500 AX ESSAY ON THE 



Palangshii by the mythologists of Boota??, and in-* 

 cliuled tlie lesser Jsidy Jrmenia, &c. The name 

 still remains in Fiacia, a town in Mysia, tlie inha- 

 b. tan is of which, with those of Scylace, had a pe- 

 culiar language, which was the same with that 

 spoken by the Pelasgi o^ Crestone, or Crotone, above 

 the Tyrrhtuians, in Italy ; and by the Pdasgi, 

 who lived on the shores of the JJdkspont, accord- 

 ing to Herodotus. Thus the denomination of 

 Flacshu, or Palavgshu, seems to be the same, with 

 Plucia, and Ptlasgia ; and the Pdasgi came origi- 

 nally from the lesser Asia. It is bounded by the 

 sea of Icshii, or juice of the sugar-cane, and which 

 seenjs to be the Eujcine sea : but this will be the 

 subject of a separate article, when it will appear, 

 that the Pauranics have confounded the Ask^ or 

 Ash-tree, with the Icshu or sugar-cane, as this tree 

 produces also a svv'eet juice, famous in the Edda, 

 and called, when boiled, asky, by the old Scythians 

 (according to He.rodotus, who has,, however, 

 strangely misrepresented the tree from which this 

 sweet juice was procured,) and which was after- 

 wards boiled into a hard substance, like that of the 

 sugar-cane, which is called gur in India. Hence 

 the Icshu sea, is called also in xhtPuranas, the sea 

 of Guda in Samcrit, and pronounced gur in the 

 spoken dialects. 



The fourth duipa is S'almali, S'almaia, or Saima- 

 lica, or the country of the willow*, and of the 

 lord of the willow Salmalcswara, Salmalices'a, the 

 same with ZamoLvis, called also, more properly, 

 SalnwLvis and ZalmoLvis. It extended from the 

 EiLiine to the shores of the i^rt///'c and Adriatic seas. 



* The word S dhnala is jzf'uerally underslood to signify Bom- 

 hax; but it si;;^ijities also sm h trees as produce cotton unfit for 

 spinning; and 1 suall shew, \>lien I come to treat of S'dlmala- 

 dwqja, that it is tp be undcritood there of tue wiilow. 



