they said unto him, " Swear that thou wilt
not deal deceitfully with us, we wiH pay thy people
the price named, — what covenant is between our
brethren and thee we know not, between thee and us
no covenant shall be, whither soever we go, we will
live free," ( e )

And Nargal swore by the sun, moon, and all the
stars.

And whilst the Gaal tarried in Sgadan, Nargal
took delight in listening to the tales of other times,
from the lips oi Feitam, the words of whose mouth
were sweet. {/)

And fain would he have had him abide in Sgadan,
that he may be taught to set down his words on tables
to endure for ever, {g)

But Feitam would not be persuaded, howbeit he
promised to return, if it so pleased Calma, and the
way exceeded not the time of one moon.

And Calma and Ro'n-ard gave, and received from
Nargal the hand of friendship, and kindred, and they
took their departure from Sgadan.

And they were carried towards the strength of
Baal, (h) and when they thought to have entered that

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land, lo ! the ships moved as the sun was a going,
nor changed they their course, till they passed
through the flood gates, that divide the world of
water from the world of land, (i)

And the land of Eisfeiiie was close on their right,
after a while they changed their course, steering to-
wards the fingers of Baal, and on the ninth day
afterwards at mid-day they entered this land by the
streams of the great water thereof

And they enquired for Cuir and his companions,
but of them they heard not ;

Themenof JS^5/'^iw^,beyondZ)Martheyare^r5'n^a/,
formed of the Elements of that land at the first; and
of the Gaal of Sciot itself, led thither from time to
time, paying tribute both of them to Nargal \h. the
bowels of the earth, and on the face of the deep, {h)

And the Goal of Ib-er were in streights, and they
joined their heads to Calma and to Ro'n-ard) and
they were all of one mind to die, or live free.

And when the servants of Nargal saw this, they
did declare unto them where the dwellings of their
brethren were to be found.

And Calma turned his face thither-ward, having
the waters of the great river of the land on his right.

And when the host had moved, whilst Baal was
passing through the chambers of his house Fluicim,
they directed their steps towards the fingers of
Baal, till they reached the tents of their race, and
their chief was Dubar, from Gaoi-ata-eolac, {I) he
who conducted the children of Iber, not of the cap-
tivity, but those of the Gaal who went out from
Iber, in the days of Fada, seven score rings gone
by, to that land on the far side of Duor southward ;

OP EOLUS. 27

from hence did Gaoi-ata-eolac conduct them from
Naoi-maid-eisiat, and thereon did they abide, call-
ing their portion Alg-er-ha, after our race. (?«)

From thence went forth Fiallaoc, the son of
Gaoi-ata-eolac, and a company, and they moved on
the waters of the deep to the entrance of Iber
thereinto, and therefrom did they come to land, and
thereon did they abide, calling the land Buaisce. {n)

And Calma and Ro'n-ard were reverenced by
Duhar and the Gaal of Iber within Buaisce^ for
Dubar was not of the race of Ardfear.

And Calma and his companions were provided
with all things needful unto them by their brethren,
and they sojourned with them, till Baal entered his
house Tionnscnad.

And Calma took Min, the daughter of Dubar,
and the Gaal of Sciot spread themselves towards
the sun's going, and here did they raise up their
tents; calling their land Gael-ag. (o)

And Calma ruled over the Gaal in Gael-ag for
the course- of fifteen rings, and he died.

And his heap was raised nigh unto the mount of
the great congregation of the children of the land, {jd)
and all Gael-ag mourned, for that Calma was no
more.

NOTES TO CHAPTER IV.

(a) Tobrad is " election ;" it has been corrupted into " Tarah."
(6) The land of Ib-er had been called the land of Tubal origi-
nally, by which name the Hebrew writers invariably continued
to call it. " Cran Tubail" means " a sling," literally " the staff of
Tubal," a circumstance that proves the correctness of these records,
and the value of the chronicles of the Hebrews.
(c) See the ring of Baal.

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(d) Sgaddn means, in the language of £r», the fish herring,
called by the translators of the Bible Zidon, and by the Romans
Sydon, which letter z, in the one, and y in the other, shewg
that the original Phenician word had a harsh sound, as Sgaddn .
the reason of which name for this place, was, according to Tragus
Pompeiux, and other ancients, because of the immense quantity of
fish that frequented that quarter, and the only kind of fish that are
known to come in shoals nigh unto the shore, are herring, pilchers,
and sprats.

(e) Here we find the people of Ib-er and of Aoimag using the
same mode of adjuration, which shews that they were of the same
origin.

(f) And of the same language by this expression, for how could
Nargal take delight in the tales of Feitam, if he did not under-
stand his speech >

(g) By this is meant the art of writing.
(A) The south.

(t) This people always spoke of two worlds— one of water, the
other of land.

(i) See the Glossary and the Dissertation.

(Z) This proves that the country had been colonized by the peo-
ple of Aoiinag, and occupied long before Egyptians, Grecians, or
Romans knew of.

(ffi) This brief notice directs enquiry to the origin of those of the
children of Ib-er, who emigrated from Ib-er to Afric, and from
thence to Spain. Here we find a tribe in Algerba, and a tribe
seated on the river Ib-er, extending their limits to the Pyrenees,
and the ocean, their portion called Buas-ce, both acknowledged by
the Gaal of Sciot of Ib-er, as brethren of the same race, speaking
the same language with them, as you will see by the Dissertation.

(n) See the Glossary.

(o) See the Glossary.

{p) The expression in the original is " Bri-telgneol-duine," fully
explained in the Dissertation.

From the account here delivered, it appears that the Gaal of
Sciot of Ib-er found a Gaal of Ib-r in Algerba and Biscay, on their
arrival, who were part of a colony that had emigrated from Iber to
Afric one hundred and forty years before this time, and had been
conducted from Afric to the peninsula of Europe by Gaoth-ata-
€olac, who was not of the race of ruling chiefs, which accounts for

OF EOLUS. 29

the respect in which the tribe of Ibcr within Biias-ce, held the chiefs
of the Goal of Sciot, now settled in Gaelag, all the circumstances
of which colony have been laid before you in the prefixed Disser-
tation.

CHAP. V.

From the Death of Calma, 1475, to the election of
Eolus, a space of 107 rings.

RO'N-ARD.

When Calma ceased, 'Duil his son was a youth,
and lidn-ard the brother of Calma was chosen.

And when Diiil grew to be a man, he journeyed to
the land of Ib-er, and he took a damsel, the daughter
of Failh, the brother of Calma, and of Ro'n-ard, the
name of the damsel had been Carma, but she was
now called Sciofa, and Dinl and Sciota came to
Gael-ag.

And Ro'nard died, having ruled seventeen rings.
DUIL.

And Duil, the son of Calma, was chosen, and he
ruled for the course of one score and eleven rings,
when a great plague swept off Dull, and left not
one of the race of Glas alive save Cier, the son of
Airt, the son of Huil in his first ring.

And the Gaol made a cave for Truag and the
child, and weeds were brought from the sea, and
burnt night and day continually, at the mouth of
the cave, to keep off the infection from Truag and
the child.

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And the child was called Enar, for he was left
alone of all his race in Gael-ag.

And nine of the heads of the people ruled the
land till Enar came to the age, then was he chosen.

And he took a daughter of Bearty chief "of the
Gaol of Ihei'y within Buasce.

And she bare unto him eight sons, and the name
of the first born was Dealta.

And Enar ruled one score and fifteen rings> and
he died.

CHAP VI.

The Reign of Eolus. This is he who wrote all the
foregoing traditions of his race, and now speaks
of his own times, a space of one score and thirteen
rings, from 1368 to 1335 fi^ore Christ.

EOLUS.

JN OW Dalta, the first born of Enar, was not
chosen, Eolus was placed on the seat of his father.

And Eolus, before he was chosen, whilst his
father yet lived, had journeyed to Ih-er of our
fathers, and to the land of Aoimag, to get know-
ledge; and his wish was to go even unto Mag-sean-
ar, {a) the abode of our great fathers, but the diffi-
culties were greater than his desire.

And Eolus tarried one entire ring, and one Ratha
(b) in Sgadan, where he hath learned to set down all
his thoughts in shapes and figures, for the eye of
man.

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I am that Eohifi, the son of Enar, the son of
Airt, of the race of Calma, from Ardfear, who
write down these words, for the instruction of those
that now be, and of those who are yet to come.

To teach man to rule himself, that his reason may
keep his passions in subjection continually, to tell
to the chiefs, and the heads of the Gaal, and to the
Gaal of their race, the renowned of the earth.

And these words have I written, as they have been
repeated from mouth to ear, from generation to
generation, and these times have I noted from the
marks of the rings of Baal, and these words are
true, according to the traditions of man as believed ;
but more correct are the times, being according to
the revolutions of Baal, which cannot err.

Bi^t I, Eolus, have not set down the words said
by the Priests, to have been delivered to the nine
Priests by Baal, from the beginning, because my
understanding cannot give entertainment thereunto ;
my senses admit not the belief, that Baal hath at
any time held talk with one of the children of this
earth.

Afore priests were, have we not heard of the
words spoken by the fathers to their children, as
they listened to their voice, beneath the covering of
the tents, each of his dwelling, ere the congrega-
tions were gathered together, round the habitations
of the priests, {hh)

Then did each father declare unto those descended
from his loins.

Give praise and thanks to Baal, the author of
light and life.

Shed not the blood of thy fellow, without just
cause.

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Take not aught belonging unto another secretly.

Keep falsehood from thy lips — falsehood perverts
justice.

Keep envy from thy heart — envy corrodes the
spirit.

Keep flattery from thy tongue — flattery blinds
the judgment.

Pay respect to thy father, conform thyself unto
his will, be thou a sure prop to his old age.

Love, honor, and cherish thy mother, let thy
hand wait on her eye — thy foot move in obedience
to her voice ; for the first pain that you causest to
her, she was quit for the joy at thy coming forth,
beware of bringing grief to thy mother's heart, the
thought will sting thy spirit in the time to come.

Contend not with thy brother — unity becometh
brethren.

Be loving and protecting unto thy sister

Cherish the widow, nourish the orphan, deprived
of his father, his staff, never more to hear a tender
mother's voice.

Relieve the poor, the needy, and distressed, be
kind, and minister unto the stranger far from the
dwelling of his kindred.

Be merciful to every living creature.

Be watchful to keep thy passions in obedience to
thy reason, in the first place, thereby wilt thou avoid
doing unto another, what thou wouldst not have
another do unto thee.

Preserve the glory of thy race, die, or live free, (c)

What have these things to do with feeding fires,
and looking after portions of the land.

And when Eolus had ruled nine rings, he placed

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Dalta his orother in his seat, and he did go to
Sgadcm, and he did abide there for one ring, and
he did make a covenant with Ramah, chief of th.e
land of Aoimag.

And Ramah did send Olam to abide amongst
the Gaal in Gael-ag, and the teachers of Aoimag
did give knowledge unto the nobles instructing
them to hold talk one with another, from the land
of Aoimag even unto Gael-ag.

Moreover men of Aoi-mag taught the Gael to
form ships, wherein to move on the face of the deep.

