34 On the Affinity of the Phenician and Celtic Languages. 
Cambysum, now called the Subunreeka river. The crooked silk river; cam, 
crooked or winding ; bioyap, silk. 
Tilogrannum.—The Delta land at the mouth of the Ganges, now called the Sun- 
derbunds, a place of jungle and disease. ‘The land of deformity, ugliness, or danger ; 
calam, land, earth, district ; zpanead, or zpaneam, ugliness, abomination, baseness : 
a most appropriate name. 
NAMES ON THE EASTERN COAST OF THE BAY OF BENGAL BEGINNING AT THE MOUTH OF 
THE CHITTAGONG RIVER. 
Catabeda river, now called the Chittagong. The river of friendly boatmen ; cata, 
Friendship ; bavac, having boats. 
Baracura river, now called the Sunkar. ‘The weedy river, or the marshy river 
with weeds ; baypoz, plants that grow in the water ; cuppac, a marsh, or fen. 
Triglyphon, the river of Aracan—the dirty river with three branches ; cya, three ; 
zlajb, dirty water ; aban, river. 
Tecosanna—the house of dissolution or death ; teac, house ; 0, of; yanad, dis- 
solution, or dying. The mouth of the river of Aracan: perhaps one of the most 
unhealthy and pestiferous places on the globe. 
Sabva, a town on the coast, a little to the south of the above; yab, death ; ua, coun- 
try. The unhealthy country, or district of death. 
Mareura, one of the mouths of the river Ava, the Surawaddy: the sea of strife ; 
mapa, sea; uta, contention, strife. 
Barabenna, a place at one of the mouths of the Ava river: the head or promon- 
tory of strife ; bana, strife, anger ; 4, of ; bei, head. 
Tamala, The S.-W. promontory of the Delta, formed by the mouths of the Ava 
river, now called Cape Negrais : the place or habitation of the plague, or disease from 
Malaria ; caom, the plague or pestilence arising from unwholesome exhalations ; ayll, 
a place or locality ; caom, also means ooze, or swampy low land: it also means death. 
Sabaricus sinus—the Gulph of Martaban or Pegu: the gulph into which the Su- 
rawaddy and other rivers empty themselyes—the gulph of the power of death ; yab, 
death ; anacar, power. In this bay is the entrance to the port of Rangoon. 
Leste Daone—The people of that part of the coast of the Burman Empire which 
lies on the Bay of Bengal, between 9 and 17° N. lat. This appellation is very re- 
markable ; its literal meaning in Gaelic is, the contentious or quarrelsome people ; 
loy>a, contentious or quarrelsome ; >a0ne, people: the pronunciation is precisely 
Lestee Daonse, as given by D’ Anville. 
Berobe, now called Mergi, a place on the coast, in lat. 14° N. ; be, visage ; peab, 
crafty—the people of dissimulation, or fraud. 
Ligor, a place on the peninsula of Malacca, about 8° N. lat; bazon, a tongue ; 
which exactly answers its character. 
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