THE CANADIAN JOURNAL. 



NEW SERIES. 



No. XC III. —JANUARY, 1877. 



THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



SECOND PAPER. 



BY JOHN CAMPBELL, M.A., 

 Professor of Church History, Presbyterian College, Montreal, 



In my last paper on this subject I mentioned an important Celtic 

 family which did not "trace its descent directly from Gilead but 

 which, nevertheless, sustained intimate relations with his line. Gael 

 and Cymri, according to Niebuhr, were the two great components 

 of the Celtic stock.^ Josephus long before had been struck with the 

 connection of the two names, and accounted for it by deriving the 

 Galatians from the patriarch Gomer, in which he has been followed 

 hj a large number of writers coming down to the present day.^ It 

 was, however, with no intention of tracing the family of Gomer or 

 the origin of the Cymri that I commenced the researches in the 

 departments of comparative geography and mythology that have 

 resulted, as I believe, in fixing the relations of the latter. The 

 result, entirely unexpected and even astonishing to myself, was the 

 consequence of a legitimate and full, but by no means exhaustive, 

 induction from geographical facts and mythological statements ex- 

 tending over a wide field. It rests to a great extent, although far 

 from exclusively, upon the collocation of names in the topographical 

 nomenclature and mythological genealogies of many peoples. I do 

 not claim that all the names mentioned by me refer to the personages 

 whose descendants I seek to trace. These are so numerous that time 

 has not permitted me to make that minute investigation into their 

 history which would enable me to write with certainty. A few of 

 them I have already brought forward in totally difierent connections, 



1 History of Rome, ii 520. * Josephas' Antiquit. I., Ti. 1, 



