86 THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



establisli the fact of an ancient occupation by the family of Peresh 

 in all its branches. In the south-west about the Severn, the same 

 stock appears, in Ariconium, another Alauna, and in the large tribe 

 of the Boduni or Dobuni, to Avhom Badon or Bath belonged. Bedan- 

 ford or Bedford, farther to the east, is an indication that Bedan's 

 descendants once had a settlement there. Besides the name Caledonia, 

 Galda or Galloway, and Glota, or the Clyde, kept up the memory of 

 Gilead. Galda was also called Brigantum, and may have received 

 its population from the Brigantes in the south of Ireland. A Cale- 

 donian Alauna represented Ulam, and the name of his son Bedan 

 was still conspicuous in Epidia and Ebuda, with which the Yolsas 

 Sinus united the Volcse of the continent. I am persuaded that the 

 ancient British and Irish annals contain materials for restoring the 

 history of the Gileadite line back to the times of their earliest 

 achievements on the banks of the Euphrates. 



Had I been framing a theory of Celtic migration it would have 

 seemed suicidal to include in it notices of German tribes, but this is, 

 by my inductive process, absolutely necessary. Certain it is that 

 Persians and Germans have been shown to be closely allied ; and 

 ethnology has not yet settled the Cimmerian question on the side 

 either of Germanic Cimbri or Celtic Cymri. The mountain tract of 

 Hyrcania cannot be dissociated from the Hercynian Forest, and it is 

 reasonable to believe that the enclosed Yaristi were the posterity of 

 Peresh. The Batini farther to the north were of Bedan. Olmuz of 

 Bohemia is a memorial of Ulam, and Bamberg or Bedan-berg on the 

 Maine, of his son. The Frisii of Batavia were the Parisii under 

 Germanic influences, and the Byrchanis Insula off their coast, a link 

 to bind Rakem to Peresh. The modern Jellum retains the name of 

 Ulam, and Bedum, with the Baduhennse Lucus and the word Batavia 

 itself, indicate the high importance of Bedan. It is in Swabia how- 

 ever, which good authorities hold to have been originally Celtic, that 

 the German' branch of the Gileadites comes most prominently into 

 notice.*^ The very names Baden and "Wittenberg (Wurtemberg) 

 present two different forms of Bedan. Baden itself, as Aquae 

 Pannonise, confirms the connection ; and the Lake of Constance, as 

 Bodamicus Lacus or the Bodensee, puts it beyond all doubt. But 

 the Brigantes dwelt upon this lake, and another name for it was 

 Brigantinus Lacus, thus uniting Rakem with Bedan. The Yargiones 



*s Latham's Ethnology of Europe, 197. 



