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descent from Togarmah,* there was to be another set of 

 peoples who were descended from one or possibly from both his 

 brothers, but whose name or claim would betoken only that 

 they were descended from Gomer himself. And tl)is we have 

 proved to be the case ; for the Armenians and Armenio- 

 Phrygians rightfully affirm Togarmah to be their ancestor (as 

 the Georgians also claim, though probably with less reason, for 

 themselves and the Lesghians),f but, on the other hand, while a 

 goodly portion of the Kelts have been and are known as 

 Kimbri, Kumri, or Gumri, no other grandson of Japheth is 

 pointed to by the name of the rest, and geography concurs 

 with ancient history in proving that they once all bore the name 

 of Kimmerioi or Gimiraa, the children of Gomer. 



The expression " and all his bands " (or " hordes," E.V.), 

 which is used to describe only the contingents sent by Gomer 

 and Togarmah to that vast army, is not out of keeping with the 

 present distribation of the Armenians, who, besides being- 

 abundant in Armenia proper and Asia Minor, are very numerous 

 in Turkish towns on the western side of the Bosphorus, and are 

 thickly scattered in Eussia ;J but, as applied to the Gomerites 

 proper or Kelts, the description accords well indeed with their 

 status and geographical positions, for, besides forming six or 

 seven§ peoples separated from one another by intervening 

 nations of different origin, they are the chief basic element in 

 the great Eomance nations — the French, the Spanish and the 

 Italian. 



And here I would say something as to a theory which is 



* In both Ezek. xxvii, 14, and here the name is written with T instead 

 of T/i in the Hebrew text. 



t To judge by the comparison of languages made in Adelung's 

 Ifithridates, by means of tlie versions of the Lord's Prayer, the English 

 Cydofcedia is wrong and the Georgian speech is not akin to Armenian, 

 nor by the Welsh version with the Georgian version can we find any 

 resemblance to Welsh ; but Adehmg admits that many Ai-menian words 

 have worked their way into Georgian, and it may be that Armenian 

 conquerors, long before the Christian era, infused these together with an 

 aristocracy that passed-on Armenian traditions at the time when Georgia 

 appears to have been in vassalage to Armenia — at the time of the 

 BaV)ylonian and early Persian empires {Eng. Oycl.^ "Armenia"). 



I Which fact may also be covered by the descriptive phrase, "from 

 the utteimost parts of the north," as the R V. has it (see ante, p. 131 

 footnote I). 



§ To the six aforesaid ought to be added the Walloons in Belgium, 

 who are descended from the old Belgic Gauls, who number two millions, 

 and whose language contains more Keltic words than any other dialect 

 of Freuch {Charnhers' EnajcL, " Walloons ''). 



