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The Ionian name is of later introduction in Greece ; 

 it was probably before known in Asia Minor, although, 

 if we trust Greek pretensions, they carried it from 

 Europe to Asia. The European Greeks had, however, 

 anteriorly been known by the name of ^Egialeans or 

 coasters, which is an evident proof that at first they 

 only occupied the sea coast, and consequently, that 

 they had come by water, and not across the Danube 

 through Thessaly. Among these, the Cretan colony 

 led by Rhadamanthus, whose name indicates a Getic 

 origin, had settled in Boeotia. Tiryus itself was the 

 abode of fishermen, and Argos was built by Cyclo- 

 peans, notwithstanding that Euripides calls it Pelas- 

 gian. This last name appears to be more generical 

 than the other, and to have superseded it, though it 

 is not improbable that the Cyclopeans were likewise 

 a distinct tribe of the family which was soon driven 

 forward to Sicily, where we have already pointed out, 

 that they appear to have been connected with the 

 Finns of High Asia, in their quality of miners and 

 metallurgists. In connection with the kindred Siculi, 

 they had settlements on the coast of Italy, and with 

 the Sicani, another clan of the same stock, had pene- 

 trated to Liguria and Spain. In Greece, the Pelas- 

 gians appear to have constituted the chief portion of 

 the historical dominant population. They were most 

 numerous in Thessaly. The Perhaebians, Caucones, 

 Dolopians, Athamanes, the Helli, and Graii, on the 

 west coast of Epirus, were Pelasgi. The Paeonian 

 and the Cecropian Athenians were of the same stock. 



