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tiram, the Latians terminus. It was threm, thrim in Gothick; and the 

 English word to trim, in its original sense, is' derived from it. 



The Tin islands were certainly within the tir of Swe'tam, and of Cach-- 

 'ha; from that circumstance they were probably denominated Cach'ha-tir, 

 Thus they say in India, Jungle-terry, (Jangal-ieri,) ordistrifts within the 

 iir, or on the borders of the jungles or woods. Hence the vAite lead or tin, 

 that came from those islands, was called Cassiteris by the Greeks; Raster in 

 Suio-Gothic; Castira in Chaldaic, and Arabic. In Lidia, at least in Sanscrit, 

 tin IS called Tiram : Tir-trapu, and Rangafn are also other names for it ; 

 but Rangam is generally used in the spoken dialects : and Tir-trapu sig- 

 nifies the tin, that comes from the tir or tiram or extremities of the world. 



^Swe'tam is repeatedly declared to be the abode of resplendence and 

 refulgence, as we have observed before. Cirn'na in Sanscrit is a most ap- 

 posite term for this ; and it seems that ^Swetam was known under that name 

 in the west. Stephanus of Byzuntium, and Pal^Phatus place an island" 

 called Cyrene near the columns of Hercules. Phorcus, says the latter, was 

 a native of Cyrene, and his kingdom was beyond these pillars. Phorcus will 

 appear, in the course of this work, to be Va'raha or Vara'haca, the boar 

 of the Pur an' as, vjho was born in ^Sweta the resplendent. Cirn'na or Cy^ 

 rene is connedled with the fables of the Hesperides, and Gorgonis placed 

 by Pindar and Apollodorus, among the Hyperboreans. Thus it ap- 

 pears that ^Sweta was the western Cerne. The PFhite Island in the 

 southern Tri-ciWa, answering to 'Swe'la in the west, is the island of Su- 

 matra ; whicli, as well as the peninsula o{Malacca,is supposed, by the PaU" 

 rdnics, the Jfuhian geographer and others, to be adjacent to the great 

 island of Sanc'ha, part of v/hich retains to this day its ancient name, being 

 called Zingis, Zcn^ &c. The island of Sumatra is then the eastern -Cf;?;^, 



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