guage; of which tribe or Gaal of Sciot of Iber, the chronicles now presented to you, are the history, compiled from traditions from the earliest point of time noted, to 1370, and from that period, from actual knowledge, by every Ard-Olam, or chief teacher of the nation, whose special provence it was, to record all facts considered worthy of memorial, to the year before 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.

Of the Scythian Tribes in the Isle of Britain,

PART IX.

T is distinctly recorded in the chronicles of Gael-ag, That in 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 unsteady 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 departure from Dun-mianac, and steering their course by sea northward, came to land from the water of Mersey, and established their dominion in the present Lancaster, York, Durham, Westmorland, and Cumberland, calling themselves Breo-ccean-teis, the Brigantes of the Romans.

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

engrossed, the two last of whom were employed by the Phonicians 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 Sciot, of Iber, in Gaelag, and of the Gaal of Iber within Buas-ce and Alger-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 1006 before the christian era.

Having now traced all the tribes of the Scythian race of mankind, who colonized various countries of Europe, from which you are to understand that, of those who occupied from the western shores of Euxine, to the Ister north, to Panonia and Illurike, and to the extremity of Greece, 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 mentioned.

That of the tribes who colonized Italy, those conducted by Enotrus and Evander from Greece, those led by Saturn from Crete, those led by Æneas 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 migrations 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 between the Rha and Tanais, and assumed the name of Goth, were the parents of the Geta and Daci, which last was a subdenomination of the first, applied to their southern position, who advanced westward as far as the waters of Theyss, or Tobiscus, beyond which were the Og-eag-eis of Pancemia.

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

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 Garonne, 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 language of these various tribes.

NOTE TO PART IX.

(a) 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 Phoenicia.

Of all the Nations of Europe, antecedently to the invasions of the Scythians.

PART X.

THE Scythian migrations from Ardmenia, 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 confined; 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 survivors, 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 people who dwelled on the lands westward of the Tanais, at the