And the Gael do help the children of JFeine ; in
the bowels of the earth, in the land of Eisfeine, for
the children of Ib-er were cunning workmen in the
land of their fathers, in searching for brass, {d)

And Eolus did send nine of the sons of Ih-er, even
the most wise of the children of the land, to make
addition to the knowledge they had aforetime.

And the men did return at the set time of three
rings, and Eolus called together the chiefs of the
Gael, to the great congregation, {e) and he spake
unto them saying,

*' Man differeth nothing from the beast of the field,
save in reason, but whereto serveth reason, if it re-
ceiveth not a right direction ?

" Hath man passions in common with all other
animals, which oft consume him, reason instructed
will controul them.

" Teachers are now amongst us — what if a portion,
of the land were assigned to each of the Olam
in divers quarterKS, that they may live free from care,
save that of instructing the youth in the ways of

D

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knowledge. — Gael-ag hath hitherto contained too
few of the wise men of the earth."

And it was so. —

And the Olam had their portions, and they did
cbuse from amongst them one ; Tarlat the son of
Leir, to be Ard-olum.

And Tarlat sware in the presence of the congrei-
gation to guard the writing, which Eolus did place
within his hands, to set, down words of the Gaal,
to keep falsehood therefrom, and to preserve them
during his days.

Now when Eolus had ruled for the course of
eighteen rings, it came to pass that Ramah, chief of
the children of the land of A oi-mag died, and Amrqm
his brother's son took his place. {/)

And Amram sent letters unto Eolus — in this wise
" The children oflber within Eis-/ehie have neglected
to pay their tribute. — Doth Eolus desire that servants
of Amram should go thither, rather than that Eolus
send his servants therewith to Sgadan — so be it."

And Eolus called together all the chiefs, and of
the heads of the people, one from every ninth of the
tents of Gael.

And Tarlat was in his place, and he read aloud
the words of Amram, whereupon a loud murmur ran
through the congregation:

And when the air w^as still, Eolus rose in the midst,
and he did put into the hands of Tarlat, words for
A?nram, and these are they :

" Eolus the son of Enar from Calma of the race
of Ard'fear, chief of the Gael of Sciot of Ib-er,
within Gael-ag unto Amram, chief of Aoimag,

OF EOLFS. 3^5=

" Seven score rings and one have been marked
since Calnia and Ron-ard did hither come with
children of the Gael of Sciot of Iber in ships of
Fei7ie, for a price fixed, and paid, from which time to
this, we have lived free, no mention made of tribute
all these days.

Have we not this land from our fathers, and shall
we not so leave it to our children ?

Gael-ag is not, nor ever was Eisfeine.

When Lonrac thought to put Ih-er under tribute,
did not File answer

" The men of Ib-er will no tribute pay,
" Should Lonrac hither come,
" The way is far, and perhaps" —

So answereth Eolus, and the host of Gael-ag now.

And the words were good.

And the servant of Amram, with the words of
EoIks, and Morlat a chief of Gael-ag, took their
departure for Aoi-mag.

And Morlat returned in due season, with letters
from Amram, saying,

" Eidar, servant of Amram, hath erred, the let-
ters for tribute were for Meorl, chief of the children
of Ih-er in Buas-ce."

Now messengers came from Meorl unto Eolus,
saying, " Amram of Aoi-mag demandeth tribute of
us. The children of Feine are covetous, they are
deceitful ; should we submit unto them, short time
will pass, till the Gaal of Sciot will be afflicted.

Let the men of Ib-er, Naoimaideis, Oigeageis, be
all of one mind, neither Amram, nor all the nations
of the earth, will be able to trouble them."

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And Eolus answered and said, Doth a covenant
stand between you and them ?

And the messenger answered, " Yea, to help them
on the face of the deep, and in the bowels of the
earth within Eis-Feine."

And Eolus said, " Have ye observed these
things ?" And the messenger answered " Yea."

And Eolus said, " Return to the tents of thy
dwellings, and let all the children of all the Gaal of
Ih-e7- be as one man, to resist the oppressor, to live
free, or perish."

And Amram stirred up the nations, their servants
on the far side Duor against Gael-ag, but they were
slow to move.

And the servants of Amram sought occasions to
vex the children of the land of Buas-ce, but after a
while they ceased.

And the Gaal are become of renown — they en-
crease in number, and in knowledge continually.

Eolus saith unto the Olam, " nourish the minds
of the youth, let the glory of Eolus be to leave
his spirit amongst the children of the earth, after
the grossness of which his bulk is composed shall
become part of other substance — or nought — if so
be."

And when Eolus had ruled one score and thirteen
rings, he felt himself feeble, like unto the weakness
of one about to cease, and he sent for his son Don,
and for me TarlaL

And unto Don he said, " If thou shalt be chosen
to sit in the place of thy father, be thou, and in-
struct the Gaal to beware of the devices of the

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children of Feine, they are covetous, they are de-
ceitful, with their lips they give honour to Baal, in
works they have respect for riches only.

My son, — Make use of thy understanding, learn
to depend on thy senses — give not credit to the
words thy ear heareth, till thou shalt have examined
them thoroughly, and be assured reason hath directed
thy judgment; above all, that vanity of thy own
opinion had no part therein.

If thou wilt lay up in thy heart the words that
thy father hath set down, they will be a treasure,
from which thou wilt draw profit continually, and
thereby wilt thou experience felicity ii\ the first de-
gree.

And turning unto me, Tarlat, he said, " Tarlat,
nourish the spirit of the youth, guard the writings
of Eolus, preserve the chronicles of thy days, keep
falsehood therefrom, teach the children of Gael-ag
to practise virtue, and they will be happy."

And these were the last of the words of Eolus
heard by me, Tarlat. Eolus, the wisest of the sons
of Ib-er, his spirit will abide for ever amongst men,
who delight in good, and would shun evil.

And all the children of the land mourned for
Eolus, calling him father, and instructor.

NOTES TO CHAPTEU VI.

(rt) Look at the Dissertation and Glossary.

(6) Ralha means an arch, one quarter of a ring.

{bb) The word in the original is asti, as explained in the Dis-
sertation.

(o) This was the primitive doctrine, before morality was disfi-
gured by impostures and superstition, it forcibly inculcates the

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practice of virtue, exhibited in its native simplicity and loveliness ;
would to heaven it had been suffered to abide.

(d) This is confirmed by Ezekiel, in fact the Hebrews called a
miner Ib-cr.

(e) Britetgneol, in the original means the great congregation —
look at the Dissertation.

(/) Every line of this history proves the intimacy that subsisted
between this tribe and Sydoji. You will bear in mind that the
government of Sydou always spoke of Gaelag and Buasce as if they
belonged to, and were a part of Eisfeine, but that the Gaal of
both lands would not admit it.

To the eighteenth year of Eolus, the writing was his work j
henceforward the history is the compilation of the writings of the
several Aid Olam of Gaelag and Ullad in Eri.

In the language of Eri, Eolus means wi.sdom ; whether he had
his name from his superior understanding, or wisdom hath been
called Eolus from him, I cannot tletermine ; be it as it may, he
was a man of rare endowments.

CHAP. VII

Tlie Reign of Don, tke son of Eolui, a space of
three score and seven rings, from 1335 to 1268.

-And Don was chosen in the place of his father,
and he had ships made by men of Gael^ag, and he
delighted to go therein on the great sea.

And many of the Gaal perished in the ships,
which the waves of the waters overbore to the earth
beneath. Alas !

When Dmi had ruled for eleven rings, Tarlat
died, and Lotar was chosen Ard-Olam.

In these days came complaint.^ from the men of

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Gaelag, who wrought in the mines in Eis-feine, (a)
that they were captives in the caverns of earth.

And Don was minded to assemble the warriors^
and bring them forth with an high hand, but Eocaid'
one of the race, staid his foot, saying, " Let the
congregation be gatliered together — ^Will the son of
Eolus take upon him such a matter ?"

And the congregation was called, and Engasc, a
chief of Gael-ag, did take a company with him, to
know the truth ; but when the servants of Feme
heard the cause of their coming, they would not
suffer them to abide in that land.

And Don again assembled the congregation, and
he told unto them what had happened, and he gave
into the hands of Lotar words for Ramah, saying,

" How the servants of Ramah have captivated of
the men of Gael-ag, working at a price in the
bowels of the earth within Eis-feine, Engasc, a
chief of Gael-ag, will tell unto Ramah, and when
Engasc shall hear the words of Ramah, then will
he declare unto Ramah, words of Don furthermore."

And Don put words into the mouth of Engasc,
for the ear of Ramah, in such or such a case.

And Engasc took his departure, and he gave the
words of Don, into the hands of Ramah, and when
he read them, he looked confusedly, after a while he
said unto Engasc,

" What, if Ramah should say unto thee, the men
of whom Don speaketh, are servants of Ramah,
they shall not go forth ; what wast thou then to an-
swer from thy master ?"

To which Engasc answering, said,

" From a master hath Engasc nought to say, the

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children of Ib-er having no master ; from Don, and
the chiefs of the Gaal of Sclot of Ih-er, then would
Eiigasc say, Let Ramuh look to himself — Ib-er is
his foe — nothing more nor less was Efigasc, in such
a case, to say."

And Ramah called counsellors unto him, and he
enquired of Engasc, if he had power to make a
covenant.

And Engasc answered, " Nay."

And Ramah said, " Long time shall not pass, ere
one having authority from hence, will be in GaeUag,
to fix a covenant for times to come."

And E?igasc said, " Till then send words by me
now unto thy servants, the children of Ib-er must
not feel the sting of servitude ; no, not while the
eye winketh." (c)

And the words were written, and Engasc returned
with them to Eisfeine.

And Engasc delivered the words of Ramah, and
he speak with the Gael, and he returned to his
place ;

And a covenant was made certain, that the Gaal
should have overseers of Gaelag, and be secure of
returning to their own land, when the time of en-
gagements should expire.

And when Don had ruled one score and fourteen
rings, Lotar died and For was chosen.

Now the minds of the children of Ih-er were evil
towards all the nations of Eisfeine, ui der the do-
minion of Ramah, and in these days strife arose
between them, and the men of Gaelag, and the
Gael had the worst.

And Don sent unto the land of metals saying.

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*' Let all the Gaal whose time is at an end, return
forthwith" — and many returned to Gaelag.

And when tidings thereof reached to Aoi-mag,
Ramah sent a messenger unto Don saying,

" Let not the men of Ib-er use the great sea, is it
not the inheritance of Ramah ? — If Ib-er will float
his ships on the waters of the deep, let him pay
tribute to Ramah, and the chiefs of Aoi-maff for
ever." (cT)

And when the words were repeated in the congre-
gations, all the people cried out as with one voice,

" We will not pay tribute, let no man speak of
such a thing, is there not enough of the world of
land, leave we the world of waters, to the JiUstim,
and the Gaal dwell within their own land, they
enter not into Eisfeine.

And when Don had ruled two score and fifteen
rings, — Ard-fear his first born died — and ere he was
laid beneath his heap died For ; and Min was chosen
Ard-olam : and Min was very aged, he set not down
words on the chronicles, during his days of six
rings, when he died — and Foirnar was chosen.

