5o6 PHILOLOGICAL INQUIRIES. 



The analogy fo vifible in the order of Divine Providence 

 makes it very probable that a rude earth and barbarous 

 men had congenial animals ; and that fome of thefe became 

 extindt in the courfe of moral and phyfical improvement. 

 Works of ancient naturalifts, and popular traditions con- 

 firm this; a true philofopher will not deem the whole fa- 

 bulous, becaufe a part is extravagant. That the hydm in 

 the Lerna-mSiXih. had feven heads is lefs probable ; but that 

 monfters with more than one have exifted is very credible 

 to thofe who know the double headed ferpents of Ame- 

 rica.* The terrible venom of fome ferpents appears in 



their names — Gr. ^pyxf, H. Ch. T^s and ^"^^ are literally 



"■"■' . ' .' 

 burners — H. Ch. J^s^ was named from its poifonous breath 



— fuch are at this time found about lake £/■/>. f All 



Aha and Europe have traditions about the dragon, as a 



huge, 



hiftory of man. The copious derivates from different roots is a further 

 proof that languages were formed on feparate grounds. The fame ancient 

 names for lakes, rivers, &c. in Afia, Europe, America, indicate the early 

 migrations of mankind. Among many ftriking fpecimens are thefe : — C- 

 M. nur, the fea — many lakes with names of nor, in Tartary, &c. from China 

 to tlie Cafpian fea, as kirklr-nor, kp-arall-palcati-nor — many lakes and rivers 

 in Sweden, nora, and nor-i\6 — Nore in Scotland — Po. nora, an engine for 

 drawing water: — Tona, water (American) — P. tonte, to fink: R. ton'ta, a 

 draught of fifli : G. tuncktu^ to dip : S. toiig, reed : Ir. W. tonn, a wave : Ir. 

 lonach, waihing ; tonuog, a water-bird : Ion, tunna. Sec. a water-veflel, in moll 

 European languages : Gr. -S-wvoc, La. /annus, a tunfiili — H tcnger, the fea :• 

 Don the river Tunais : — C. M. go!/, a ftream — F. go/fe ; It. Po. gclfo ; H. golf, 

 a gulph, bay — W. golchi, A. gelxl, to waih — Holland, and Holm-gard, ancient 

 name for a part of Ruffia on the Baltic — E. hohn-o-ak, water oak : — l^.Jl.iaic, 

 to flow down : Slochkolm, means the iffue of waters ; the Mular falls there 

 through two flreams into a bay of the Baltic : — The name of Britain on which 

 fo many conjeiftures have been made, means fimply an ifland ; Gr. ^fia to 

 flow : AS. Go. brym, the fea, hrimflod, a deluge : Go. Ir'ine, fait, foaining : 

 S. brenn'wg, the furf : Po. Irindar, to drink ; F. albreuver, to give drink : brig, 

 a fea velfel, &c. — Gr. ;t^'^N -^-G.ton, Mai. /aw/a, land. 



* That they form a fpecies is probable from their relugar form, and the 

 number obferved, at leaft fix : I have feen two, one in Mr. Peak's Mufeum, 

 ihc other in Tale-College cf Connecticut. 



f They blow with great force a fubtile and naufeous wind, which if drawn 

 in with the breath, brings on a decline that proves mortal in a few months.. 

 Carver's Travels, p. 105. 



