THE EASTERN OEIGIN OF THE CELTS. ^91 



whom Pritcliard calls Cumbrians, were found in tlie same region."^ 

 These are alike the Zimri, -whose record in Cyrene, Semeros, con- 

 nects them with the A=ssyrian Sum:erians. A part of the Cjmri 

 followed the course pursued by the main body of the Celtic emigi-ants, 

 and passed into Europe from Asia by the' Black Sea, the Sea 6f Mar- 

 mora, or the ^gean. But a very considerable portion of this family 

 followed the route of the Trojan fugitives in Roman story, and of the 

 Celts who peopled Britain and Ireland, according to their native tradi- 

 tions, that, namely, which lay along the northern coast of Africa 

 from Egypt to Carthage, whence they set sail for Sicily ; or to the 

 pillars of Hercules, where they passed over into Spain.^ Three 

 Cymric tides at different periods thus set in to Europe from Asia 

 and Africa. That which traversed a Greek and Sarmatian area pro- 

 bably became Germanized, and developed the Cimbri of J^itland with 

 other Germanic tribes. These were Asiatic Cymri, The first in 

 point of time of the two African migrations, that which set out from 

 the neighbourhood of Carthage, furnished the Cymric element in the 

 Italian populations, and fused in part with the two other streams 

 from the east and west in Rhoetia and Helvetia. The western migra- 

 tion filled Spain, occupied part of Gaul, and sent colonies into the 

 British Islands. Still another stream, I believe in common with Mr. 

 Hyde Clarke, visited the Azores, the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, 

 and moved westward into the ISTew World.®'' I propose devoting a 

 separate paper to the Celts in America. To return, however, to the 

 traces of the Cymri in Northern Africa. We have already found 

 Semeros in Cyrene. In the same Libyan region we meet with 

 Auschitse, as in Arabia, with Nausida, Aziris, Menelaus, Masadalis, 

 Ampelus and Ampeliotae. In Africa and Numidia appear Zamora, 

 Sidetani, Pisida, Azarath, Sizar or Usar, Sizara, Mascula, the Misu- 

 lani and Machlyes, Amuncla, Damensii, Igilgilis, Culcua, Culucitanse, 

 Burga, Tarychise, Tritonis, and a host of similar names. There also 

 the Mideni carry out the Midianite connection, that has more than 

 once helped to attest the Keturite origin of the Zimri. Sallust, 

 quoting from the library of Hiempsal, states that among the ancient 

 inhabitants of Africa and Numidia there were Medes, Persians and 

 Armenians, who had followed the fortunes of Hercules, and that the 



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«o Virgilii ^neid ; Keating's General History of Ireland ; Geoffrey of Monmouth's Britiab 

 History ; Fordun's Chronicle. 

 *' Researches, &o, 



