84 THE EASTERlSr ORIGIN OP THE CELTS. 



a king of the Elymii related to Butes, set forth Hakem. Syracuse 

 seems to indicate that Sheresh had the chief representation in the 

 island,^' but Gilead, Peresh, and Bedan were worthily commemorated 

 in Galata, Pergusa, Bidis and Pittineo. Corsica had a Pitanus. 



The western peninsula of Europe contained a large Celtic or 

 Gileadite population. Gallia Cisalpina and northern India live again 

 geographically in Bsetica, for the Baetis, with its town Bseton, is the 

 counterpart of the Padus with Padinum and the Padsei with Patna. 

 Ulam accompanies Bedan in the two different forms Ulia and Selam- 

 bina, while Regina and Urgaon, which should connect with the more 

 northern province, show that the descendants of Bakem dwelt in 

 harmony with those of his brother. In Lusitania there were Celtici. 

 Arucci is a Spanish Eryx, and Brigantam indicates a western exten- 

 sion of the Brigantes. Elmantica or Salamanca doubtless arose from 

 the presence of TJ lam's descendants, which the Yettones or people of 

 Bedan so plaiiil}^ confirm. The very name of Tarraconensis, if its 

 modern equivalent Aragon did not recall Hakem, would do so by 

 its resemblance to Tricciana, Trichonis, and similar words already 

 connected with him. The Callseci and Ctiladunum, Bergusia and 

 Betimia link with his the names of Gilead, Peresh, and Bedan, while 

 other memoiials of himself are found in Barcina and Brigecium. In 

 Gavil the Calet^ of Normandy preserve intact the Gileadite name. 

 Not far from them dwelt the Parisii, whose city Paris was a western 

 version of Persepolis and Parisaria of the Persii and Prasii, or a 

 northern Perusia. Bibrax, Bibracte, and similar names exhibit a 

 reduplication of the initial letter of the same word, such as we 

 ha,ve found in Babrycia and Baprasium. The Betasii bordering on 

 Batavia were Bedanites of the same stock. In the west of Gaul, 

 Alauna, Areegenus and Rigunea were memorials of Ulam and 



37 As Sheresh is mentioned alone in the genealogy, it is difficult to trace his line, save by 

 such analogies of form as Syracuse and Pergusa present. It is not impossible that the Serica 

 of North-Eastern India, whence the Serici or Emodi Montes took their name, as weU as the 

 Serus river of vi'hat is now Siam which flowed through a region Chalcitis, indicate ancient seats 

 of the family of Sheresh. With these, Sariga in Margiana should connect, as well as Suragana 

 in Bactriana. The Bautes and Bautisus rivers of the Seres seem to unite them with the stock 

 that named the Padsei, Padus, &c. These Seres, or woi'kers in silk, seem fully identified with 

 the Chinese. Bryant, in his Analysis, v. 227, represents them as belonging to the Scythic 

 family. In the third volume of the same work (p. 425) he explains the fable of Arachnse as 

 arising from the skill in weaving of the Orchoeni of Chaldea. Eakem, the inventor of tartan, 

 may thus have been of the same stock as the silk workers of the far east. It is worthy of note 

 that tlie Celti(! for silk is sirig, seiric, and for the silkworm seirioean. The Saracens were silk 

 workers, as our English word sarcenet proves. It would be not a little remarkable to find th 

 Chinese and the Celts of Europe so closely connected. 



