direct line and collateral branches, were engraved on the altars in pagan times. (m)

The third Genealogical Table in the Irifh Hiftory, is that of the Chaldæans, called TuathaDadann, being a colony or tribe of Dedanites, who mixed with our Scuthi, when feated on the Perfian Gulph. As we fhall treat of this people at large in the 6th chapter, we here only fhew the line up to Chus, according to the Irish tables:

(m) Quære. May not this be the origin of those Inscriptions we find

on the Thighs and Arms of the Etrufcan Figures ?

CHAP.

I.

СНАР. II.

AINM EIBERTEACCH N'ANEIRINN.
The Topographical Names of Ireland.

NIS NA FIODHBHAIDH, i. e. a Woody Ifland. It was fo called, fays the ancient fable, by Nion, fon of Pelus, who difcovered it. REMARK.

A fable it certainly is, as relating to Ireland. The Irish history fays, Adna, son of Bith, of the family of Nion, first discovered Eirinn, 300 years after the Samothracian flood. See ch. 3.-This woody ifland was probably one of the Ægean Ilands, fuppofed to have been formed by that flood.

2. CRIOCH NA FUINEACH. The territory of Fuineach, that is, fays Keating, the neighbouring country.

REMARK.

If the author had attended to the original, he would have found a full and proper explanation of the word, viz. obheith a bhfuinead chrioch na tri rann don Domhan: ionan Fuine agus Crioch. Fuin Laidne Finis, i. e. from being the end or extremity of the three divifions of the world: Fuin fignifies End, Extremity, and Crioich Country. Fuine, in Latin finis. There cannot be a fuller or better adapted name for Ibernia, which is the Phænician tranflation of Crioch na Fuineach.

each. Fuin alfo fignifies the Weft, as Fuin-trath, Occafus vel inclinatio Solis; it is both a Phenician and a Syrian word, ND phenia vefper. (Chaldee). Phenia da iuma (Syrian), i. e. the end of the day. Vefpera. Phinicha, (Syr.) finis, terminus; plaga mundi.

3. EALGA; that is, the Noble Island.

REMAR K.

There is no foundation in history for this name. The firft discoverers of the Britannic Isles, would certainly have given that name to Britain, by preeminence. Moft probably this name alludes to their fettling in Elgia, or Elegia, a town and diftrict of Armenia Major.

4. AERI or EIRE, fo called, fay they, from Aeria, the old name of Crete, or from Eria, that part of Egypt from whence the Gadeli came to Grete, when Sru, fon of Eafru, was banifhed from Egypt.

REMARK.

Eria was one of the Thracian Ifles, Eirene one of the Islands of the Peloponnefus; and there were the Eirinai, feated between the mountains of Ceraunii and the river Rha in Sarmatia. Nothing more can be faid of this derivation, than that the name was common to that part of the globe from whence they originally came. in Chaldee fignifies the West.

אוריא.

Aoria

5. FODHLA, fo called from the wife of Mac Ceacht, a King of the Tuatha Dadann, named Mac Geacht, or Feathor.

REMARK.

REMARK.

A more eligible name cannot be given to the wife of a Prince who bears the name of the Son of Science. chacam, Fodhal, or Fodhla(n),fignifies the Graces, les Vertus; it has the fame meaning in Arabic, fee D'Herbelot at Fadhail: hence one of the learned Irish Kings was named Cinn Faodhla na Fodhlama, i. e. the Head of the Learned. He was alfo called Cinn Fadhla Mac Ollam. Fadhail, Les Vertus; c'est le plurier de Fadhilah, i. e. Vertu; hence Fadhel was a common name of the Arabians. See alfo Fodhail in D'Herbelot.

6. BANBA, from the name of a third Queen of the Tuath Dadann, who was the wife of Mac Choll, otherwife called Eathor.

REMARK.

The Dadannites were Chaldeans, as we shall presently fhew; and as they had a fettlement on the Euphrates named Banbe, not far diftant west of Babylon, our Magogians might have poffeffed this place, as it will appear hereafter, that they mixed with thefe Dadannites, the fons of Rhegh

ma.

7. INIS FAIL, or the Island of Destiny; from a ftone that was brought by the Dadannites into Ireland.

REMARK.

Of this stone we have treated in a former Number of the Collectanea, to which we refer, and fhall fhew its origin in the chapter Tuatha Dadann. See alfo Chap. X.

(n) Cinn Faodhla na Fodhlaina, the Chief of the Graces of the earned. Cin Fadhla Mac Ollam. The Chief of the Graces, Son of the Sciences. Arabic alm, ylm. Heb. & Chald. 3 alaph.

8. MUC ISLAND. When the Dadanns found the Milefians attempted to land; by their magical enchantments they threw a cloud on the island, by which it appeared no bigger than a hog's back.Muc is a hog. (Keating.)

REMAR K.

Muc was the name of an Island in Phænicia, and of another in the Perfian Sea; both named by our Magogians, who proceeded from the Perfic Gulph, through Oman to Phænicia of which hereafter. Ut in Phænice duæ fuerunt infulæ magni nominis, Tylus nimirum & Aradus, ita in mari Perfico Tylum & Aradum infulas Geographi defcribunt, atque in iis vetufta templa in Phæniciorum modum extructa: (Bochart, Canaan, p. 689.)—Moch is white; whence Moc-trath, Aurora, Ir. and Mok, Heb. Cotton. Moch is the fame as Alban, (white) and fignifies the dawning of the day, Aurora; hence wakh in Perfic, Aurora. It is evident this name would not have been given to a Western Ifle, or to any of their weftern difcoveries; but most properly in their route Eastward to the mouth of the Perfic Gulph.-Moch is in common ufe at this day to exprefs the dawn of day; matutina iux albefcere cùm primùm oritur; and Tylus was alfo called Muc.

9. SCOTIA. This name is faid to be given it by the fons of Milefius, who named it Scotia, from their mother's name Scota, or perhaps from themselves, they being originally of the Scythian

race.

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