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name, as well as the Dagon connection of Houcheng, Vichnou, 

 Shedad, Ashdod, etc., give ns families whose history is connected 

 with that of Ceres, which forms one of the earliest of ancient tradi- 

 tions. Eleusis, the abode of Demophoon, Celeus, his supposed father, 

 Elysium of the Greeks and Latins, Kailasa of the Hindoos, and 

 Grilshah of the Persians, with many similar names, meet in Elusa 

 or Khulasa (according as the breathing is absent or present), which 

 is a town and region in Gerar. Near at hand is Aroer, whence came 

 one of the Ceres line, Erechtheus of Aroura. There, indeed, sprang 

 into existence the Aryan race, as a race of husbandmen. Not far off, 

 towards the Mediterranean, is Jenysus, which is so thoroughly identified 

 with the Nyssa in which Bacchus was born, and frorii which Proser- 

 pine was carried away."^ Space will not permit me to enlarge further 

 upon this most interesting subject. Enough has been said to indicate, 

 if not to prove true, my belief (the proof is yet to come in future 

 papers), that the morning of History rose in the south of Palestine, 

 whence it passed to a brighter Egyptian day; and that the ''Myths 

 of the Dawn " may all be transmuted into genuine narratives of facts 

 by a careful comparison of them one with the other, with the region 

 specified, and with undoubted history. Biblical and [Monumental. 



Let the " single community and place " of Faber be the Egyptian 

 Empire at its largest extent, when no civilized nation was known to 

 exist beyond its bounds. These were marked on the north by Mount 

 Amanus ; on the east by the Euphrates and Tigris and the Persian 

 Gulf; on the south by the limits of Arabia Felix and Ethiopia ; and 

 on the west by the Sahara and the Mediterranean. Europe was a 

 desert wilderness, peopled, perhaps, after the manner of the American 

 continent, when first discovered ; and the greater part of Asia was in 

 the same condition. When did the nations who received their school- 

 ing within the limits mentioned go forth into the world beyond, to 

 give to history the unmistakable record of a distinct national life in 

 Persia and Asia Minor, Greece, and the Islands, Rome and Carthage, 

 and the later seats of empire in the north and west ? This question 

 may be difl&cult to answer with exactness; but monumental evidence 

 exists to show that as late as the date of the Exodus (1491 B.C.), the 



son of Houcheng or Pischdad, and Demophoon of Celeus (Khulasa), the favourite of Ceres. 

 There is a Wady Taamirah riinuiiig from Bethleliem (the house of bread) to tlie Dead Sea. 

 Bitter's Comp. Geog., iii., 135. The Demo or Dema in the ahove names suggest of themselves 

 a connection with Demeter, Damithales, Demo, Damia, &c. Guigniaut, iii., 616. 

 118 Guigniaut. iii., 67. Diod. Sic. i., t>, iii., 34, &c. 



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