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probably retain a name once given in memory of the youngest son of 

 Hammoleketli to rites cliaracteristic of her worship." The Phoeni- 

 cian colonies indicate that the family of Zimran was once powerful 

 there. Camirus in E,hodes, named after Camirus, the son of the 

 nymph Hegetoria, is undoubtedly a record of Zimran, the son of Ke- 

 fcurah..'''' Malta, with its pliallic monuments, received its designation 

 from Moleketh or Mylitta.''^ Cossura may liave retained the name 

 of Ezer. Melos and Thera can hardly be dissociated from Mahalah 

 and Darda. In Spain Abdei-a and Malaga, in connection with, the 

 Bastitani and Tui-detani, also afford traces of Abiezer, Mahalah, Ishod 

 and Daixla. 



In Armenia we find vestiges of the family of Zimran, as well as 

 of that of Gilead. It contained Zimara, Astacana, Testis, Azora, 

 Molchia and Acilicene. Darda appears to have had no memorials 

 there. The region of Caucasus, besides the Cimmerii upon its bor- 

 ders, furnishes Sioda of Albania, Seumara and Yasaada of Iberia, 

 Absarus and Mechlessus of Colcliis. In the Glaucus river, the Cilici 

 of Colchis, Colchis itself and the Tarsura, we may discover footprints 

 of Chalcol and Darda. Madia, like Motene of Armenia . and similar 

 names elsewhere, keeps us in mind of Midian's relationship with 

 Zimran."* Pontus, in Pimolisa, Megalopolis and Collucia, perhaps 

 exhibits the marks of occupation by Malialali's and his son Chalcol's 

 descendants. Cappadocia, so rich in Gileadite names, was not alto- 

 gether destitute of the records o% Zimran's line. There we find 

 IinbaxTis and Sinoria, the Scydices Mountains, Aziris, Melitene, two 

 rivers named Melas, Eumeis, Gaolasera and ad Dracones. Cilicia was 

 pre-eminently a Gileadite habitat. There Zimran's name survived 

 in Commoris. Posidium, built, according to tradition, by Amphilo- 

 chus, and Mallns, Avhich contained his oracle, together with Melania 

 and Mylfe, show that Ishod and Mahalah went hand in hand.''* The 

 family of Pieman appears prominently in the Amanides and Homon- 

 adenses. Amphilochus, as the namer of Mallus, v/as undoubtedly 

 ^Mahalah, and his father Amphiaraus, Zimran. At Mallus CalchaS' 

 was associated with Amphilochus, and he was his second son Chal- 



'1 Lenormant & Chevalier, ii. 230. 

 " Diod. Sic, V. 35. 

 '■^ Lenormant & Chevalier, ii. 230. 



^3* The eircuracision of the Colchians and some of the neighbouring tribes in Asia Minor, may:' 

 have been an indication of their Abrahamic anct'stry. There were circumcised tribes in Thrace. 

 '* Herodot. iii. 91 ; Strab. siv. 5, 16. 



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