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Thule. The island which the antients considered the farthest point of the 
inhabited world, called Ultima thule, supposed to be Iceland. Tul, pronounced 
Thule, is rest, sleep, repose. ‘The last place of rest. 
Fatican. Ahillat Rome, covered with stagnated waters, long disregarded on that 
account by the Romans. Feaz, a fen or bog ; a, the ; cean, head, or top; the hill 
Covered with bog or swamp. Heliogabalus first drained and cleared it. 
NYMPHS. 
Nymph. The word Nymph (wwugn) is derived from the Phenician. Naor, holy, 
sacred, sanctified, set apart, and was used by the Greeks to designate a bride, as 
well asa female divinity ; yaorj, which in pronunciation sounds nearly the same, is used 
by the Irish at this day in the same sense, it means a holy person, or saint, and a 
bride. It is spelled by the Highland Scottish Gael, Naomh. 
The derivation from the word Lympha, and that from rov da véac galvecba, their perpe- 
tual youthful appearance it is unnecessary to refute. They were the imaginary divini- 
ties, or spirits, who were supposed to inhabit the seas, rivers, fountains, springs, woods, 
trees, mountains, &c. &c. from which our modern fairy elves are derived, as well as 
the genii of the east. 
The Dryades, are probably derived from opaojdeac, witchcraft, sorcery, magic, 
elfish craft, which has ever been supposed to be performed by the agency of the 
gen, fairies, demons, or evil spirits; or under the Greek and Roman mythology, 
the demi-deity, who presided over fountains, woods, &c. &c. 
The Hamadryades were formed by the addition of the word onmna, a large tree, or 
timber ; the supposed residence of the spiritual being, for the sake of euphony the 
Celto-Phenicians often dropped a consonant which interfered with the agreeable sound 
of a word. 
The number of nymphs according to Hesiod, amounted to 3000; it would, there- 
fore, be a laborious task to collate their names, so as to ascertain their respective 
meanings. I shall, therefore, merely take the Neriedes in the order their names 
stand in Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary, which will afford ample testimony, that they 
were all derived from Phenician roots: their signification is not only striking, but 
highly poetical. 
Sao. The light, flitting, aerial nymph.  saob, light, Sc. 
Amphitrite. ‘The nymph of the sea-weed or fuci. %m, the deep sea, or ocean ; 
yitpleac, sea-weed, fuct. 
Proto. ‘The arrogant, conceited nymph. Ppov, or boo, arrogance, conceit. 
Galatea. ‘The bright, fair, or beautiful nymph of the wave or froth. galla, fuir- 
ness, brightness ; cea3, froth, delusive vision or appearance. 
