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tions that the Zimri passed the sea and peopled the British Islands, 

 along with their relatives the Celts or Gileadites. Cambria or 

 Britannia Secunda does not, however, present us with many names 

 illustrating Zimran's line. Tlie Seteia may be a reminiscence of 

 Ishod, Mediolanum and Machynleth of Mahalah, and Mona of 

 Heman. But Britannia Prima, or the region south of the Thames 

 and the Bi-istol Channel, was, according to Richard of Cirencester 

 and other writers, a home of the Cimbri.^^^ They left their name 

 in the Tamar and Tamara of Cornwall, in Somerset itself and in 

 Ambrius and Ambresbury of Wiltshire, where Stonehenge is a 

 memorial of Druidical occupation. Ishod's name may have been 

 shortened to Isca, and may appear in the modern Seaton. St. 

 Michael's Mount probably had nothing to do with the archangel, 

 but was a close imitation of Machalah. The Damnonii, whose cities 

 were Tamara, Isca and TJxella, and among whose rivers appear the 

 Tamarus, Isca and Durius or Dart, were undoubtedly the descend- 

 ants of Heman, associated with those of Ishod, Chalcol and Darda.^^'^ 

 Ischalis and Calcua may be added to the records of Chalcol ; and 

 Darda finds abundant representation in the Durotriges, Truro, Dorset, 

 and a large number of similar names further east. • Ocruium, the 

 name of Lizard Point, was perhaps a disguised Ezer. It is interest- 

 ing to find Termolus as one of the chief towns of these British 

 Cimbri, as it recalls the Termilyse of Lycia, whom, as Milyse, I 

 have already associated with Mahalah. Turmuli in Lusitania, and 

 Tremuli in Mauritania, are two connected names. Flavia Csesari- 

 ensis cannot have contained so lai-ge a Cymric population as Britannia 

 Prima. Yet we find there Camborium, Combretonium, Mediol- 

 anum, Durocina, Durocobrivce, &c. M?„xima Csesariensis, although 

 in the Roman period destitute of names directly denoting its Cymric 

 relationships, betrayed these at a later period in the Hiimber on the 

 East and Cumberland on the West, as well as in Deira. Segedunum, 

 the Sistuntii, Isurium, Maglove, Amboglana, Galacum, Oxellum and 

 Calcaria, are earlier vestiges.^''"* In Caledonia Dumbriton, Malua, 

 Damnii and XJxellum, may have been outlying pickets of the family 

 of Zimran. 



166 Six Old English Chronicles, Bohn, 440. 



1" lb. 441. 



15^* Cataracto or Catterick in this province recalls the Caturiges of Gaul and the Arahian 

 Katoorah. Similar names are Catarrhactes of Mesopotamia ; the Catarrhactes of Pamphylia, 

 Crete and Laconia ; and Cataracta of Samnium. It is hardly likely that they are all Greek. 