In these days came messengers from Aoi-mag
with words for Don saying,

" If the men of Ib-er will work in the earth, for
wages fixed, under overseers of their own, — let them
tarry in the strange land, or return to Gael-ag when
they see good.

" Then let the ships of of Gael-ag of a certain size,
float on the face of the deep, only they shall not go
from the land, more than the distance of one day."

So vehement was the desire of Don for ships, he
besought the chiefs, and the heads of the people to

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let it so be — and Don being now very aged, they
were consenting unto his wish.

And the Covenant was made sure.

And Don died, having lived four score and thirteen
rings, and ruled three score and seven thereof.

NOTES TO CHAPTER VII.

(o) It is mentioned by all ancient writers that Spain abounded
■with metals.

(6) The relation of this transaction serves to give us an high
opinion of this tribe — it shews that they had grand ideas of true
liberty — set a just value on freedom, and possessed dignity of senti-
ment to assert their claims, at all hazards,

(c) What a perfect similitude is to be found in the language of
tyranny in all times, and countries.

{d) The mercantile government of Sydon were perfectly ac-
quainted with the value of the carrying trade.

CHAP. VIII.

The reign of Lugad a space of eleven rings from
1268 to 1257.

Lug AD the son of Ardfear, the son oi Lon, was
chosen to sit on the seat of his fathers.

He was skilled in the motions of the lights of
heaven, therefore is he called Re-alt-Cosgrac, he
spent his days in observing the waters of the sea and
of the rivers, and his nights in taking note of the
moon and the stars — always in solitude.

When Lugad had ruled six rings Toirnar died,
and Dol was chosen Ard-olam in his place.

And when eleven rings were complete Lugad

OF EOLUS. 43

went to Ruad-iat, for the men of Gaelag had heard
great tidings of the wise men of that land, (a)

And he took three of the Olam to be in his com-
pany, Cean-mor his brother, being placed on his seat,
till he should return.

But neither Lugad, nor one of the Olam did again
behold the hills of Gaelag having perished by the
pestilence — thus hath all the wisdom of Re-alt-
Cosgrac been lost to the children of this land, (h)

If the spirit oi Re-alt-Cosgrac endureth, it abideth
in Ruad'iat

" The days of his rule are marked, from the day
on which he was chosen, till the time he took his
departure from Gael-ag, eleven rings."

NOTES TO CHAPTER VIII.

(«) Ritad-iut, means the Red land or country ; the land of Edom
has been rendered by the Greeks, Eryihria, as well as Idumea, but
in the colonies of the Phceniciaiis in Lybia, and Spain, it is invari-
ably called by the Romans not Eryihria, but Erythia, the mutation
of the original Phcenician, named Ruad-iat, as in these Chronicles.

{b) You will perceive from divers passages that the idea of the
Olam, and of all those who did not adhere to the dogmas of the
priests, was, — that what they called the spirit, or as is now called
the soul of man, was the portion of intelligence he possessed and
imparted to mankind.

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CHAP. IX.

The reign of Cean-mor, a space of seventeen rings,
from 1257 to 1240.

IjUG A Dhemg no more, Ceaw-mor, his brother,
was chosen, {a)

And as he examined the tent of Lugad, he found
writings.

And Ceanmor sent unto me Dol to come unto
him, and I looked upon the words, and they were
concerning the sun, the moon, and the stars, the
world of land, and the world of waters.

XnACean-mor enquired of me the meaning there-
of, but Dol knew not.

And Cean-mor said, what if three of the Olam
come unto thee, and that ye look upon the writing
carefully.

And Dol called unto him Gol, Feil, and Monad,
to the tent of the chief, and the writings were
brought forth.

The words told of things on which Reali-Cosgrac
had thought, not on what his mind had determined ;
they were thrown confusedly, when set in order^
they did shew his thoughts, and these were the
things that he did think upon.

He thought the earth was not a plain, and that
the world of land did not end at Gael-ag ; if so it
was, the waters would be too mighty, and could not
be contained from spreading over the earth above.

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" As I have stood upon the land," saith he, " and
looked upon the waters of the deep, and seen them
reach unto a certain point, and taken back from
thence into the bosom of the sea, then have I
thought that the earth was not fixed on a foundation,
but was gently wafted now here, then there. Why,
Baal hath not given me wisdom enough to know,
woe is me."

" Have not I raised my tent upon the margin of
the land, where the fresh Duor kisseth Ocean's salt
lips ; have I not watched their amorous dalliance,
and leave taking, constant in meeting at their as-
signed place, save when the moon, proud in her
strength, doth inspirit her favorite son, now par-
taking of her lustiness, to court the nimble streams
more wooingly, and stride a larger limit within the
land, as tho' determined to regain his empire long
time lost ; and then grown pale, her face half hid-
den from the sight of man, do I not note how Ocean
lags, as tho' in coyness, waiting the brisk approach
of comely Duor.

" These things do I observe ; but Lugad lacketh
wisdom to set down the cause ; and doth not Eolus
say — Eolus, the wisest of the sons of man ? " Wis-
dom is a knowledge of the truth" — the truth herein
Lugad cannot tell.

" When earth doth move, if move he doth, where
stoppeth he, till back he swingeth ? Is the great
earth fixed as my little tent ?" Doth not Eolus say,
" Many are the things beyond the reason which man
possesseth." And again, " Many are the things hid-
den from man." Lugad is a son of Eolus, perse-

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vere he must. He will journey to the east, and
hear the words of the wise men of that land, {b)

And when we had set the words in order, and had
pondered on the value thereof, we did stand in the
presence of Cean-mor therewith, and when he did
hear them, he looked amazedly at one now, then on
another, at length he said. What doth Dol think ?

And Dol, speaking for himself, and for the Olam,
answered, " We know not what to think."

And Don, a chief of Gael-ag, who stood nigh unto
Cean-mor, said, " What if the words were put into
the hands of the priests, they belong to Baal."

And Cean-mor said, " Nay ;" and he added, " Let
the words be set down on the chronicles for times to
come ;" and he said moreover, " What if Dol would
look upon the writings of the priests, to see if they
speak aught of such like."

And after a while Dol did talk with Sborad, called
the wisest of the priests ; and Sborad did shew unto
Dol of the writings of the priests.

And when Dol did look upon them, he was in
wonder ; if the words of Lugad did declare on what
he did think, his mind always diffident ; not so the
priests, they did speak, nothing in doubt, all the
words appertaining to Baal and the priests, and the
nine laws to the nine priests from the beginning,
Baal speaketh only unto the priests ; let the priests
repeat the words of Baal unto the people, (c)

And Dol did tell all these things in the hearing of
Cean-mor, and he said, " Let all be set down for the
eye of other times," and Dol hath done thereunto.

Peace is with us, the Olam are diligent in instruct-

OP EOLUS. 47

ing the youth, the Gaal encrease exceedingly,
spreading themselves over the land.

Cean-mor ruled for the course of seventeen rings,
then did he cease, his frame consumed \>y a burning
heat.

NOTES ON CHAPTER \X.

(a) Cean-mor, means great head, it is called in modern times,
Kenmore, by the Scots.

(6) This is a curious narrative, what great light Lugad might
have shed on the sciences of Astronomy and Geography, had he
had aid in his untutored researches, or even encouragement in the
prosecution of them.

(c) What an instance we have here of the difference between the
modest doubts of wisdom, and the aiTogant presumption of ignor-
ance.

CHAP. X.

The Reign of Cean-ard the son of Lugad, a space
of one score rings from 1240 to 1220.

CeAN-ARD the youngest of the sons of Lugad
was chosen to rule.

And Eocaid his brother stirred up of the Gaal to
trouble him, and to vex the land, saying,

Why is it that Eocaid hath been set by, what hath
been his transgression in the sight of the children of
the land ?

But Eocaid waited not for an answer to his words,
he gathered together .those who inclined their ears
to listen to his voice.

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And the multitude moved towards the tents of
Cean-ard ere he was aware, howbeit, he escaped to
Cean-Iher.

And thither did he call unto him, all who adhered
to the laws of the Gaol from generation to generation.

And a mighty host stood round Cean-ard the
elected, and many fell off from Cogarrad.

When Eocaid found that he could not prevail, he
and those in his company fled from the presence of
Cean-ard, and passing over Bearna, they abided
on that side of the mountains — calling the land
Eocacdtan.

When Cean-ard had ruled for seven rings, Dol
died, and Gol was chosen Ard-olam.

And when Cean-ard had ruled twelve rings a sore
famine oppressed Gael-ag — than did multitudes of
kine of all sorts perish, and in the ring that next was
forming the Gael was made fewer by one full half.

And when Cean-ard had ruled one score rings
complete, he sickened, and died

Here we have the authentic record of the emigration from Galicia
in Spain, of a colony of Iberian Scythians, to the far side of the
Pyrenees, where they abided between the ocean, the rivers Garonne
and Rhone, and the Pyrenean mountains, calling their country
Escaidlan, the Aquitania of the Romans.

CHAP. XL

TJie Reign of Marcah the son of Cean-ard, a space
of sixteen rings from 1220 to 1204.

jVIaRCAH the son of Cean-ard was chosen to
lule the land, but the land is desolate, full only of

OF EOLUS. 49

grief and lamentations, famine oppresseth, sickness
lieth heavily on the bosom of Gael-ag.

Oh how afflicting to behold the thin congregations,
as they stand feebly round the mounts!

Sore was all the time of sixteen rings that Marcah
ruled, then did he cease, thrown from the back of
his horse, as he was pursuing a deer on Cean-Iber —
his neck strained, that he died on the spot, whereon
he fell. Alas !

CHAP. XII.

The reign of Cuir tJie son of Cean-ard, a space of
one score rings lacking one ring from 1204 to 1185.

CUIR the son of Cean-ard was chosen.

When he had ruled sixteen rings Gol died, and
Miirchad was chosen Ard-olam.

Cuir gave himself up to the chase, and all manner
of sports, and he sent many of the youth to the land
of Aoi-mag, to get knowledge in touching the strings
of the harp.

He taketh more delight in the sound of the voice
of the harp, than in lessons of wisdom from the lips
of the Olam.

After this manner did Cuir pass through a course
of one score rings lacking one, when he died, not so
much oppressed by time, as by a wasteful spending
of it.

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CHAP. XIII.

The Reign of Aod, the son of Marcad, a space of
one score rings and tivo, from 1185 to 1163.

A. OD, the son of Marcad, was chosen to rule in
Gael-ag.

The lessons of the Olam are held at nought, the
I)ards, and the minstrels only are heard ; the priests
give ear unto music continually, the countenance of
the chiefs is turned away from the teachers of wis-
dom— nothing is heard throughout Gael-ag, but the
sound of the harp, the song, and tales of other times,
nought is seen but folly and the dance.

The Olam say the harp, and song, and sweet tale
are precious, yet do they ask, is the knowledge of
wisdom to be neglected ? but our voice is not heard,
() grief

Thus have days and nights passed in Gael-ag,
during the course of one score rings and two, that
Aod hath sat on the seat of the chief

Words other than these Murchad hath not for the
time of A od.

CHAP. XIV

The Reign of Ib-er, the sou of Aod, a space of
four rings, from 1163 to 1159.

