82 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



This Yolcese Palus must connect with the Yolcse or Arecomici (Hercu- 

 niates) of Gallia Narbonensis ; with Lacus Vulsiniensis of Etruria, 

 and the Volsci of Latium, which will yet be proved to have been 

 centres of the Gileadites ; with Vologesia of Babylonia north of the 

 Orcheni ; and with the Yolsas Sinus of northern Caledonia.^^* I do 

 not know whether the Bolitae on the borders of Aria belong to this 

 Yolcic family, nor can I at present tell how it and that of the 

 ^gestani relate to the stock of Gilead. The fact of a repeated 

 geographical connection is, however, evidence of some importance. 

 Still another tribe, bearing the names Savadii in Persia, Sabsei in 

 Arabia, Sophenes in Armenia, Sabsei in Cappadocia, Sapsei in Thrace, 

 Savii in Pannonia, Suevi in Germania, &c., maintains constant geo- 

 graphical relations with the line of Gilead. Of these people also, at 

 present I know nothing. The Varciones of western Pannonia are 

 probably the same as the Hercuniates of the east, the sole difference 

 between the names being that which we have already found between 

 Barcanii a«d Hyrpanii. In Vindelicia, Vetoniana still furnishes a 

 trace of Bedan, and Biriciana and Bragodurum may be forms of 

 Peresh. The Alauni of Noricum were I think the people of Ulam, 

 appearing in a Gallic and British form.^^ Yetoniana again carries 

 forward the Bedanites ; and Fasiana and Bideeum may be variations 

 of the name. In the south of Rhsetia we meet with the town 

 Sarraca and the OUius, river as reminiscences of Sheresh and Ulam. 

 The Brigantii of the northwest are the Barcanii of Rakem, the Galli 

 Braccati, who were not so much the wearers of braccce, which it 

 is well to remember were articles of dress in use among Persians, 

 Germans and Celts, but rather of the brychan or brygan which is the 

 Scotch plaid of various eolours, answering as no other word does to 

 the Hebrew Rakem,?^ 



Italy, it is generally conceded, contained a large Celtic element. 

 In Yenetia, however, Yedinum, a form of Bedan, is the only trace 

 which at present concerns us, unless we suppose that some of the 

 places bearing the name Julius received it from a Gallic ancestor 

 of the people inhabiting them rather than from the Caesar of that 



31* To these must "be added the Velocasses of Gaul, who dwelt between the Caleti and Parisii. 



22 The Alauni, who may he the Alans, do not appear as a nation, Alemanni and AUobroges 

 toeing the names by which they were known ; but Alauna and Allieni in Italy, Gaul, and 

 Britain mark their course. 



33 The Erse ireacaim, meaning to speckle, variegate, chequer, embroider, is identical in 

 meaning with the Hebrew re&em. Breacan, a plaid, in the same- language, agrees with the' 

 Welsh hrychan. It was the dress of the Brigantes sr Rakemites. 



