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eagle. The later Coptic form of this word is Baramoodeh, wMch at 

 once calls to mind San Lucar de Barrameda, a Spanish town on the 

 Guadalquiver, in which was an ancient temple of Phosphorus, who, 

 like Prometheus, brought light from heaven.^^ Still another connec- 

 tion is found in the Indian Perimuda, mentioned by Aelian as a 

 famous place for pearls.^" In Sethrum, Archandropolis, Antae- 

 OPOLis, and Ilithyia, appear Saturn, Archander, son of Phthius, 

 the latter a name strongly resembling the Egyptian Phthah, Antaeus, 

 Bon of Terra, and the goddess Ilithyia. In another paper I have 

 called attention to Thebes, Phylace and Tentyra as finding coun- 

 terparts elsewhex'e. Mounts Casius and Tourrah are reproduced 

 in the Caucasus and Taurus of other lands. Aderbijan and Karug- 

 Bar represent in Persia the Egyptian Atarbechis and Cercasorum. 

 CoNOSSO gives Gnossus, Tahpenes Daphne, and Abydos is common 

 to the Thebaide and the Troade. There was a Babylon in Egypt, 

 and a Goshen in Palestine; and the Minyae, before they dwelt in 

 Greece, inhabited the wide Middle Egyptian District of Minieh, and 

 sojourned for a while about Khan Minyeh or Capernaum, on the sea 

 of Galilee. Lofty Rome may owe its origin to those who once dwelt 

 in Egyptian Rameses, or Palestinian Kama, both of them meaning 

 the high or lifted up; and its Romulus might easily pass from a 

 Coptic Ramlieh, on the east of the Nile, to an Arabic Ram-allah 

 not far from Jerusalem, reproduced again in the Persian story as 

 Roum, now Roumelia, in Turkey. The Palestinian Er Ram and 

 the Egyptian Heroum are one and the same, doubtless connecting 

 with the Armenian Erzeroum. Attikeh prius Fostat, Fastu or 

 Astu, where Cairo now is, must not be altogether disconnected from 

 the Indian region of Attock, the Palestinian Athach, and the Greek 

 state, Attica. From a very early period the Arabs were familiar 

 with the name of the Egyptian town Athribis, as applied to their 

 own Yathrib, and the Greeks of Oeta and Parnassus in vain attempted, 

 by means of drus, the oak, and ops, a voice, to turn their form Dryopis 

 into the original of the Laxireate's " Babbler in the land," the Talk- 

 ing Oak. 



Turning from names of places to those of things, the old Egyptian 

 word, UK, presents itself as intimately related to our Saxon equiva- 

 lent, week. Chrb is the name of the rolling beetle, which encloses 

 Its eggs in a ball of manure and earth, and rolls this ball sometimes 



i» Strab. ; 1. iii ; c. i ; § 9. ^^ Aeliani de Animal, xv, 8. 