^02> having ceased, Ib-er y his son, was chosen.

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In twelve days afterwards, Murcad died, and
Molt was chosen Ard-Olam.

When Ihei' had wasted the time of four rings,
then he fell by the hand of Fnlh.

Is not the secret love of Ih-er and Mhi amongst
the songs of the bards, composed by Alistar, shew-
ing the fall of Ih-er and the fate of Min, the beau-
tiful daughter of Talt and Orta, Min whom Falb,
a chief Gael-ag had taken, {a)

NOTES TO CHAPTER XIV.

{a) The orders of Olam, and bard totiilly distinct, never trenched
on each ether, the former recorded events of importance only, the
latter, composed in verse, and for the most part in terms of mar-
vellous exaggeration for which they did not seek credit, anxious
only for praise of style r.i::l fancy, yet was the tale always founded
on fact.

CHAP. XV.

The Reign of Maol, a space of eighteen rings,
from 1159 to 1141.

JjIa OL, the son of Aod, was chosen in the place
of his brother.

In these days the priests gathered themselves at
Sahreid, and nine of the priests entered into the
presence of Maol, ere they had been sent for, and
they did say by the mouth of Brathar,

" O king, let the priests of Baal chuse from

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amongst them, one to be over his brethren, like
unto the nations of Eis-Feine — yea, like unto the
OlartC

And Maol said, " Let the chiefs, and the heads
of the people be gathered together, and let the
words of Brathar be repeated in the hearing of all
the congregations thro' the land."

And Brathar answered, and said, " The priests
of the most high Baal desire not to hear the voice
of the chiefs, and the heads of the people — If Maol
would speak."

And 3Iaol said, " If the words of the priests are
pleasing unto Baal — so be it."

And Brathar was chosen Ard Cruimtear, after
this manner.

The priests rule in Gael-ag. {a) Have they not por-
tions of the land set out by themselves, in the stead
of offerings, as aforetime, and offerings notwith-
standing. O! shame!

When Maol had been called chief for seventeen
rings, Molt died, and Ner was Ard Olam.

And when one other ring was complete, Maol
died, miserable Maol, unworthy son of Eolm the
renowned.

NOTE TO CHAPTER XV.

(a) The priesthood had been gaining an ascendancy for a long
while, till now in the reign of Maol they made great innovations,
they were not only jealous of the Olam, but it seems as if the priests
of Sydon had commenced somewhere about this time to usurp a
greater share of power than usual, that their example was followed
by those in Eisfcine, subject to Sydon, and now imitated by those
of Gaelag. From all which it is evident that the people of St/don,

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and the Gael of Jber, had one and the same religion, that is fire
worship, and the adoration of Baal, however they may differ . in
ceremony and discipline according to local circumstances.

CHAP. XVI.

The Reign of Ib-er, a space of one score and three
rings, from 1141 to 1118.

ZB-ER, the son of Maol, was chosen.

Great was the difficulty I, Ner, had, to read the
writing of Eolus on that day. Did not all the priests
say aloud, and as with but one voice, " Let not the
words of Eolus be repeated in the ears of the con-
gregation ? Hath not Eolus spoken evil of Baal,
and utterly despised his priests V

But the Gaal would hear the words of the wisest
of the race, and the priests were put to silence in
the face of the people, nevertheless the youth do
not flock to the booths of the Olam, <is aforetime.

Thus Ih-er ruled by the priests for the course of
one score and three rings, when he died, his spirit
quite subdued.

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CHAP. XVII.

The Reign of Bfercad a space of one score and
thirteen rings from 1118 to 1085.

MaRCAD the son of IJ)er was chosen in the
place of his father. His days are spent in idleness.

Do not the priests direct all the steps of Marcad,
save those of the chase over the hills and through the
dales of Gael-ag ?

When Marcad had ruled for the space of nine
rings Ner died, and Sulard was chosen Ard-olam.

The Olam lament the occurrences of all these
days. They say unto the king and unto the chiefs.
Ye decline from the wisdom and the glory of your
race.

O King, O Chiefs of the Gaal of Sciot of Ib-er,
will you not reflect, that the Olam will inscribe a
stain on the leaves of the annals.

May the fire of the spirit of those that are yet to
come be so pure, that the memory of these days will
be weakened, though the 0/«w must never blot out
the words.

What are the things that have happened, and that
even now are passing ?

Have not the priests abandoned Asti (a) near the
mounts ? have they not placed their servants therein ?
are not cams in multitudes heaped up on places
theretofore unknown — are not offerings taken by
force from the Gaal — the priests trooping to the
great congregation of the people only — no one to raise

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a voice against these things save the Olam, but what
avail the words of the Olam ?

After this manner have passed all the days of one
score and thirteen rings that Marcad bore the name
of Kiniir. — O shame !

NOTE TO CHAPTER XVIk

(fl) To understand this it is necessary to inform you, that the
priests assuming an importance unknown to former times, quitted
Aati, (which were their dwelling, nigli unto the Bri-telnge, or fire
vnounts, here and there through the land, where the congregations
always assembled,) placed an inferior order in Asli, and lived on the
portions of the land obtained in lieu of offerings, which nevertiie-
less their servants called Carneac, (from their establishing piles of
small stones in the place of Bri, or mounts of earth,) demanded
and exacted. In short the priests neglected the only duties they
were ordained to perform, lived in idleness, and attended only the
Bri-ielgne-ol, or great congregations, where the chiefs assembled on
great occasions, leaving the office of the priesthood to the Carneac,
and the payment of them to the people, by offerings given up before
for the land which the priests possessed. You will perhaps perceive
a resemblance between the state of the priesthood of Gaelag at this
lime, and that of establishments of the same kind in Christendom
now, with allowance for the different state of society : whilst it is
manifest, that nature, vulgarly so called, more pi'operly the inveter-
ate propensity of mankind to grasp power, and as certainly to make
ill use of it, has ever been the sam© in all ages, and in all countries.

CHAP. XVIII

T/ie liL'igu of Noid a space of nineteen rings from
1085 to 1066.

J^ OID was chosen in the place of his father, he

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lived nineteen rings, numbered amongst the kings
of the Gaal.

Words more than these Sulard hath not to set
down concerning Noid. — O Grief!

CHAP. XIX.

The Reign of Og, a space of one score and one
rings from 1066 to 1045.

jyiOITi being no more, Og his brother, the youngest
of the sons Qi Mar cad was chosen.

When he had sat during four rings Sidard died,
and Feilimid was chosen Ard-olam.

At this time multitudes of the Gaal and many of
the heads of people departed from Gael-ag to Buasce.

And a small colony passed over Bearna, led by
Falh a chief of Gaelag, the son of Fermor the son
of Bo7'b, the son of Mori the son of that Falb who
slew Ih-er the king— all flying from the oppression
of the priests.

Are not the rules of the priests the only laws of
Gael-ag 1 — Is not the spirit of knowledge almost
extinguished ?

Many a time and oft doth Feilimid s^eak in the
ear of Og, repeating to him the words of Eolus.

He seemeth to listen — of what avail is seeming to
a mind in dread ?

Now when Og, had ruled during one score rings
precisely, multitudes from the land of Aoimag (a)
entered Eisfeine,

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And the- Goal of Ih-er opened their arms to them.
Did not the King and the Princes, and the chiefs,
and the Olam, and all the people say — " Did not the
children of Aoimag help our fathers with Calma and
Ronard, though for a recompense, what then?"

Have we not derived knowledge from Feine 1

The children oi Aoimag told of troubles and afflic-
tion within their land.

With them is a knowledge of sweet melody, music
and the dance.

Are not Corabeines amongst their brethren?
wonderful to behold are they.

Deceit and treachery are in the men o^Aoimag, full
of falsehood are the folk of the south country (h), yet
we have not forsaken them now that they are beset
with adversities, far from the voice of their kindred.

Having ruled with the name of King for the space
of one score rings and one ring Og ceased, lamented,
by the priests, and by the priests only.

Feilimid grieves to set down the words, but hath
not Feilimid sworn to write truth, and truth only ?

NOTES TO CHAPTER XIX.

(a) At this precise time mentioned in the chronicles, multitudes
from Sydon, and the land of Philistime, fled from David king of
Israel, to Greece, and Spain, as you have seen in the Dissertation,
and the tables of Chronology.

(b) Deas strictly means the right hand, but signifies also the
south ; because we always supposed the face turned towards the
east, where Baal first shewed himself every day, the land here called
Deas, means the land of Fillist-iat, the land of the Philistine, south
of Aoimag, see the Glossary.

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CHAP. XX.

The Reign of Ardfear, a space of fifteen rings, from
1045 to 1030.

]^f OW the day came when the chiefs were together
to choose him that should rule.

And many of the Criiimtear, and of the Carneac,
and a mighty concourse of the Gaal were round
about the mount, nigh unto Asti-ereis ;

When Ardfear, the son of Og, was chosen.

And as T, FeiUmid, opened my mouth, to read the
writings of Eolus, and the chronicles of the Gaal,
a great uproar was raised, and many voices were
heard, saying,

" Down with the Olam, we will not incline our
ears to the writings of Eolus"

When I did hear these words on the hinder part
of me, I hasted from the spot whereon I had stood,
to the side oi Ardfear, and from thence I did speak
aloud to the king, the princes, the chiefs, and to
the Gaal.

And I did remind them of the words I did utter
unto the sun, and moon, and all the stars — " That T
would preserve the writings e'en to the loss of my
life;" for fear was on me that the priests would de-
stroy them altogether.

And I did beseech Ardfear, and the chiefs —

And I did stretch forth my hands to the Gaal,

And T did say, O men of Ih-er, " Hear the words
of Eolus the wise, and good, chief of the Gaal of

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Gael-ag, yet no greater than one of the Gaal in his
own conceit — Eolus, whom the chiefs and the Gaal
called father and instructor.

All whose minds delight in truth and wisdom, all
whose hearts cleave to the laws of Gael-ag, will not
suffer the reading of the words of JEolus, and of
the chronicles of the Gaal to be set aside.

Are there not words amongst the words of the
laws since the days of Eolus, saying,

" At what time the chiefs shall declare who shall
rule in Gael-ag, let the words of Eolus, and of the
chronicles of the Gaal up to that day, be read aloud
by the Ard-Olam in the hearing of the great con-
gregation of the land." (a)

" Doth not the Olam swear that falsehood shall
have no place on the roll ? let then the words be
read aloud, that the assembly may judge of their
truth. Will not the time to reject be, if aught not
true appear therein.

" O Gaal of Sciot of Ih-er, Nomades, Ogeagcis
also, let no tongue seduce you, to turn away your
car from the words of Eolus the renowned.

" O chiefs of Gael-ag, decline not from the ways
of thy fathers.

"O Ardfear, chief of the race, suffer not Eolus,
the fountain of thy blood, to be defiled."

When I had made an end, a loud shout was sent
forth, every tongue of the congregation, save the
tongues of the priests, cried as with one voice —
" Let the words be read, and heard."

Whereupon I bowed myself to the congregation,
and returning to the place of the Ard-Olam, I mised

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my voice, and read aloud the wi^iting of Eohis, and
the words of the chronicles.

