_nosuch proof as here mentioned. 
4811.) Derivation of the Words Celie, Cumbri, or Cymbri, Ke. 131 
#8 demonstrated next to mathematical 
certaiity, that this country was peopled 
by Gomer’s posterity. The probability 
of this I will not dispute, but I have seen 
Be 
this however as it may, the Celtes or 
Gauls are said “ actually to be derived 
rom the Gomerians.” 1 will set this in 
{ts proper light. 
~ Let Can, a moantain 6r head, (which 
is often changed to Cal and Gal, when it 
‘takes another syllable, ) be changed into 
Cav, and this to Cam, as in the Cambri; 
and into Cum or Cym, as in the Cumbri 
or Cymbri; these changes will be the 
same in analogy with Tav, Tau, and 
Fam, words for water or stream, derived 
from Tamh, or Tav's and the syllables 
Cam, or Cum, will, in coniposition, im- 
ly the same as Ciu, Cal, or Gal, a 
ead, hill, point, or end. But as Al, 
high, takes D in Dal, a dale, and V in 
. Vale; so’ Cav, Cam, and*Cum, will be 
found in some names to imply a cavity 
‘or lidllow: and, in asimilar way, the roots 
wf words for’ depths, are often derived 
from those for heights.’ A ‘Combe, 
_ (sometimes written Cwm and Cum,) isa 
‘weorner, which includés a valley or bot- 
tom, and is surrounded on every side, 
except one, by a ridge of Hill Land. 
e word Cubhar, or Cumar, is corner; 
ut let us suppose that, instead of araised 
‘corner, or ‘height, which this often im- 
plies, you. conceive a similat hollow. 
‘The word Cum, ‘or Combe, ‘will in_this 
~ease be the hollow: the syllable Ar is 
-the land, and the same as Ic, or Tic, in 
“Celtica. There is in Devon a Combe, 
‘into which several small ones terminate: 
these lands are therefore called the Cu- 
mari. In hike manuer the word Cel 
“May sometimes imply a bottom mnames, 
and the Celtici and the Cumari may be 
‘supposéal the same peoplé; but in this 
_we have been totally mistaken. 
‘towns on streams constantly took syno- 
For 
Tymous names, and these were distin- 
‘guished, not by their like meanings, but 
_ by their different spellings ; and although 
the same names of one countty were 
found in ariother, it did not follow that 
the people of tiie one were the same as, 
or allied to, the people of the other.” It 
_ was the same by these people, the Celtici 
hd the Cumari. Ihave proved that the 
features of Spain gave nante to the Celts, 
or Gauls, of that country; I must do the 
same of the Cimbri. But first 1 mast 
‘shew how the word Cumbri, or Cimbri, 
4s formed; I have given what Mons. 
Pezron says of it, The Romans, to ex- 
press this word with less syllables, used 
the letter 6 for a or u, and thus Gunur, 
or Cumur, in which thesyllable uz meayt 
border jand, or land, they expressed Ly 
Cumbr; and hence the word Cumari, was 
expressed ‘by Cumbri.. There .are .se- 
verat head lands, or corners, Which are 
Said to have tiken names from the Cum- 
bri; these are enumerated in,our dicti- 
Onaries of proper names, and fram these 
I will select Cimbria, part of the coun- 
“try now called Denmark, and which 
takes the name Cimbrica Chersonesuse 
This name. is certainly, Mr,. Editon, 
nearly ‘allied in rhetorical, analogy, to 
Gallia Celtica, The point of land which 
gave thést Cimbri name is Jutland: you 
can seatcely select a point of Jand which 
‘answers to its old name better; its new 
one is a translation of the old. . Jutland 
gives name to the Jutlanders; and the 
Cumar, or Corner Land, gave name to the 
old Cumari, of this region. I will, Mr 
Editor, give no further proofs of this 
‘plain case, The mathematical certainty 
‘therefore ‘of Gomer’s posterity peopling 
Jutland is very uncertdin: we. shall 
‘hereafter find how it peopled France. 
In the dispersion of mankind, and the 
settlement of the earth, the Bible is our 
‘only safe guide. In other books we 
‘combat all sorts of fables; but, from the 
‘names in these compared with situa- 
‘tiens, a vocabulary may be formed of all 
the old Celtic terms. which, refer to the 
features of nature; and from these should 
all names be compared and analysed... 
‘I have “repeatedly mentioned, in what 
‘I have written that, ambiguities arise. not 
from common words of 4 particular lan- 
‘guage, when referred to common things; 
for these are formed and varied to convey 
‘common ideas only. , But in the know. 
‘ledge of proper. names, necessarily formed 
for every particular district, and iurevery 
‘local purpose, the number and vaziations 
of which exceed our ordinary conception, 
and whose roots, only in. the,commen 
‘language, often. denote the. names. of 
‘places, and of natural things, we are veny 
‘deficient. Let me illustrate this by a 
late author’s derivation of Coxyeys, 
« Corycus,” says he, “,is.a lofty moun. 
tain tiear Teos, and not far from Erythra; 
it is said to abound with crocusses ;” 
* Ultima Coryco que cadit aura Croco.” 
“ Choruchim,”. he says, ‘is Hebrew for 
_these flowers, and from this word, slightly 
‘changed by the, Greeks, [ conceive the 
mountain to have been named.” © ; 
I have often charged people ta see 
that there is an agreement bewveen sate 
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