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and county of Kerry, I have seen one, which still preserves the name. 
It is a regularly sloping mount, of considerable dimension at the 
base. On the summit is a Gullan, or obelisk, about twenty feet 
high. A “ cooped heap” is expressed in Hebrew by the compound 
Kiren-nedh. Can one possibly imagine stricter similitudes, in 
names, things, and ceremonies? Almost all nations, I am aware, 
have manifested indications, more or less, of the Jewish customs. I 
am certain, that the ancient religion, laws, customs, and language 
of Ireland come closer to the history of the Hebrews, than those of 
any other Kuropean nation. Irish history records an eastern inter- 
course between our early colonists and that people; and the record 
is fortified by ancient foreign history. It is not now denied, that the 
Pheenicians, and other neighbouring tribes, had penetrated, as early 
as the time of Moses, to the western extremities of Europe, to Spain, 
and to the Britannic Isles, called “ the Tin Isles.” We also know, 
that this ancient maritime people, named in Scripture Canaanites or 
merchants, mixed with the apostate Jews of Syria and Palestine ; 
and that the conquests of Joshua forced the latter and others to seek, 
by the favour of the Phoenician traders, new settlements in Africa 
and the western parts of Kurope. The very name of Canaanite is 
still preserved in the Irish Ceannaidhe, pronounced Canee, a mer- 
chant. What else than Phoenician could be understood by the 
Feine, and the Fenius Fear-siodh, or “ man of wisdom,” so much 
insisted upon in our remotest annals? The likeness, in sound, 
meaning, and construction, between the Irish language and the 
Punic speech of Hanno, in the Penulus of Plantus, has, I think, 
been sufficiently established. In the course of reading, I have met 
the most striking analogies between the ancient Irish and the 
Hebrew people ; so much, that I have been tempted carefully to col- 
lect them, with a view to their publication in a work, I am putting 
