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lochus, Monalus, Amenanus, Mense, Callicum, Torus, Terios and 

 Tiracia. Himera was said to have been founded by the Zanclsei of 

 Mylse; and Camarina, by Menecohis a Syracusan. ^^^ In either case 

 a place named after Zimran is colonized by Mahalah, who on the one 

 hand is connected with the family of Eshcol, and on the other with 

 Sheresh of Gilead. I cannot but think that the earliest population 

 of Sicily came from Africa, for on the opposite coast of Carthaginia 

 appear Sicilibus and Membresa, setting forth the migrations of the 

 Amorite line of Eshcol and Mamre. Melita, south of Sicily, I have 

 already claimed for the posterity of Mylitta or Moleketh. Bastia in 

 (Corsica is a reminiscence of Ishod ; and Metalla and Tarrhse of Sar- 

 dinia, of Mahalah and Darda. 



In Gaul we would naturally expect the Zimri to be well repre- 

 sented. And so in fact they were. In Narbonensis, Ambrum, 

 Ambrussum, Comaria and the Sambracitanus Sinus illustrate Zim- 

 ran ; and the Caturiges with Cotorissium, the Katoorah of Arabia, 

 or those who took their name from his mother Keturah. Setius 

 Segustero, Badera, Mantala, Calagorris, Salsulse and Tarasco are 

 traces of most of his descendants. But the best Zimrite record is 

 Massilia or Marseilles, which appears in a thoroughly Cymric region, 

 and which was said to be a Phocean colony. The Ephesium of this 

 city seems to link its history with Samornia of Asia Minor and with 

 the family of Midian, of whom Ephah was the eldest son. There was 

 a famous college of Druids near Marseilles in a sacred forest or grove 

 of oaks, and this wood the Abbe Banier does not scruple to associate 

 with the oaks of the Amorite Mamre. ^^^ Aquitania preserved few if 

 any traces of Zimran himself, but his descendants were commemorated 

 in the Vasates, Sociatum, Segodunum, Acitodunum, Atui-es, Segora, 

 Meduli, Mediolanum, Tamnum and Limonum. The Caderci may 

 have been a later Caturiges or Katoorah. Pezron cites Eustathius, 

 Jerome, Isidore of Seville, the Paschal Chronicle and Joseph Ben 

 Gorion as authorities for deriving the Gauls proper from Gomer.^^* 

 It is exceedingly doubtful whether ethnological researches will ever 

 succeed in taking us back to the time of that ancient patriarch, and 

 much more, whether any tradition but that of the Bible will ever be 

 found making mention of the great men of the antediluvian world, 



«i Thucyd. vi. 6. 



lii^ Banier, iii. 223-24. He also connects the Druids with Pythagoras and the FeiBian 

 Magi, 228. 

 153 Pezron, 1. 3. 



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