MIGRATIONS OF MANKIND. 7-33 



The late Godfrey Higgins has also shown, in 

 his very elaborate work on the origin of nations, 

 languages, and religions, that southern Asia was 

 the ancient mother of nations, that men gradu- 

 ally spread themselves from India and Arabia, 

 across the Red Sea to Ethiopia, whence they 

 descended the Nile to Lower Egypt, and from 

 north Africa to other portions of the continent : 

 that from the Peninsula of Malacca, they passed 

 over to Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea, New 

 Holland, New Zealand, and other islands of the 

 southern Pacific : that from the north of India 

 and Persia they extended over ancient Scythia, 

 Siberia, and the north of Europe, while to the 

 westward, they spread over Asia Minor, Greece, 

 Italy, Spain, Gaul, Britain, Germany, and every 

 part of Europe: that the ancient Sasca or 

 Saxons, who occupied the greater part of Europe 

 before the arrival of the Celts, were in fact Scy- 

 thians, that came originally from the north of 

 India and Persia : finally, that the Saxons, Celts, 

 and Scandinavians, were successive swarms of the 

 same hive, sent out from middle Asia, and arrived 

 in the west at different periods, like the colonies 

 sent from Great Britain to America, Africa, and 

 Australia; the difference in their dialects being 

 such as would naturally arise in a few hundred 

 years in unwritten, or even in written languages. 

 (Anacalypsis.) 



Dr. Prichard also states on the authority of 

 Herodotus and Diodorns, that the Saxons were 



