170 Druidism in connection with Wiltshire. 
Eth-Baal, or Et-Bol. Ain-Ath, whose temple in Canaan was styled 
Bith-Anath (Bu-Ain-Tan), is found often reversed, and styled 
Ath-an. What matters it whether we say, Rih-Gille, or Gille- 
Rih ?) 
CHAPTER V. 
THe Puenicians. 
‘Prima ratem ventis eredere docta Tyrus.”—TZvbullus. 
As we have alluded to the probable connection of the Titans with 
the Phenicians after their expulsion from Egypt, and also the 
affinity of the latter with the Chaldeans, it may be desirable to 
give a brief account of that enterprizing people who made Tyre 
the metropolis of commerce for so many ages. Such an enquiry 
is important from the commercial intercourse of the Phcenicians 
with this country and their colonization of Ireland, whose present 
inhabitants and language discover their Tyrian original. Though 
there has been considerable difference of opinion concerning the 
origin of the Welsh, the Cornish, and Armoric or French British, 
(to whom may be added the Belgae), some deriving their extraction 
from the Teutoni or Goths a German people, and descendants of the 
Cimbri who inhabited Jutland or the Cimbric Chersonesus in the 
North of Europe, there has never been a doubt respecting the 
Trish, who with the Erse or Scottish Highlanders and the Manks, 
_ were generally admitted to be of Celtic origin. 
We are informed by Tacitus,? that Ireland was more frequented 
by merchants for the purpose of commerce than Britain, though 
the latter country was visited by Phcnicians on account of 
its tin. This Roman historian in another of his works* acquaints 
us that Celtic Europe was first colonized by navigators or 
emigrants in ships. ‘The Germans.” he says, “ there is reason to 
think are an indigenous race and the original natives of the country, 
without any admixture of adventitious settlers from other natives. 
In the early ages of the world the adventurers who issued forth in 
quest of new habitations, did not traverse extensive tracts of land: 
1 Maclean’s History of the Celtic Language, pp. 256, 257. =” In Agricola. 
3 Tac. de Moribus Germanorum, quoted by Sir W. Betham. 