And the whole congregation (for all the priests
had departed from the mount) clapped their hands,
and shouted : the words of Eolus sounded in their
ears, as the strings of the harp touched by a deli-
cate hand.

And I lifted up my hands and my eyes towards
the heaven, and I said, " May the spirit of Eolus
be immortal, to abide amongst the children of Ib-er
for ever ;" and the words were repeated by every
tongue.

On this day was a great feast prepared, and the
boards were spread for all, on and round about the
mount, and the day and night were spent in music
and dancing, and the minstrels and skippers of
Aoi-mag ih) made glad the hearts of the children
of Gael-ag.

Now many days had not passed, till I, Feilimid,
stood in the presence of Ardfear, the writing of
Eolus, and the roll of the chronicles in my hand,
and I said unto the chief,

" Great fear hath come over me, least the writings
be stolen away from me ; let therefore Ardfear, a
son of Eolus, guard them, more precious to the
race, than all the riches within the bowels of the
earth."

And Ardfear said, " Of whom art thou affeared ?"

And I answered, " Of the priests."

Ardfear looked amazedly; awhile, he said, "I
will guard them."

And I said, " 'Twere well the secret of where
thou shalt place them be guarded also."

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And he said, " Thou alone shalt know the place:'

And he led me to the tent wherein he doth always
lay, and he did deposit them in a chest therein.

What tho' my mind did grieve to part with them,
yet was it relieved from a heavy weight of care
thereby.

Now doth a dark cloud that hath hung over Gael-
ag since the days of Maol, the son of Aod, seem to
be dispersing — Ardfear cherisheth the Olam — the
youth crowd to the schools.

Now is truth sought after, knowledge is desired,
wisdom is in repute.

Every day is brighter than that which hath gone
before, of eight rings, during which time Ardfear
hath ruled, when on a day he did bid me, Feilimid,
by the mouth oi Lore, one of the tace, to come unto
him.

And when I did stand in the presence of Ard-
fear, Lore, in company of us twain, Ardfear did
enquire of me, what had been the manner of the
priests in the days of Eolus, and why the words of
Eolus were displeasing to the ears of the priests.

And I said, " The reason that the words of Eolus
are displeasing to the ears of the priests, is to be
found in the words themselves : — Eolus would not
suffer their fancies, or worse, to be the laws of the
Gaal.

Attend now, O king, if pleasing unto you.

In the olden time, three chiefs from File, one,
whose name is not told, called Fuil-eac, (c) for he did
slay his father, and two of his brethren, and there-
fore did he sink in the spirit, his bulk decaying
fast.

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His mind did one of the priests, who had the
name of Aislinicac, (d) terrify with the thought, that
he should never cease, but taken be, yet all alive,
into the very jaws of raging JSaal.

And when his mind was thus possessed, this
priest did tell how^ he did speak face to face with
liaal, in a cave within the bosom of vast Gab-a-
casan.

When Baal did say, " The law^s of the Gaal of
Ih-er declare nought of Baal, nor yet of the priests,
his servants, upon earth.

Therefore say thou, Aislinteac, unto the chief
oppressed with grief on every side, thus saith the
mighty Baal.

" What glory hath Baal, when the Gaal say,

" Shed not thy fellow's blood.

" Take not aught of another.

" Utter no falsehood.

" Be merciful.

" It is the command of Baal that he shall be
honored by the lips, and his priests shall be served
by the hands of all the people ; so shall the chief be
released from the judgment of Baal, and be relieved
from the terror of his thoughts."

And then were five laws added, all called the nine
laws to the nine priests, from the beginning, to
which Eolus, the wise and good, would not assent.
Moreover, he did set down all the words of the
fathers of the children of the land, what time priests
were not on the face of the earth, {e)

Therefore do the priests strive to have his words
hidden from the children of the land, calling the

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tricks of Aislinteac, the nine laws of Baal to the
nine Cruimtcar from the beginning.

Eolus did curb the priests, and they were held
within bounds till the days of Maol.

Then did they for the first time choose Aj'd-
Cruimtear, and possessed themselves of portions of
the land, in the stead of offerings ari'ogantly ; and
long while did not pass, till they did appoint ser-
vants under them, who called for offerings first of
all, and till the days of Ardfear, did use to take
by violence from those who gave not. ( /*)

And now have they been taught by those come
from Aoimag, to demand more and more for strange
Ih'es throughout the land.

Thus have they moved step by step, and thus
would they move, if their foot be not stopped, till
thy race would be their servants, and the Gaal in
bondage to them.

And Ardfear said, " What is fitting to be done ?"

Feilimid held his peace, and Lore said, " What
if the people were called together to the mounts of
their dwellings ?" {g)

And Feilimid said, " By that means the people
without direction, would be overborne by the priests.
What, if the great congregation of Gael-ag was as-
sembled to speak of things that have happened, and
to consider of what should be done."

And it was so.

And many were gathered together, and ere they
separated it was appointed thus : Let Lore of the
race, Feilimid A^-d Olam, and Garadan of the heads
of the people of Firol, make enquiry of the numbers
of the Cruimtear and- of the Carneac — how many

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Asti there be, and who dwell therein nigh unto the
mounts — and how many who guard the firfes, in the
lonesome ways of the land.

And it was so.

And we did learn that of Cruimtear, there were
two hundred one score and six, of these tivo score
and sixteen had portions assigned unto them ; one
hundred, one score and seven had appropriated to
themselves lands here and there, by sufferance thro'
fear ; and two score and three had no portions, they
lived with their brethren, and the chiefs, and the
heads of the people.

Again, that over and above the Asti, two score
and sixteen ; and the great congregations of Asti Er-
eis, Asti-er-ce and Er-asti, there are heaps of stones
(nigh unto which are huts, in which dwell Carneac,
subsisting on offerings) — not to be counted for
multitudes, all living in idleness, devouring the sus-
tenance of the Gaal.

These things did we declare to Ardfear.

And he did send messengers thro' all the land,
saying, *' Let all the chiefs, and of the Olam and the
heads of the Gaal one out of every nine, meet on
the mount nigh unto Asti-er-eis out of hand, and let
the Cruimtear come thither, if it so pleaseth them,
whilst the congregation hold talk concerning the
priests, — and of those things which may be thought
fitting to be done."

And when the congregation were on the mount,
there was not so great a multitude together, not since
the days of Eolus — no, not since the Gaal first
touched the land.

And Ardfear rose in the midst, and he did say—

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" Men of Gael-ag, from the days of Calma and
Ro'n-ard to the time of Maol, the Cruimtear were
two-score and sixteen, no Ard-Cruimtear, no Carneac
heard of— these did guard the sacred fires of the Asti,
and they did kindle the flame on the mounts, they did
minister to the wayfaring one, and the stranger far
from his dwelling, for which they received offerings
from the people, freely given.

" Then did Brathar one of the priests, beseech
Maol to permit the priests to chuse an high priest,
then were the offerings surrendered for portions of
the land— and then did the priests appoint servants
under them, who live in the Asti of the mounts,
at this moment, and demand offerings nevertheless
loudly.

" And thus the multitude of Cruimtear are en-
creased to two hundred one score and six Cruimtear,
of which one hundred, one score and seven have
possessed themselves of portions, no partitions made
thereof thereto, and two. score and three are called
Cruimtear, and lack portions in any wise.

" Moreover the heaps of stones called Mounts,
where ol erings are enforced, are not to be counted
for numbers, nigh unto these do Carneac servants
of the Crwm^^«r dwell in poverty, the lotof servitude:

" Therefore if it be your will, what if the numbers
of the Cruimtear be two score and sixteen, as of
old, and two priests and Ard-Cruimtear moreover, to
abide amongst the tents of Asti-Er-eis — Let them
have Ard'Cruimtear, if they desire.

" And two priests at Asti-er-ce — and two priests
at Er-asti and one priest at Sam-vr and four priests
from the rising to the setting of the sun, the range

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of Cean-Iher, from Er-eis even unto Sa-Breid, to
minister to the wayfaring, and the stranger far from
the dwelling of his kindred.

" And two priests at Er-aoi and two priests within
the tents of the Gaal in Fir-ol, where dwell since
days of old, men of renown, to comfort the sea-faring
ones, beset with perils of the great deep.

" And furthermore; one priest at the going forth
of Duor, northward, and one at the going forth of
the waters of Min southward, — and seven other
priests between the Min and the Miranda to light
the fires on Ard-Iber, and on this side, and on that
side thereof, to guide the seaman thro' the darkness
of the night.

" In all nine times nine priests throughout the
land.

And let the priests return to Asti nigh unto the
mounts as aforetime, and if they will have Carneac,
let them pay them their hire, and what if these
things be accomplished, what time one other ring
shall be completed.

" And the two score and sixteen priests shall pre-
serve the fires of the mounts of the congregations,
and mark times, and note seasons, and they shall
lay all the writings before the eye of Ard-Cruimtear,
on the ninth day after Baal shall enter the threshold
of the mansion of his blessed fire in every ring.

" And Ard-Cruimtear shall preserve all the wri-
tings, a memorial for ever."

And Arc^ear added moreover, " Of all the priests,
these only shall accept of an offering, freely given,
who administer to the seaman, and the wayfaring
ones, lonesome in the darkness of the night, when

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Baal shineth not in the chambers of his houses
upon the children of Gael-ag."

And the words of Ardfear were good, and they
were added to the chronicles of the Gaol, laws for
the priests.

Now the priests murmured, their minds'were evil
towards Ardfear, and they loaded his name with
evil report, for they hold him in abhorrence, calling
him Fa-deacf. Nevertheless will Ardfear be re-
membered for truth and mercy, and good deeds, in
times to come.

Now did multitudes from the land of Aoi-mag
pour into Eisfeine, and ships did pass Breo-ccean,
and keep their course due on, turning neither to this
side, nor to that.

And messengers did come from Sgadan to Gael-
agf and to Buas-ce, and the Gaal of Sciot and the
Gael of Buas-ce did make covenant with them.

And divers of the Gaal do enter into ships of
Feine, and do move towards the fingers of Baal, to
the strange land, and they have abided therein.

And the merchants do bring store of precious
things, hidden till now in the caverns of the
earth, ii)

And when Ardfear had ruled for the course of
fourteen rings, the waters of the mighty sea de-
luged the extremity of Breotan, and tore a passage
thro' and thro', leaving many fragments in the midst
of the waters, {h) separated from the land, and
many were they who perished in the depths. Alas !

Now the priests of Gael-ag began to raise loud
their voices against Ardfear, and his mind was
troubled, and his frame wasted till he died, having

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ruled as a chief ought to rule, for the full circuit of
fifteen rings,

NOTES TO CHAPTJIR XX.

(a) The great congregation of Gaelag was at Asti cr-eis, in the
original it is Bri tein-ol duine, altered by the Grecian branch of the
Great Sciot family, to " Prytancum demoi," for the elucidation of
which, see the Dissertation and Glossary.

(b) History makes mention that when the Sydonians emigrated
at this time to Greece, the islands of the Mediterranean and Spain,
casts of men were with them, called Curetes, Cory-bantes Telchines,
and Idcsidactili, for the explanation of which terms see the Glos-
sary.

