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name Mecle became corrupted into that of Moor.®® Some ancient 

 tradition must have given rise to such a statement. The Medes of 

 Salluat were no doubt the Midianites, and his Persians the descend- 

 ants of Peresh, the nephew of Zimran, some of whom I traced to 

 Libya in my last paper. Mauretania was pre-eminently a Zimrite 

 country. Thamarita, Tumarra and Camarata were records of Zimran. 

 The great river Molochath, like the Nahar Malcha of Babylonia, 

 commemorated his wife, whose name is identical with it in form and 

 meaning. Usceta, Sigatha, Sitisi, set forth the relations of Ishod's 

 descendants, and the Masssesylii, Malliana, Amilos and Ampelusia, 

 those of Mahalah's progeny to this African province. Asarth, Ti- 

 grisis and Tasagora might easily be reminiscences of Ezer. In Mina 

 Heman's name may appear in an abbreviated form ; the Chalcorychii 

 mountains should preserve that of Chalcol ; and Durdus Mens, the 

 Dryitse, Daradse and Dracones, and similar words, recall the name 

 of Darda. 



Having taken Palestine virtually as our starting point, and having 

 explored the lands east and west, we now return to it, and pass north- 

 Ward into Pho3nicia and Syria. Already we have made an excursus 

 into the neighbourhood of Damascus, in connection with the history 

 of the Banu Amelah. With them we have associated Dummar, As- 

 wad, Grerra and Trachones. There was an Azar also in Syria ; and 

 Mahallib and Ampeloessa may have been traces of the Amelah. 

 Amana and Haminea, Trieres and Daradax should relate to Heman 

 and Darda. Turning to the Phoenician history of Sanchoniatho, I 

 am conscious of a wrong identification which I proposed in a former 

 paper. It is that ,of the hero Demaroon.®' He was the son of a 

 well beloved concubine of Ouranos, who had been taken from him by 

 Ilus or Cronos. In him we must find Zimran once more appearing, 

 as he has already appeared in the Persian, Chaldean and Arabian 

 histories. The fact that the son of Demaroon was Melcartus, and that 

 Adodus was associated with him, tends to prove this connection.'" 

 Melcartus is Mahalah, and Adodus probably Ishod. In Melcartus 

 we find an assumption by Mahalah of the name of his mother Mole- 

 keth. He is Moloch Mars, Enyalius and Miles, the soldier par ex- 

 csUence. The Tamyras river of Phoenicia commemorated Demaroon 

 or Zimran. The mughazils, or phallic monuments of Phoenicia, 



*8 Sallustii Bel. Jug. xviiL 



85 The Primitive History of the lonians, Can. Jour., Noa. S and 6, vol. xiv- 



^0 Sanchoniatho's Plioeniciaa History by Cumberland, 34, 35. 



