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inftnunent ; oirpliideadh or oiiridcadh exprelics die iiclion of 

 playing. What people in the world, the Orientali lis and the 

 Irifli excepted, call tlie copy of a book the fon of a booh^ and 

 echo the daughter of a voice f With what northern nation, the 

 Irifh excepted, can the Oriental names of the tools and imple- 

 ments of the flone-cutter, the carpenter, the fliip-builder, the 

 weaver, be found ? And with what people, the old Irilli and 

 Egyptians excepted, docs the word Ogham fignify a book, and 

 the name of Hercules or Mercury * ? Of thefe we propofe to treat 



more 



* Copt. oiii:;hjani. ],lber. Kircher. and Woide. 



Copt, glijam, and with the article, oughjam, Hercules, Ermes, Mercury. 

 The very name Ermes lies concealed in the Irifh compound Ed-almies, i. e. the root, 

 or art of invention. In Arabic •l.jX_l5L^jl yejedaram. And we might add, in 

 what part of the globe, Egypt, Ireland and Scotland excepted, were priefbs or 

 holy perfons denominated Guides or Caldes. Copt. Kaldes. Sanditas. Kircher. 226 

 • — Copt, ouab fanclus. Copt, efouab facerdos, whence the Irifli eafcoh, a blfliop. To 

 thefe we may add fix hundred others, of which in their proper place: But the mod 

 flriking inftance of the intercourfe of the Hiberno-Scythians with the ^Egyptians and 

 riiosnicians, is the prefixes to furnames, O, Ua and Mac ; the former denoting the 

 eldefl; of the family, the fecond being a general name for the fon. O, ftirps, familia ; 

 hence, O Siris. (Kircher. Ling. jEgypt. refti). Mac, uac filius. (Woide) —iix Arabice, 

 major natus (Georgius Cedrenus). Thus the Irifh ufe either O or Ua ; as Ua Con 

 Cobhar, Anglice O Coner, he. &c. Again, Cubhar is the Arabic jJ-S; Kubeer, major, 

 major natus. So the name Cormac is the Arabic f-^.j^^ Kuremac of the fame 

 meaning, major, maximus. nobilis. Chinefe heu. familia. nomen proprium unius 

 familisE Augufl:x. Lucia:i tells us that the Celts named Hercules Ogmios, in their 

 vernacular tongue — verum enimvero nomen illud ("Oyfn©-) (fi quid me fapiat con- 

 jeftura) ortu, Phoeiiiceum eft. formatione Grxcum : atque folummodo ufu, Celticum. 

 (Dickinfon Eaficulus. l. de Hercule jT".gyptio. p. 45. — nam Og, philofophus fonat, 



idem. 