(c) This event having occm-red long previously to the knowledge
of letters by this Goal, the name of the chief was forgotten, the
epithet Fuileac, bloody, only being remembered.

(J) Aitlinteac means a dreamer, or one who fancies he sees
visions in his sleep, tho' methinks it may with more propriety be
applied to one, who pretends to have communication with spirits of
air, who reveal secrets to them.

(e) As before mentioned in the writing of Eolus.

(/) This reminds us of the sons of Eli in Israel.

{g) The explanation of this passage is. Lore proposed that the
people should meet in the Bri-tetgne, or small congregations
throughout Gael-ag. Feilimid thought it more adviseable, that the
conduct of the priests, the grievance now complained of, should
be submitted to the great congregation Bri-tetgneol, the mount at
Atii-ereis, where the influence of the priests would not be so great^
and the opinions of the more enlightened would prevail,

(h) What a magnificent picture of the hospitality, humanity,
and universal benevolence of the Gaal of Sciot of Ib-er, so deeply
rooted, so cherished, as not to be wliolly eradicated, even up to
these our days.

(i) From hence it appears that the Phanicians were longer ac-
quainted with the mines of CvrnnniU, than has been supposed.

{k) The words " passage thru and thro," is in the original
«* casan-tir-eider," the literal signification of which is, " a path be-
tween the land," and the fragments " separated," is in the original

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"• Scaoilead," pronounced " Scilly," which means a loosin-r, un-
tying, or separation.

Here we have the record as to date, and matter of fact, of the
separation of the rocks of Scilly from the main land of Britain, and
the true signification of the words Cassiterides. and Scilly, the first
of which hath been the subject of so many conjectures amongst
ancients and moderns, some supposing that Cassiterides were the
islands of Britain and Eri, some the isles of Scilly, and Britain ;
whilst others fancied that they were the isles of Scilly only.

Every one knows of mercantile cupidity in all ages, and in all
countries. To such an extent did the Sydonians carry their com-
merce, so tenacious were they of every thing connected therewith,
as to excite the jealousy of all their neighbours, and fell at length
not only unpitied, but detested.

When the Egyptians discovered that the world did not end at
the pillars of Hercules, and became greatly improved in the science
of navigation and astronomy, in consequence of the emigration of
the Edomites fleeing from David and the Israelites into Egypt, the
traders of Sydon dreaded in the Egyptians, rivals likely to deprive
them of their monopolies ; consequently they kept them, and all
the world in ignorance, as far as they could, of the countries from
whence they derived profit, insomuch that on a time the master of
a Phoenician vessel, perceiving that he was watched, and followed
by a Greek, ran his ship ashore, to decoy the other after him
least the place of his destination should be discovered. For the
purpose, therefore, of guarding the secret of these valuable mines,
they applied a name to the place, from which, (being a non-
descript) there was every prospect of effecting their purpose, a
name so much misunderstood, even unto this day, that every
writer who has fallen under my observation, has described the
place as islands, Pliny excepted, who, though speaking in the sin-
gular, exposes his ignorance equally as the others, by adding
" Insula," " Ex Catsiteride insula."

Some have fancied that the name Cassiterides was given to the
place by the Greeks, from the practice of Grecian harlots wearing
Kassiteros, so called, as moderns guess, from Kasis, a harlot. This
is a mere conceit, the truth being the very reverse ; these unfortu-
nate females having had the names of Kassis, from the delight they
took in ornaments of Kassiteros, which derived its name from
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cisely as the English call Porcelain, china, a yellow linen, Nankin,
and all such like, because the articles have been procured at places
bearing their names.

As to Casan-iir-eider the name may be applied to any thing of
land and water that the mind fancies, and as aptly to the Severn
between England and Wales, as to the passage between the land of
England, and the isles of Scilly, and hath been applied to the sea
between Italy and the opposite countries, called " Moir-Eider-iat,"
changed by the Romans to " Mare-Adriat-icum ;" the meaning of
the original words being, the sea between the countries, Italy and
the regions on the opposite shores being separate countries, or
" lat ;" whereas " Tir" means one and the same land.

In fine, Casiti'tir-eider, (to which the Greeks, in conformity
with the genius of their language, adapted the plural Caaiilerides,
fancying, or accrediting the false report of the Phoenicians, that
they were some islands) is a compound of three words of the lan-
guage of Phoenicia, consequently of Eri, of the perfect identity of
which, I trust you are convinced, and of the signification I have
mentioned ; not one island, as Pliny supposed, nor many islands,
as others imagined ; it was a term applied by the Phoenicians to a
place, the situation of which they were anxious to conceal, and
that they were successful, is sufficiently clear, by the many con-
jectures of mankind, and the profound ignorance on the subject
up to the moment of this elucidation.

As to " Scaoilead," a " separation," the > . -y same name hath
been given to various places, similarly situated and circumstanced,
and is the original of Sicily, Ceylon, and every place called Skellig,
and all such as were supposed to be violently disjointed from the
main land, whilst the name being applied to Ceylon, proves that
that island was known to the Phoenicians, it being of the Scythian,
not Hindoo language.

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CHAP. XXL

The Reign of Bille, Prince of Breo-ccean, son of
Marcad, a space of five ringStfrom 1030 to 1025.

A.RDFEAR being no more, by the treachery of
the priests, as said, but not assuredly, Bille the
son of Engasc, the son of Marcad, from Calnta,
was chosen.

And now complaints came from the Goal in
Dunmianac, saying, " The merchants will not per-
mit the children of Ih-er to return home," and Bille
sent Ith his son to enquire thereinto.

And Ith returned in a long time, after he had
been looked for, and he did tell unto his father of
wonders he had seen.

And Bille did send for me Feilimid, to listen
unto the tale of Ith, and he did tell of being driven
by the winds and waves towards the sun's going,
beyond Breotan, upon another foreign land, and he
did tell of the men of that land, and how they fled
from his presence, as the deer fleeth before the
hunter.

And I did remind Bille and Ith of the writing of
Realt Cosgrac. Did he not say, that more of the
world of land was on the left hand of Gael-ag, and
hath not the land of metals been dwelled on by the
Gaal, and now doth not Ith tell of another land,
and strange Gaal 2

And a covenant is made sure for the Gaal with
the Phoenicians of Hamath, and they are content.

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Bille is aged, he curbeth not the priests, never-
theless the youth attend to the lessons of the Olam.

And when Bille had passed through five rings,
Feilimid died, the wisest of all the wise men of
Gael-ag, and Ordac was chosen in his place.

And in one moon afterwards died Bille also.

Heavy and inactive was Bille, being very old,
but Bille was very just.

CHAP. xxn.

The Reign of Eocaid, a space of seventeen rings.

^OW Eocaid, the son of Bille, was chosen in the
place of his father, whereupon the priests of Gael-
ag, and the children of Feine, that had entered the
land in the days of Og, the son of Marcad, did
hold talk one with another, and the priests did say
unto those of Aoimag,

" Are ye not as of the Gaal of Ih-er, and should
ye not have portions of the land ?"

For Bille was aged all the days he sat on the seat
of the chief, and the priests were unruly, by reason
of his negligence.

Now when Eocaid found that they were drawing
all the children of Feine unto them, even against
Eocaid, he assembled the chiefs, and the heads of
the people, and he told unto them the sayings and
the doings of the priests of Gael-ag, and of the men
of Eisfeine.

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And when he had spoken of these things, he
added, moreover, "What if all those of Aoimag
depart from the tents of the Gaal, what time Baal
shall have passed thro' two Ratha in his course ?"

And it was so.

And priests of Gael<ig and the Fillistim spread
themselves thro' the nations of Eisfeine, and they
did stir them up against the children of Tb-er

And they did work craftily, for ere that Eocaid
was aware of their designs, they did enter into
Gaelrag, even unto Asti-er-eis.

And Eocaid sent messengers thro' all the land,
and unto the Gaal of Ib-er, within Buas-ce, and
they did come together, after the manner of the
hunter.

And Eocaid led the warriors against the foe, and
they drove the stranger forth of Gael-ag, save those
whom the sword did strike to the earth herein.

When tidings were sent hereof unto lat-r-am, he
did promise to remit the tribute to all the nations o f
Eis'feine for the full space of seven rings, only to
bring the- Gael of Ib-er under subjection ; for lat-
r-am hatli all the nations within Eis-feina under
tribute.

And when these things came to the ears oi Eocaid;
he sent messengers to all the children of Ib-^r to
defend themselves.

And they did gather themselves round Eocaid;
and the priests did now bethink themselves of the
land of their fathers, and they did beseech Eocaid
to pardon their transgressions.

And the warriors did practise themselves in the

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use of the bow, and Cran-Tuhail, and the sword,
for the ways of war were little known unto them.

For six rings the nations on the borders ceased
not to harass the Goal — and they did assemble a
great force, to take off the ships that floated on the
waters of the land, but they did fail therein to their
hurt.

And Eocaid had all the ships worked out of the
rivers, to the inlet of the waters of the salt sea, that
was in the feet of Breo-ccean.

And Eocaid ^\^ say unto Ith^ " Assemble one third
of one Cath my brother, and move thou with them
unto Fir-ol, and set watches over the ocean."

And it was so.

And it came to pass after all the ships had been
gathered together within the arms of the land, that
the seamen of Feine strove to take them off, but the
Gael did draw them within the land, and did defend
them.

And Ith bad, " Let not the fires be lighted on the
heights, looking over the waters of the deep till
ordered."

And it came to pass when Eocaid had ruled for
eight rings all the nations of Eis-feine, that cleaved
unto Aoi-magy poured into the land of Gael-ag
passing over Duor above the place where the streams
of Uillean join themselves thereto.

And Eocaid moved towards the foe, as far as
Samur, there was the host put in array, and the
sword was sheathed not, whilst Baal looked out
upon the Gaal, nor then, till they drove the servants,
of Feiiie forth of the land.

There was not a warrior like unto Eocaid of all

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the chiefs of Ib-er, since the Gaal departed from
Ib-ei- of our fathers.

And when the host assembled after the battle, the
warriors raised Eocaid on their shields, singing and
dancing, calling him Go-Iam the mighty champion,
for where the thickest of the foe was, there was the
hand of Eocaid.

And the priests flocked round Eocaid; and Ard-
Cruimtear said, "If Eocaid would pardon the of-
fences of the priests, led astray by the men of
Filistia"

And Eocaid answered, " Let the priests incline
the hearts of the people to that which is right, let
them enjoy their portions, and seek not the portions
of others.

" The unwholesome savour of the same time tur-
bulance of the priests, like unto the East wind, is
now rectified by the sweetness of their breath, diffus-
ing fragrance, inspiring the children of the land,
with strength, and healthfulness. The priests have
done well in these latter days, all will feel the good
thereof."

Now is Gael-ag like unto the land, of which our
fathers did hear from their fathers, when they did
speak of their land, afore the days of Maol.

Eocaid is the delight of the chiefs, and the heads
of the people, and the Olam and the priests, the
bards, the minstrels, and of all the Gaal of Sciot of
Ib-ei\ — And the Gaal oi Ib-er within Buas-ce and
the brethren of the race on the far side the summits
of Bearna, honor Eocaid the magnanimous.

