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repulsed by Indian forces, fell back upon Persia, and 

 brought with them Hindoo mythological notions, that 

 extended among kindred nations, and reached Scan- 

 dinavia. 



According to Chinese annalists, when Fob appeared, 

 B.C. 1027, Yuchi were already established in Bactria, 

 along the Sihoon or Jaxartes river, and they had 

 possessed, or still were masters of the great basin 

 around Lake Balkach ; the first station west of the cen- 

 tral mountain chain, provided that the Siberian region, 

 in remote times called Geta or Yeta, be not still more 

 ancient, and reveal the original meaning of Get, 

 bright, corruscating, the same as Sibir, and our silver, 

 which seems to be the Russian or Sclavonic translation 

 of Yet. 



The Chinese Yuchi, and more proper names of Yeta 

 and Getoe, collectively taken, denoted the whole family 

 of fair haired tribes, including those which were fore- 

 most in the movement towards the west, and were 

 partially intermixed with the Celtic tribes of the 

 north, forming the Cymber or Cimmerian people be- 

 fore mentioned. Similar interunions affected the Gallic 

 or fair haired Gaul tribes ; the Boii, the Yolsci, the 

 Britons of the east coast, the Vuinidi ; the Wilci, nor- 

 thern or second Belgse,* &c. ; but it may be doubted 



* The Esauites, or Italian Edomites of Gorio, who built 

 Norba, Alba, and other Cyclopean cities in Lower Etruria 

 and Latium, were a fair haired race, most likely Etruscans, 

 speaking an Oscan dialect. 



