616 THE HORITES. 



Heslibon in Moab.* Among those of Ezar, Akan, or, as lie is called in 

 1 Chronicles i. 42, Jakan, gives vis the important family of the Beni 

 Jaakan, dwelling in Arabia Petrsea (Kumbers xxxiii. 31). Of the 

 sons of Dishan, Uz appears to hare been the first or most important 

 settler in the land of which the patriarch Job was an inhabitant. 



Dr. Hyde Clarke has already shown in several of his admirable 

 papers, that the geographical names of Palestine are those of the 

 world.® The majority of these names I have good reason to believe 

 are eponymous. The Horites, who left little or no traces in Pales- 

 tine, on account of their early emigration to other lands, did not, on 

 that account, suffer their names to perish, but still " called their 

 lands by their own nam.es " in whatever part of the world these were 

 situated. Latopolis in Egypt and Latium in Italy represent Lotan. 

 Hori gives Heroopolis, also in the land of the Pharaohs, and unnumi- 

 bered similar designations of towns in Europe, Asia, and Africa. 

 Shobal appears in the Lydian Sipylus and in the great SabeUian 

 family of Italy. Alvan, or, as he is called in 1 Chron. i. 40, Allan, 

 furnishes the Egyptian Ilahoun, and the famous city Ilium of the 

 Troade. Manahath is the founder of Mendes, and Mandara or 

 Month-ra, and also had his name conferred upon Monetium of the 

 Japodes, like the Eneti, an Illyrian people.®''^ Ebal, in the form of 

 Gebal, appears in Phoenicia, and the character of the initial sound is 

 at once seen in the form Byblus, which consists in the prefix of the 

 Coptic article. Onam we have already connected v^ith On or 

 Heliopolis in Egypt. The Colchian city ^a may be a reminiscence 

 of -'^jah, while Anah is almost proved to be the progenitor of the 

 Eneti by the fact that their ancestor in the Welsh mythical history 

 is Gwynn, a word which reproduces the power of the initial Ayin of 

 the Hebrew name.' The sons of Dishon seem to have sent colonies 

 to Persia, for Hamadan, Ispahan and Teheran are too near Hemdan, 

 Eshban and Ithran to be accidental. In Eshban we also find 

 Hispania, while Ithran and Tyrrhenia agree. As for Cheran, no 

 form is more common in universal geography. Aziris in Libya, and 



6 Geseull Lexicon in loc. 



8 I beg here to express my puWic acknowledgment of Dr. Clarke's valuable suggestions in 

 connection with the special subject of this division of the paper ; althougli the field to which 1 

 have confined my attention principally is geographically, and perhaps chronologically, different 

 from that in which he has pursued his important investigations. 



6* We find Soba, Alva and Mandara in close proximity. Lepsius' Letters, 163. 



^ Davies' Celtic Researches, 167". 