And now Eocaid did bid unto Ith, " Let the

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fires be lighted on Breo-ccean that the seaman see
his way, maugre the darkness of the night."

Now did messengers come from Beird, cliief of
the Goal in Buas-ce, and from Marcad, chief of
Eocaid-tan, beyond Bearna, saying,

" If Eocaid will gather together the warriors of
Gael-ag, all of the race of Ih-er will be helping
unto him. Shall we abide within our lands, watch-
ing ourselves, till the foe deceitfully spring upon us,
as the cat springeth upon its prey ?"

And Eocaid answered unto the messengers, say-
ing,

" Should the nations of the south country make
preparation to pass over the borders of the Gaal,
let the tongue of him that shall first hear tidings,
tell aloud thereof in the ear of his brethren ; then
let not the bow be unstrung, nor the sword return
to his repose, till we secure peace, by enlarging the
limits of our lands."

Now did complaints come unto Eocaid, that the
servants of Feine did hold the Gaal in captivity in
the caverns of the earth in Dimmianac. »

And when the nations of Eisfeine heard of these
things, and of the messengers that had passed from
Beird and Marcad to Asti-er-eis, they did send to
lat-r-aiii, to save them from the wrath of the
children of Ib-er.

And lat-r-am sent his brother, and a covenant
was made between Eocaid and lat-r-am, and lat-r-
am did promise by the mouth of his brother,

" That he would not detain the Gaal in Bunmia-
7iac, and that he w ould make good the damage done

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by the nations of Eisfeiiie, within the land of
Gael-ag.

Now is there peace on every side, Eocaid is re-
nowned ; hath he not made a name to endure
amongst men for ever ?

Now it came to pass what time Eocaid had ruled
seventeen rings, and ere one Hatha was complete,
a mighty host from the sun's rising, rushed like a
devouring flood, sweeping all nations ; people were
as streams, and brooks and rivers, that swell the
sea to overwhelm the earth.

And the chief of all the nations was Sru, and he
spread his warriors over all the plains of Eisfeine,
and the Gael of Eisfeine from Aoimag, and the
Firgneat, and the Gaal of Buas-ce and Algeirha
called on the name of Eocaid, the victorious, to
lead them against the destroyer.

But nought could prevail against Sru-amac ; ere
the nations of Eisfeine could gather themselves to-
gether, did Si'u overthrow them, and with the rem-
nant that he spared, did he swell his host.

And Eocaid called round him all the chiefs, and
warriors of renown to council, and all were of one
mind to move forth of Gael-ag, to meet the foe.

And when the host of Gael-ag were within the
distance of two days of the waters of the Duor, the
priests did entreat Eocaid to tarry one day at
Samur, that the congregation may purify themselves
in the presence of Baal.

And Eocaid did listen unto the voice of the
priests, and on the next day, as the warriors were
in motion, did not those from the heads of the vale
espy a cloud rising from the earth towards the

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heaven ? And after a while the thousand thousands
of the foemen appeared.

And the priests did again implore Eocaid to move
back to Samur, and there to wait for the foe.

When Eocaid heard the voice of the priests
speaking the words, his anger was kindled against
them, and he said unto me, Ordac,

" Ordac, when thou shalt set down the words of
the priests to Eocaid, and the words of Eocaid unto
the priests, thou wilt say,

" And thus answered Eocaid, the son of Bille,
chief of the Gaal of Sciot of Ih-er, unto the priests,
" I will not go backward, tho' my face were still to-
wards the foeman as I moved. Is Baal . only in
Samur ?"

And Eocaid added moreover, " I thought to
have encumbered Mag-doraid with the weight of
those we sent not for, as it is, as it is, let the words
run from Eocaid thro' the host, " Warriors make
treble the pace of thy feet, and the sound of thy
voice tell Eocaid and Sru stand face to face."

And it was so.

And the battle was fought in all the plains be-
tween Samur and Duor ; Eocaid, and all the chiefs,
and all the Gaal fought, destroying, like a consuming
fire ; but what availeth fire against water ? was not
the fire of Ib-er extinguished by the stormy. waves
of the multitudes of Sru-amac 1

Thousands of the Gaal lay on the earth, and
Eocaid, O woe ! thou fell into the arms of death on
that unhappy day, and three sons of Go-lam, and
chiefs in heaps lay round the weight of Eocaid.

On that day Sru overthrew Ib-er, and all the

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nations of Eisfeine, and he took away captive of the
youth, and drove away a huge prey of the cattle of
the land.

Now is Gael-ag a desert, save of mourners.
Behold Sail), the partner of Go-lam, lamenting her
hero (the most renowned warrior of the race, since
Og the son of lat-fotli) and three sons fallen in the
battle.

Behold widows bewailing their elected.

Behold matrons lamenting their children, and
maidens the youths of their promise, and the
brethren of their fathers board.

On that day, when Baal had entered into the
second chamber of his house Blath, did Eocaid fall,
but not perish ; his spirit will endure, his name will
live in the memory of the children of the land for
ever.

On that day was the pride of the tents of Gael-
ag abased ; when will their heads be raised up, and
their locks, bedecked with garlands, dance to the
sportive music of the winds again ?

Ordac doth take the sim, and moon, and all the
stars to witness, he would rather have fallen, num-
bered with the dead, and he that Ard-Olam then
had been, had set down on the chronicles for the
times to come, " And Go -lam returned with victory
from the battle."

NOTES ON CHAPTER XXII.

This prince of Gael-ag, whose proper name was Eocaid, is in
the tales of the bards known by the name of Go-lam, and is also
the Milesius of Latinity writers of the 15th centuries, from whom
we Irish are ignorantly and absurdly called Milesians ; he reigned,
as you see, from 1025 to 1008, before the christian era, when

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Sesostris, the most ancient and Egyptian Hercules moving thro'
Lybia, and the maritime nations of Afiric, whom he overran, in-
vaded Spain, which he subdued, whereon he imposed tribute,
wherein he introduced idolatry, and erected columns, called the
pillars of Hercules, in Spain and Afric, to perpetuate the memory
of his exploits. The battle of Samur determined the fate of this
people, and produced those events which will appear in the sequel
of these chronicles, my authority for the statement I have laid be-
fore you in the Dissertation, but not the sole authority, the facts
being corroborated by the testimony of other nations.

CHAP. XXIII.

From the fall of Eocaid to the emigration of the
Gaal of Sciot of Iber to Er-i, a space of two
rings from 1008 to 1006.

Five sons of Golam, Marcad, lolar, Daire, JBlat,
and Colba fell not ; they drove back the foe that
came against them.

Now when liaal had withdrawn the light of his
countenance from the land of Gael-ag, Marcad,
lolar, JBlat, and Colba moved towards Asti-Er-eis
with their bands, (they were but fev/, and Sru stood
in the midst of his thousands,) but Daire the son of
Golam loitered with his companions nigh unto the
slain, for words had come unto him, " thy father, and
of his brethren are no more."

And when Baal looked out upon Gael-ag, and
Sru had surveyed the havoc he had made, as tho'
all the Gaal did lay upon the bosom of their mother
earth — he advanced no farther into the land — he

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hastened towards Bearna, sweeping all in the way
of his pouring forth.

And when Sru and his multitudes were no longer
within the range of the view of JDaire and his band,
they did creep to the damp, the sanguined bed,
whereon were lying the hero, and his sons in the
clay cold arms of death :

With step but half assured, quick throbbing hearts,
and with enquiring eyes, one amongst the slain, the
other on the way that Sj-u had moved, and ere the day
was spent unto an end, the weight of Eoacid, and
the three youths, sunk together into everduring ; !3ep,
were on the shoulders of the children of the land.

And they did hasten with their treasure towards
Asti-Er-eis, as tho' they were returning in triumph
from the battle — And so they were — Did not Daire
and his fellows bear down all that stood in the way
of their terrible course ?

And when they appeared within scope of the
watchmen, set to espy the way, that Sru and his
hosts were looked for, words flew from ear to ear to
the tents of Asti-Er-eis, " the foemen are at hand."

And Marcad the first born of the hero requested
the chiefs to assemble the warriors, Marcad was not
yet chosen, and the thin host was together armed for
battle, and the Olam, and the priests, the bards and
the ministrels, and all the daughters of Iber, all of
one mind to die together, or live free.

But when the tidings ran, that they were Daire,
and his companions who were drawing nigh, the
host speeded to meet them, now shouting, now
shrieking — all calling aloud Ci-er, Ci-er — Ci-er the
beloved of Golum, and of the children of the land.

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Words for the eye of man are nought — the sweet
voice of the harp alone can speak the joy that filled
the host, when they beheld Daire, nor their grief
when they cast their eyes on Golam, and the three
youths, — how changed since last we saw their fine
forms, as they strode to the battle sportively.

The general grief was forgotten, none thought but
of the Chief, and as the night passed, all the children
of the land stood in silent sorrow round the mangled
corses of the hero, and his sons.

And what time Baal came forth, the congregation
was in motion, and the weight of those, whose faces
we were never to behold again, were in the shoulders
of children stung with grief

And they were borne the distance of half the day
towards the sun's going, to the land whereon stand
the tents of Ci-er, and there were laid those, who
had been Eocaid the renowned hero, and his three
sons Don, Er-an and Erac, as they fell ; (their bulk
to wit, their spirit will endure to animate men of
other times) mangled shields on their left arms,
blunted swords in their right hands, under one heap.

And Folt Ard-Cruimtear chaunted the death song,
and the congregation raised their voices in loud and
piteous lamentation to the lengthened melancholy of
the harps ;

And 3/(f//«thesonof Do/, a chief of Grt^Z-«^ poured
forth the war song.

And moreover Mata said, " Let this heap be called
Arg-iocd, that it be known for ever where He the
mighty one of the race, and the children of his loins.

Now it was thought on that the land was without
a ruler; what tho' the hearts of all cleaved to Ci-er

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who could have one evil thought of Marcad the first
born?

When words came to the ear of Ci-er, that the
minds of the chiefs were to him ward — and the
assembly were together on the hill of Tohrad, Cier
held up his hand and said aloud,

" Chiefs of the Gaal, What if Marcad sit in the
plac e of his father ?"

And all the chiefs, and all the Gaal that stood
round about the mount, shouted the name of Ci-er
nine times — and the chiefs said with one voice,
" As Ci-er hath said, so be it."

Now Marcad and the chiefs made a journey
thro' the land, Gael-ag was fearful to look upon ;
O Grief!

As tho' Sru had not brought enough affliction
over the children of Iher, Baal now grew terrible,
his wrath was kindled, he sent his fire thro' the land,
the earth was scorched, the herbs were consumed,
men and cattle perished— nor rain, nor yet dew come
on the ground.

Therefore the chiefs, and all the heads of the
people, and Olam, and priests, and Gaal were called
together to the great congregation of the people at
Asti-er-eis to hold talk of times passed, and to think
on what was fitting to be done.

The assembly being together, the high priest
standing in the presence of the king said,

" What if Baal be invoked to cease from his wrath,
and to look down with an eye of pity on the miseries
of Gael-ag ; perhaps the great Disposer will hear,
and grant our supplications."

