76 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OP THE CELTS. 



only Bible proper name that etymologically agrees witli XJlam.^^ 

 Sura, Aracca, Brixia, Urzan, and Badaea, may represent Sheresh, 

 Rakem, and Bedan. "What is wanting in Susiana, however, Persis 

 supplies. Persis, named after Peresh, and still, as Pars, denoting the 

 horse, contained Elymaei, or the descendants of Ulam, the son of 

 Peresh. The Ehogonis river is a well-marked trace of Pakem ; and, 

 still more remarkable, the rare word Bedan is represented by Bat- 

 thina, situated upon a lake not far from Persepolis. The Mesembria 

 Chersonesus, lying off the coast of this province, is no less a sign of 

 original Celtic occupation than that which Humboldt found in the 

 Thracian Mesembria.^^ Media tells the same story. The Geloea 

 Mountains may or may not relate to Gilead, but Pharasia, Elymais, 

 Ehagiana, and Batana, set forth Peresh, Ulam, Rakem, and Bedan. 

 Rakem rises into independent existence in Hyrcania, the people of 

 which, as I have already stated, were called Barcanii and Paricanii. 

 As a mountainous country, we shall yet find it reproduced in many 

 mountain tracts." Its district, Syracene, should indicate amicable 

 relations between Eakem and his uncle Sheresh. There were Parsii 

 in Gedrosia, and, although Ulam is unrepresented, Rakem appears to 

 have left distinct traces in Rhogana, Rhagiana, and the Paricanii, 

 while Bedan furnished Badis in the extreme west. In Aria, also, 

 there were Calatii or Gileadites, with Parsii of Peresh and Arachoti, 

 who may have been of Rakem. Parsii, Elamites, and Hyrcanians, 

 •with Syracenians, thus seem to have been the chief inhabitants of 

 the Persian empire proper. The descendants of Bedan were not 

 sufficiently removed from the centre to rise to the dignity of a nation, 

 and the name of Gilead, except in Aria, was merged in those of his 

 children. 



It would accord with the notions of the Sanscritists to derive this 

 and all other families of civilized men from the mountains of northern 

 India,^" The Gileadites are found in India, but plainly as immi- 

 grants from Persia. They were the Calatii of the Ganges, of whom 



12 Dan. viii. 2. It is the classical Eulseus. 



13 Anthoa's Class. Diet., Art. Mesembria. 



1* Such were Rhagiana in Media; Argseus and Arganthonius of A. Minor; Aracynthus of 

 ^tolia ; Arachnseus in Argolis ; the region of the Hercuniates in Pannonia ; Eryx in SicUy ; 

 and the Hercynian Wood in Germany. 



15 Nothing can be more absard than to derive populations from an extremity rather than 

 from a centre. Sanscrit, valuable as it is for comparative purposes, affords the explanation of 

 nothmg. Its high development as a language makes it of as little value for such a purpose as 

 •the Greek and Latin tongues. 



