76 On the Affinity of the Hiberno- Celtic and Phenician Languages. 
Tarquinii. Tapconar, a ferry or passage over a river. These people resided in a 
town situated on the river Arone. 
Falisci. ¥ajl, a precipice or cliff ; wyrse, water. The people residing on or near a 
cataract or fall of water. 
Coretani. The pastoral or sheep feeding tribe or people. Caon, sheep ; cana, 
country. 
Lucamo, or Lucamon. The title of the hereditary chiefs of the Etrurian nation, 
derived from lejc, a precious stone, and caoman, a noble, chief, or prince. One orna- 
mented with or wearing a diadem, as a mark of dignity or sovereignty. 
The name of the country Tuscia is probably derived from the circumstance of its 
being the first settlement made by the Phenicians on the coasts of Italy. From corac, 
a beginning or commencement. 
The Irish have many figurative refinements of language, by which they denominate 
the Deity : as aoran, the eternal ruler ; corac 3an corac, the beginning without a be- 
ginning, or the first cause. Their common name is va, which also means a day ; so 
a sory, the antient of days, may be the true origin of deus. How little foundation is 
there for the assertion that the Irish language is without terms of art or refined ideas ; 
it would be made only in total ignorance or relying on the ignorant decla- 
ration of others. The language is rich in such refinements as could only have origi- 
nated among a thinking and reflecting people. 
The Greeks called Etruria ruppnvia, and the sea the Tyrhenian sea. This is proba- 
bly from ap, land; epsea, of necessity, force, compulsion, violence, or conquest, 
from being driven upon it first by stress of weather or other necessity. 
THE GREEKS. 
The first civilized people who are said to have visited Greece were the Pelasgi, 
a most mysterious nation. We know little of them but their name, and their cha- 
racter as a civilized people ; but from whence they came, or of their original country, 
not a word. They are said to have settled colonies in Argolis, in Peloponesus, Thes- 
saly, and Epirus, while others extend them over all Greece, and even into Thrace ; 
and, as usual, their name, for want of correct knowledge, is derived: by the Greeks 
from an individual called Pelasgus, who is said to have been their first king. But this 
derivation is unworthy of a moment’s consideration. 
Two theories have been promulgated respecting their origin. One bringing them 
from the barbarous hordes residing on the Caspian and Euxine sea; the other makes 
them autochthones, or aborigines; both unsupported by evidence. An admirable 
German writer, Conrad Mannert, of Nuremberg, (in his Geografie der Gtriechen, 
1792-5) gives a more probable hypothesis, while he rejects both the former. He says, 
they every where met, on their arrival, with races of men less civilized than them- 