Whereupon Ith the son of Bille, the brother of

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Golam, the Prince of Breo-ccean, rose and said,
" Chiefs oilh-er Gael of Sciot, Are we worthy of
our race, or have we declined therefrom ? when Eis-
soir came over our great fathers, that they could not
stand against the foe, did they not quit the delight-
ful land, watered by delicious streams, and move to
the hills of ArcUnionn, saying, the lords of the earth
that have been, will not be under tribute, are not the
chilling winds the barren hills of Ard-mionii, and
liberty, preferable even to the warm sun— the rich
plains of Sean-ar calling man by the name of master
after the manner of Eis-sor 1

When Lonrac — what evil spirit of air breathed
the foul thought in Lonrac s mind ? — When JLonrac
spoke of tribute — tribute from one to another of
the race — when Lonrac spoke of tribute, unto File
the son of Glas, since which day the name of Lonrac
hath not been heard but in scorn, by the Gaelo^ Sciot
oi.Iber, even unto this; when Lonrac spoke unto
File the son of Glas of tribute, what answer then did
File make ?

The answer that became a king ;

The men of Iher will no tribute pay,

Should Lonrac '..iJier come, with high hand to take it off';

The way is far, ?.' d perhaps —

When in the time of Eolus the wise, the son of
Feine was feeling artfully his way on errand of like
sort, had not Eolus the words of File repeated unto
Feine' s ear ? And now doth Sru, having darkened
the air with voracious flocks of ravens, gorged witii
the blood, yea, and with the flesh of the children of
the land, as is said, but not as seen, by Ordac, to
write the truth, their bare bones blanching on the

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surface of the earth unburied, send his servants to
take off a prey, calling it tribute, for a master.

Can the warriors of Ib-er stand up against all
these ? So let us stand, if not

The priests do say, " Ah, that Go-lam had listened
to our voice, and measured back his steps e'en to
Sa-imir, then would JBaal have crowned him with
victory, and conducted him in triumph to the tents
of Astl-er-cis.''

And now Ard-Cmimtear saith, " Let us invoke
Baair

Let all the priests of all the nations of the earth
stand on the margin of the Duor, and call on Baal
to suffer the puny stream to impress great ocean,
and force his mighty waves a distance from the land.
Would Baal change — could Baal change — fixed
laws for them ?

Oh that Go-lam had not attended to the voice of
the priests, and loitered on his course, and tarried
e'en that one day at Samur, then had our warriors
passed over the water, and met the foe forth of the
land.

Children of Ib-er hear the words of Ith.

What the' the waters of the vast deep be terrible ;
Is the desolation of water, air, or earth, yea of fire
itself, so frightful to the Gael of Sciot, as the afflic-
tion of slavery ?

Baal himself can destroy but once, so ceaseth
anguish of body and of mind ; the spirit of the vic-
tim then is free as its kindred elements, pure mix-
ture of air and fire.

The body of the captive is wasted in lingering
torture, his form is bent, and with his distorted

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shape is his soul depressed ; like unto the over-^
strained bow, it loses its force, its use is at an end.

Oft hath my ship crossed the world of waters to
Breotan. Upon a time, returning for Gael-ag, after
hearing the complaints of the Gaal, my vessel was
driven out of its course, towards the sun's going,
till we reached a land of woods, a rough land, the
people fled from our presence, tho' we were but
few ; we drank of the waters of that land.

Thither would Ith go, and he will return in time
to shew the thither way to all who prefer dangers to
slavery.

For himself, Ith, the son of Bille, the brother of
Eocaid Go-lam, will cease to live, or he will live
free."

Comforting were the words of Ith unto the chiefs,
and unto the Gaal, and three stout vessels were
made ready, and he chose out seven score youths,
who had not taken damsels, and he steered his
course towards the fingers of Baal.

The distresses of the Gaal encrease continually ;
famine and pestilence are on the foot like unto
Sioram ; desolate is Gael-ag, lonesome is the mount^
the Asti is without the guardian of the sacred fire —
the priests in the Baths on the paths of the land
alone keep their places ; all are doing their endea-
vour to depart when Ith shall return ; all work on
the ships thro' the day ; Marcad and the chiefs
have struck their tents about Asti-eir-eis ; behold
Gael-ag on Breo-ccann, kept in a blaze night and
day, to direct Ith and his companions on their
hither way.

Now when Baal had been two days in the first

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chamber of his house Tionnscnad, and the watch-
men of the ocean saw three ships coming towards
the land, all Gael-ag flocked to the shore to meet
the princes.

And as the ships were moving within the arms of
the land, the air rung with the shouts of the Gaal.

The anchor cast. Lugad, the son of Ith, stood
on the ground before Marcad, I Ordac nigh unto,
when Marcad did say unto Lugad, Wherefore do
we not see Ith ? hath he tarried after thee ? how
fareth Ith ?

Lugad did place his hands upon his breast, his
eyes bent on the earth dejectedly, then pointing to
the vessel, whence he had come forth, he answered
unto Marcad, " Ith is no more ; my father that was,
falleth to pieces within the chamber of the ship."

When the words were heard, a shriek so hideous
issued from the Gael, the air shook in affright, and
trembling, fled nigh unto earth, charged with the
heavy griefs of Gael-ag, he could not mount, bearing
the woeful tidings thro' all the nations of Cine Sciot.

Awhile the weight of Ith was borne to the
land, and laid within the wrapper ; the fires were
lighted, the circle was formed, the night watch set,
and on the morrow it was moved to the place where
his heap was to be raised.

And Ordac, even I, raised the death song, and
the bards, and the matrons, and damsels, and the
harps poured forth their voices to the praise of Ith.
. The death song chaunted, Cier, the son of Go-
lam, poured forth the war song of the prince.

And when the stones were rolled to the entrance
of the house of darkness, Marcad drew his sword

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from the sheath, and he raised it on high, and he
swore by the spirit of Baal.

And all the chiefs of Ib-er, and all the Gaal,
raised their right hands, and swore by the sun, in-
voking the name of Ith.

And all the matrons, and all the maidens, lifted
up both their hands, and they swore by the mooii
and stars ; all swore to go to the land of Ith's
wounds, and take vengeance for his death.

And on the day after the day, whereon Ith was
laid beneath his heap, Marcad had the funeral feast
prepared, and all the chiefs and all the diminished
congregation were bidden to hear the tale of Lugad.

And when all had eaten, and were refreshed, and
as the horns went round, Lugad being seated on
high, near unto the king, Marcad said unto him,

" Let Lugad, if it be pleasing to him, relate the
tale of Ithr

Whereupon Lugad stood up, and spoke aloud,
saying,

" Children of Ib-er, Gaal of Sclot, hear of Ith,
the son of Bille, the brother of Go-lam ;

" Ith saw and felt the affliction of Gael-ag ; Ith
preferred dangers to tribute, death to slavery ; did
he not move on the surface of the vast deep, to a
strange land, to prepare the way for the children of
the Gaal, where they may live, their ears free from
the sound of the voice of a master.

And we passed along towards the fingers oi Baal,
till we saw Breotan we kept clear of Scaoilead ;
into Casad-tir-eider we entered not.

And on the eighth day from the day whereon we
did cease to see Dunmianac, we did espy the land

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we looked for, and we did steer with the land on the
left of us, as we moved for four days, and nights,
then did the waters of the streams bear us to the
shore.

And Itk did set one third of our company to guard
the ships, with the rest did he adventure into the
country, and there are two distinct Gael thereon,
speaking with different tongues, and we did come to
know that those who are the most, are servants unto
those who are the least— moreover, that the masters
are evil in the minds of the servants — and the servants
are inclined towards us — they seemed in joy at our
coming, for they are in bondage.

And Ith enquired for the chief, and after two days,
came some to conduct us to his presence.

And Itk called for^counsel, and it was said, — Why
go farther; have we not seen enough?— let us to our
brethren, and return with them and win the land.

But Ith said, " Nay ; may it not be said we were
affeared. — Let Gol return to the ships, and if we do
not succeed, then Gol speed thou to Gael-ag, and
repeat in Marcad's ear the words of Ith : " Let
Marcad lead the children of Iber hitherward, here
raise up the tents of the 6ra^r-~but 6ro/ entreated to
go on, howbeit, he spoke in vain.

And we passed along for one day warily, and we
spent the night cautiously.

And on the morrow Ith made those who con-
ducted us to know, that he would abide where he
was, till the coming of the chief, and for two days
only, and we tarried there.

And on the second day half spent, we espied a
multitude coming towards us, and as they drew

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nigher unto us, we saw huge clubs in their hands^—
no slings, nor bows had they, nor sharp weapons for
war— and we moved to meet them, notwithstand-
their numbers ; the men were fair to look upon, yea
very fair.

And oftentimes did they mention the name of
Dan-ha and of Dan-an — and the masters did beat
the servants under their feet, in our presence, calling
them Cloden.

Long time had not passed till we saw bands
gathering round about, and some hasting between
us and the ships. — When Ith said, " Let the back-
ward way be kept clear, we be too few."

Now the men of the land raised a loud shout, and
flung stones at us with great force, then we did
uncase our bows, and draw Cran Tuhail forth.

The Gaol were in streights, and we did move
our forces towards the multitude ; and thus for three
days, when our brethren led by Gol, save nine left
with the ships, came towards, clearing the way, fell
in the combat, and lay where they fell. Moreover
Ith my father fell, but not into the arms of death on
that day, and we bore him to his ship.

And I Lugad did not enter my ship, I remained
with my father, and not long while before he ceased,
he did call me to him, and he said,

" Let Marcad lead the Gael to the land of woods,
the servants will be helping unto them to win the
land. Let not Baal in his next day's rest, look down
on the griefs of Iber in Gael-fig^'

And these were the last words of Ith the son of
Bille, the brother of Go-lam the renowned, himself
renowned also.

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And when Lugad had made an end, all repeated
their oath to have vengeance for Itks blood, and
all besought Marcacl to speed their departure.

Now preparations are made thro' Gael-ag, and
what time Baal entered the threshold of the mansion
of his blessed fire, behold on shipboard the clann
of Breo-ccean Gaal of Sciot, of Ibe?', Nomades,
Ogeageis, the memorial of our race, of those who
had escaped the captivity of Sru, and the wrath of
Baal taking their departure from Gael-ag perhaps
for ever, having sojourned here, four hundred and four
score and four rings precisely.

NOTE TO CHAPTER XXIII.

This chapter gives an account of the proceedings of this tribe
after the battle of Samur, which laid all the Peninsula, the present
Spain and Portugal, at the feet of Sesostj-is ; in consequence of
wl.ich, this Gaal or tribe of Iberian Scythians inhabiting Galicia,
determined on abandoning their country, rather than live in sub-
jection, and accordingly Itk, prince of Breo-ccean, took his departure
for the island westward of Breotan, for the purpose of exploring
it, that in case a settlement thereon should be found practicable
the nation might remove thither. The speech of Ith, and the tale
of Lugad, the son of Ith, arc so full that no words are wanting in
explanation. Ith having recommended the emigration to Marcad,
it was put in practice 1006 years before the Christian era, after a
sojouni in GaeUag of 484 years.

THE CONCLUSION OF THE CHRONICLES OF GAELAG.

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