380 On the Affinity of the Phenician and Celtic Languages. 
Betuis, river ; beic, double, probably a double river like the Guadalquiver, or Betis, 
in Spain. This river discharges itself about lat, 23° north. 
Chersonesus.—This name occurs about lat. 24° N. on the coast of Arabia, in the 
Red Sea; but I have sought in vain for a promontory or peninsula answering to the 
meaning of the Greek. I am, therefore, inclined to think, that it is a corruption of a 
Phenician term having a similar sound: probably cojp-ronay, deceitful happiness, like 
our false bay, deceitful promise, treacherous port, of which we have numerous in- 
stances in our own geography. 
Badeo, a town in Arabia, about lat. 22° N.; bare, gratitude, friendship, kindness, 
Sacacia, a town about lat. 21° N.; rare, plenty, abundance ; ace, a leading to. 
The town in a fruitful neighbourhood. 
eli, now Heli, a town in Arabia Felix, lat. 18° N., on the coast : perhaps ajle, per- 
Fume, odour, smell. 
Gasandi, now Ghezan, a town in lat. 14° N.; ze1r, promise ; aon, country. The 
town or land of promise, or invitation. 
Orine, an island near the coast of Ethiopia, lat. 16° N. This was probably a market 
for gold, and the Ophir of the Scriptures. Its contiguity to the African gold country, 
and its name indicates such a circumstance; oj, golden ; in1y, island. ‘The golden 
island, or market for gold. Ophir is indicative of the same idea; oip, golden ; reap, 
man. Men inhabiting the country of gold. Men who dealt in gold—as we call them 
goldsmiths, refiners, or workers. 
Sava, a town in Arabia, lat. 14° N. This town may have acquired the appellation 
from quarrel or fight having occurred there ; rabav, a skirmish ; or from yabar, sorrel, 
which may be had in abundance there. 
Musa, a town in Arabia Felix, in lat. 12° N.; mear, fruit ; a, hill, or eminence. 
The fruitful hill. 
Ocelis, a town or place in Arabia Felix, near the Straits of Babelmandel ; oc, the 
sea ; aleay, a pleasant place. A pleasant or agreeable residence on the sea. 
Having now examined most of the names mentioned in Ptolemy’s Geography in the 
Arabian Gulph, I now proceed to the south and south-east coast of Arabia, on the 
Erythrean, or Indian Ocean, a country, as before stated, which was the habitation of 
Sabeans and Homerite, or Arabian Phenicians, before their discovery of the Medi- 
terranean sea, and the building of Sidon and Tyre. 
Lamala, the wet or oozy hills; caom, swampy; al, rocks. This name indicates 
an unwholesome position. 
Minea, the hilly country on the western shore of the Hargiah river: this is un- 
doubtedly manac, abounding in ore—the mine country. The Phenicians were the 
first great miners, 
Abisama, now called Cape Aden, a peninsula in Arabia Felix—the abode of delight ; 
abad, abode ; yam, pleasure or delight. 
