14 INTRODUCTION. 



In examining into this part of the subject, recourse must 

 be had to other means of ekicidation than such conjecture, 

 and, in the language of the natives, a criterion is discover- 

 able. This harmless race have an expression for the sun 

 which bears but little resemblance to any term in language 

 hitherto regarded. Succanuk is their term for the luminary 

 that brings them back their fishing months with his presence. 

 In this his retirement southwards, the northern people say, 

 " Succanuck is gone to Succanunga:" by this they de- 

 scribe all the lands where their fisheries are successful. 

 Now through what source a synonyme for Succanunga may 

 be traced to the language of nations very remote from this 

 truly original people may appear matter of interesting 

 speculation. 



A classical reader, familiar with the works of Greek and 

 Roman writers, will recollect that an epithet for the noon- 

 day Apollo, when clad in Latin form, is Grynaeus. Grynaeus 

 Apollo forms an adulatory invocation in the prayer of Eneas, 

 Avho was at once a priest and prince according to the 

 Phrygian mythological system. General Valiancy, who be- 

 stowed much and very extraordinary labour on the subject 

 of antiquities, particularly those referable to eastern origin, 

 has fixed on the word Grian, of Irish or Celtic signification, 

 as it may be received, being epithetically expressive of the 

 strongest power of the sun, which is synonymous among all 

 ancient nations with the Apollo of Grecian mythology. To 



