36 On the Affinity of the Phenician and Celtic Languages. 
ness ; djanac, abounding in fruit, fertile ; oi, eastern ; 3, high land: the eastern 
island of high land, abounding in fruits and corn. 
Sacalite sinus et insul, islands on the south-east of Arabia; rac, plenty, abun- 
dance ; \cead, overflowing, fruitful, bounteous ; islands of abundance. 
Availites sinus et emporium, on the coast of Africa, near Babelmandel—the wel- 
come ; a, the ; rajlce, welcome: the desired port. 
Aronata, Promontorium, the north-east Cape of Africa, now called Cape Gardefan, 
or Gardefoy. The commencement or beginning of the broad sea ; apeanac. 
Barbaria or Asania—the country from Cape Gardefan to the river of Patta. Both 
these names very significantly describe this district, which is most wretched, unhealthy, 
unhospitable, and barren ; there is not a river, or creek, for several hundred miles ; 
banban, deadly ; 1a, country ; ayan, evil ; 10, country. 
Rapta, the capital of Barbaria, about lat. 3° south, on the banks of the river: per- 
haps paobta, form : separated by convulsion. 
Menuthias Insule, now Zanguebar, an island situated in about lat. 65° south ; mayn, 
riches, abundance, goods, wealth ; uat, earth or mould, ‘The rich island of fertile 
soil. This is a very accurate description of Zanguebar, Captain Owen, who lately 
surveyed this coast, says this island is eminently fruitful, and produces sugar, grain, 
and fruit, in the greatest abundance. 
I now leave this etymological examination to the scrutinizing criticism of the most 
incredulous and sceptical, as well as to the candid. . I feel convinced of the utter im- 
possibility of my conclusions being otherwise than correct on the whole. I may have 
fallen into some inaccuracies, but that so many coincidences of accurate descrip- 
tion, and precise terms of meaning and import, should, be accidental, appear to me 
quite impossible. A few names and sounds might happen perchance ; but that all 
the names’ on lines of coasts, of some thousand miles extent, should be significant, and 
in correct and applicable terms, of the nature and properties of the places described 
in any language but that of the people who conferred these names, cannot I think be 
seriously asserted. It may also be observed, that where two names are given by 
Ptolemy, each are found equally expressive of the nature and qualities of the place. 
