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out the Cresvaminam, or Brahmin distinguishing cord, as like- 

 oration of the painted divini 



Few traces of Ajamean or Japetian I ■ percepti- 



ble in the constituents of the an rptian and mo 



Copthic. The Hebrew and Arabic tivelyofi 



introduction. Originally the Egyptian form llabic, 



essentially different from both, though the Canaanite nations 

 of the same stock Bpoke a dialect of Chaldee, which in itself 

 mi • 'nt tongue, and might have been pre- 

 ceded in Syria by a different form, as it was subsequently 



i by others, since geographical localities of ancient Pales- 

 tine \\ intly indicated by two very different denomina- 

 tions. The Egyptian, no doubt, consisted of a sacn I 

 one which was used in all written docu red and legal, 

 while very diverging forms of speech belonged to different parts 

 of the kingdom. There was, particularly, one in the Delta, 

 another in Upper Egypt, and most likely the Cuthic above the 

 cataracts. Uch and Pharaoth, the most ancient words for king, 

 may nevertheless be both epithets, the first denoting high, 

 eminent ;* and the second, a mutation of Phre or Phra, recurs 

 in the Pelhevic proper names of ancient Persia, where it desig- 

 nates command or leadership; while in Egypt the same word 

 seems to have been appropriated to the sun, to exaltation and 

 beauty, in which sense it is equivalent to the Theotisk Frai, 

 Norsk Fager, handsome. Goshen or Goshan, in Egypt, and 

 Gauzan in Mesopotamia, do not denote a temple of the sun, 

 but literally the cow-land, the cattle-country. 



The Delta was most probably designated in Egyptian by the 

 name of Rab, since in Hebrew it was called Rahab. For ages 

 it gave shelter to pirates and roving clans, which, when they 

 had remained fixed during a certain period, had no means of 



* Uch. See Manetho. It may be remarked, that there was a tribe of 

 Uchii east of Persis proper, and that it was, according to Volaterauus, 

 from among this people the gypsey tribes first came forth. Uchii were, 

 therefore. Highlanders. 



