THE BIBLE Ji'EDIGEEE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. 139 



called Ehee in Cambridgeshire and another called Rhea in 

 Staffordshire ; in both Ireland, Scotland and England there is a 

 stream called Rye, and in England, besides, one called Rey and 

 two called Ray. With this nomenclature compare the name by 

 which the Volga was known to classic writers — the Rha — and 

 it is seen to be Kumric. 



Again, according to Armstrong, says Taylor, don is a Breton 

 (and therefore Kumric) word for ivater, and formerly existed in 

 Gaelic, while tain is a Gadhelic (that is, northern Keltic) name 

 for the same element* : and so in England, in Scotland, and 

 in Ireland, there is a River Don ; in Ireland there is a stream 

 called the Bandon ; in England and in Scotland a Dun and 

 a Dean ; and in England, besides, a Dane ; while there are also 

 in England a Teane, a Teign, and a Teyn. With this compare 

 the names of the other three chief rivers of Southern Russia 

 both in their modern and in their classic form — the Don (or 

 Tanais), the Dnieper (or JDancqrris), and the Dniester (or 

 Danastris), as also the Donetz, the name of a large tributary 

 of the Don. 



Let us now examine the known Keltic lands along with 

 middle Europe. 



Whereas we have the Eoden in England, and the Rhodanus 

 (mod. Rhone) in Switzerland and France, we have the Rhadanau 

 in Germany. 



In Kumric dior (pron. dooer) means luater ; so we have the 

 Adour in England and France, the Douro in north-western 

 Spain, where we know the Kelts were settled, and the Durdan 

 in Normandy ; and we have the Oder in the heart of Germany. 



Rhin is a Kumric word connected with the aforesaid rhe, and 

 means that which runs ; and so we have the Reinach in 

 Switzerland, the Rhine in that country and Germany, and the 

 Rhin in Germany alone. 



Then avon in Kumric mQ^n^river] and so we have six Avons 

 in Scotland, two in Wales and Monmouthshire together, and six 

 in the rest of England, four Avons in France in the river- 

 systems of the Loire and Seine, two Avens and an Aff in Brit- 

 tany, and an Avaenoge in Switzerland! : and similarly we have 

 the Donau (or Danube) in Germany and Austria, the Bhanadait 



Isaac Taylor, Ibid., p. 138, note, Gadhelic means belonging to the 

 northern group of Keltic tongues — Erse, Gaelic, acd Manx. 



t Observed and added by the writer : it flows into the Lake of Geneva 

 between Lausanne and Morges. 



