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** The most surprizing fact of all is, that in the Chronicles 

 of O'Connor,* which is a book almost unknown in Germany, 

 are to be found accordances not to be mistaken. For in- 

 stance, what the Chronicles call aoi-magh, Sanconiathon calls 

 Ma thai. O'Connor says <xo;-nr)(X j, a flat country, or region 

 of plains, and Mathai-Bal is the first king of the Syrian 

 Phoenician plains of Sidon, according to Sanconiathon. His 

 name, therefore, is nothing more than Magd-ai-Bal — and, as 

 in the Chronicles, this aoi-mag is the Sidonian Hamath of the 

 ancients — the same Mathai-Bal of Sanconiathon, who caused 

 to be constructed the fortress of Hamath on the plains, to 

 defend himself against the neighbouring mountaineers. 



*' Maol, in the Chronicles, is the name of one of the kings 

 of the Gael. The same name appears on the famous Lybian 

 stone of Tucca. Sanconiathon places Bi-maol at the head of 

 the kings of Sidon, and his descendants are called O-Christo- 

 bi-malf which is evidently nothing more than cea/ic-o- 

 be-maol. 



"Between 1020 and 1008, B. C, the Chronicles mention 

 JOLC-;i<xm, king of Phoenicia, a conqueror, jealous of the dig- 

 nity of his empire, to whom all the natives of Spain were 

 tributary. At the same period, according to Sanconiathon, 

 there reigned a king of Phoenicia of the same name, Joram — 

 the Hiram of Solomon — and that Joram was not only master 

 of the west, but extended his rule to the Isle of Ceylon. 



" The most interesting portion of all Sanconiathon, is 

 the Phoenician periplous, in which is set forth an enumera- 

 tion of the Phoenician colonies, extending to the Canary 

 Islands, with their sea and land forces, made by order of 

 Joram.'* 



* The Chronicles mentioned by Baron de Donop are the Chronicles by 

 Mr. Roger O'Connor, which are nothing more than a paraphrastic version of the 

 Milesian story. 



