Glun, the knee, a generation, gus an treas glun, to the third generation; (O'Briens and Shawes Dict:) Thus Emir gluin Finn in the Genealogical Table fignifies Emir of the race of Finn: the expreffion is truly Oriental, Gen. 30. V. 3. Go in unto her and the fhall bear upon my knees that I may also have children by her-et parit fuper (*) genua mea.-Targum. Pariat liberos quos. ego excipiam, gremio geftem, fofcam & educem ut meas. Infantes fuper genua collocantur á nutricibus & matribus, gremio tenentur & geftantur (Schindler)-Can this be the explanation of the following verse, Gen. 50. v. 23. Etiam filii Machir, filii Manaffis, nati funt fuper (9014 “) genua Jofeph-Targum. Quare me exceperunt, cum in lucem ederer, genua obftetricis incurvata; ne caderem?

The Irish word Raigh, the arm from the shoulder to the elbow-the thigh from the hip to the knee, has the fame fignification, whence Ruig, peperit, fhe brought forth, Raigh, Raighle gene

,irak and iraka ירכא & ירך ration: this is from

femur, the thigh. Et filii ipforum egredientes
femorum eorum, i. e. e femore eorum.
Cantic. 7.
V. 2.-The fceptre fhall not depart from Judah,
nor a Lawgiver from his ( Ragil) generation,
until (w) Shiloh fhall come. Gen. 49. V. 10.
-Shiloh, the Irish Shiol the Son, i. e. the Meffiah.
The Leabhar Leacain or Liber Lecanus, fays,
that the Genealogies of families from the deluge
to St. Patrick's time, were written on the knees,
(gluinibh) and on the thighs lorgaibh) of men,
and on the holy altars. (Leab. Leac. f. 14.) the
meaning of which is, that the genealogies of the

direct

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

The third Genealogical Table in the Irish 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:

NOAH,
Cham,

Cus,

Fedel,

Peleft,

Ephice,

Uccat,

Sadhal,

Siopurnach,

Starn-fiacla,

Mercell,

Larcogh,

Galam,

Liburn,

Blofst,

Ciolcadh,

Ned,

Eathlan,

Breas.

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

on the Thighs and Arms of the Etruscan Figures ?

CHAP.

J.

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CHA P. II.

AINM EIBER TEACCH 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 discovered it. REMAR K.

A fable it certainly is, as relating to Ireland. The Irish history fays, Adna, fon of Bith, of the family of Nion, first discovered Eirinn, 300 years after the Samothracian flood. See ch. 3.-This woody island was probably one of the Egean Iflands, 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 : Fuid 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 also fignifies the Weft, as Fuin-trath, Occafus vel inclinatio. Solis; it is both a Phenician and a Syrian word, No 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 Ifland.

REMARK.

There is no foundation in hiftory for this name. The first 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 Crete, when Sru, fon of Eafry, was banished from Egypt.

REMARK,

No

Eria was one of the Thracian Illes, 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. thing more can be faid of this derivation, than that the name was common to that part of the globe from whence they originally came. Aoria in Chaldee fignifies the Weft. N

5. FODHLA, fo called from the wife of Mac Ceacht, a King of the Tuatha Dadann, named Mac Ceacht, 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 Fodbla(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 also 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 fhall presently fhew; and as they had a fettlement on the Euphrates named Banbe, not far distant 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 ftone 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 Fodhlama, 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.