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Persia, where it designates command or leadership; 

 while in Egypt the same word seems to have been ap- 

 propriated to the sun, to exaltation and beauty, in 

 which sense it is equivalent to the Theotisk Frai, 

 Norsk Fager, handsome. Goshen or Goshan, in 

 Egypt, and Gauzaii in Mesopotamia, does not denote 

 a temple of the sun, but literally, the cow land, the 

 cattle country. 



The Delta, itsXexo; of Scylax, was most probably de- 

 signated in Egyptian by the name of Rab, since in 

 Hebrew it was called Rahab. For ages it gave shel- 

 ter to pirates and roving clans, which, when they had 

 remained fixed during a certain period, had no means 

 of resuming their marine course of life, because wood 

 for rafts and vessels was always scarce or wanting, the 

 tall reeds and rushes suffering none except the palm 

 tree to flourish. This was the cause, it may be be- 

 lieved, why the Kapthorim, after leaving Kapthor or 

 Cappadocia, wandering onwards by Rhodes, Crete, 

 and Cyprus, till they rested for a period in the Ta- 

 nitic arm of the Nile, were obliged to migrate by land 

 to Palestine. There were also the Sinim and Phoeni- 

 cians in the western arm, and Greek adventurers on 

 the bank near Damietta; others, most likely, were 

 absorbed in the Egyptian people, or passed onwards 

 to the west. Several of these tribes are, by classical 

 authorities, placed in connection with the Hyperbo- 

 reans, or rather the Finnic races, a branch of which 

 may have been the Hyksos (or Shepherds), with the 

 more probability, as the earliest Armenian language L; 



