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Turan of Eastern Persia, Turan South of the Caucasus, 

 the cradle of the Turkish nation ; the present Turcomania; 

 the Thurgaw; the Canton of Uri ; the Thuringian forest ; 

 and if we take the root from the Southern and Eastern 

 Tavpos, Taurus, we find the Tauric Cherso-nesus; the Tauri 

 a Sarmatian tribe ; the Taurini inhabiting Italy, near the 

 present Turin, fyc. In most of the countries, the gigantic 

 Urus has left his remains, or the more recent Urus has 

 been known to herd. In the same manner, the words Ox, 

 Ochs, Opstws, derive from the same original language, ap- 

 plied it seems both to the domestic animal, and to rushing 

 waters : thus the river Oxus, or the Gihon or Ghayon, the 

 Cow-river, perhaps figuratively on account of its source 

 rising from an ice-cavern like the Ganges, representing a 

 cow's mouth. The word implied a title of power, and is a 

 proper name : Ochus occurs in Persian history, Okous a 

 bull, is a common name among the Curds (Coords), and 

 oth e r Caucasian (Gaw-cas) tribes * Boyr, Bos, and the Ara- 

 bic iJb Bakr, Koe,Kuhe, Cow, Gaw and Ghai, are evidently 

 from a common root descriptive of the voice of cattle. 



To pursue the thread of this philological inquiry could 

 scarce have deserved attention ; but that it indicates the 

 original station whence the languages derived, and the 

 identity of the animal designated in its different states, 

 wherever it was found by the tribes descended from the 

 Caucasian race. In the Ossemens Fossiles, Baron Cuvier 

 traces, in a luminous manner, the Urus of Caesar to the 

 large skulls still not unfrequently found both on the con- 

 tinent and in England. Among the most anciently known 

 and celebrated, is that in Warwick Castle ; there is another 

 in the British Museum, and there are many in the museums 

 abroad. All are nearly one-third larger than the skulls of 



* This list could be greatly extended in names of provinces, tribes, 

 and men, of ancient Central Asia. Both this root and ur unite in 

 their primitive meaning of spreading, circumfluent, surrounding. 



