PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 577 



The monuments of Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia must inform us 

 of the early history of the great Onite, or, as we may term it, Ionian 

 family. The other records from which I have taken my materials 

 can only serve to confirm the conclusions drawn from the study of 

 the monuments, and to connect the race which these commemorate 

 witli part of the populations among whom such traditional records 

 occur. Yet by their means we may be enabled not only to build up 

 a true ethnology, and a comparative philology worthy of the name, 

 but also to restore universal history from before the time of Abraham 

 to the comm'encement of the accepted historical periods of civilized 

 nations, when their later annals have been subjected to well-iounded 

 criticism. So far it has simply appeared in this paper that a man, 

 whom the Hebrew record calls Onam, left a Chaldean home to 

 exercise sovereignty near the banks of the JSTile ; that he founded a 

 dynasty — the members of which ruled in On, Aboo-Seir, Tentyra, 

 Thebes, Hei-monthis, and other parts of Egypt; that some of his 

 descendants remained in that land until after the exodus of the 

 children of Isi-ael ; that others were early expelled, and estabKshed 

 themselves in Palestine, Syria, Assyria and Babylonia; and that 

 thence they spread in difierent bands, carrying with them the same 

 legends into Persia and India in the east, and in the west into Asia 

 Minor, Thrace, Greece, Italy, Gaul and the British Islands. Side 

 by side with them in these various countries have appeared Jerach- 

 meelites, Horites, or Ashchurites, and within the G( manic area, 

 which is peculiarly Ashchurite, their legends have occuj. , d attesting 

 an ancient and important connection of the two faj^ilies. The 

 student of the early history of Babylonia and Assyria may receive 

 some assistance from the facts stated in this essay, but its chief 

 importance is for the Egyptologist. It has added ten kings, princes 

 or divinities, to the six whom my researches among the Horites 

 brought to light, and the twenty-eight specified or alluded to in my 

 paper on " The Shepherd Kings." Eorty-four Egyptian names within 

 at most six families, independently of many doubtful connections, I 

 have thus professed to arrange in chi-onological and genealogical 

 order. ^^* They do not extend, however, over more than eight genera 



139 The forty-four names occur as follows : 

 I. — Divinities, monarchs and princes of the Horites, Auritse or Hor-shesu, including the 

 Jerachmeebte fanuly of Onam. 



