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and forging Idsei Dactyli ?) and blended with the first 

 Gomerian people that came westward, and together 

 with them, finally merged into various Celtic tribes of 

 Italy, Gaul, and Spain, and occupied the north coast of 

 the Adriatic, where, notwithstanding the character they 

 bear with posterity, they were advancing in the arts 

 of civilization. 



Others of a still greater Scythic innervation, it may 

 be inferred, penetrated by the passes on both shores, 

 along the western Caucasian chain, and crossing the 

 ridges of Armenia Minor, came upon the Upper 

 Euphrates, skirted the eastern flanks of Ammanus, 

 till they reached the Syrian coast ; or, continuing to 

 descend the banks of the great river, formed a portion 

 of that Scythic element which is constantly traced in 

 the Hebrew historical records, and repeatedly noticed 

 in the heroic age of Arabian traditions. 



In this way they constituted the chief source of that 

 red haired people which is still found in the moun- 

 tains of Palestine, and is known as the Montefict 

 Arab, and probably formed the first or primitive 

 Phoenician pirates and traders. A tribe of this people 

 was extant on the Euphrates, under the name of 

 Rhustumi ; others occupied the Arabian islands ; and 

 if all the earliest Scythian tribes were of the same 

 mixed origin, they were the invaders who ruled in 

 Egypt by the names of Hyksos and shepherds ; the 

 same who were the cause why red haired* men, and 



* The quality of red hair belongs exclusively to northern 

 Asia and Europe ; beside the Northmen and their descen- 



