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Asia. And in another place lie says that they invaded " now 

 Paphlagonia, now Phrygia, until Midas is said to have met his 

 death by drinking the blood of a bull," a statement that wears 

 a fabulous look and makes one think tliat he is speaking of 

 the lirst Midas, King of Phrygia, who is alleged to have been 

 contemporary with Silenus, the teacher of Bacchus, and to 

 whom are ascribed sundry marvellous and incredible adventures. 

 Lastly, there are distinct traces left in geographical and regal 

 names of a very early migration of the Ashkenazian branch of 

 Gomer's family, which we have seen to be really indicated by 

 Herodotus and Strabo.* In Bithynia on the borders of the 

 Propontis (or Sea of Marmora) there was a Lake Ascania ; in 

 south-western Phrygia there is another ; and midway between 

 them lay Troas, in whose royal family we find in the days of 

 the Trojan War a prince Ascanius. N'ow princely names are 

 specially apt to be repeated after very long intervals : thus we 

 have a thousand years intervening between Sargon I. of Agade, 

 and Sargon II. of Mneveh, and many hundred years between 

 Tiglath Pilezer 1. and Tiglath Pilezer 11. of Assyria ; and 

 again we find Eamses II. of Egypt calling one of his sons 

 Khamus after his god, Khem, or Kham, whom we know to 

 have been his ancestor Kham, the son of ISToah. 



Again, bearing in mind our before proved point of the common 

 descent of the Phrygians and the Ashkenazians from Gomer, it 

 is remarkable that some of the classic poets should call the 

 Trojans Phrygians, so much so that as Phrygia Minor it is marked 

 upon Kiepert's ancient maps. 



What then do we conclude ? That these two lakes bore the 

 same name through being at or near the northern and southern 

 boundary of the tribe of Ashkenaz, when a portion of it first 

 migrated westward from the plains of Shinar, while another 

 moved eastward to the Caspian Sea ; and further that the royal 

 house of Troy were probably descendants of the eldest stock of 

 the western Ashkenzians, and repeated the name of their ancestor 

 at intervals. 



Now if Ashkenaz found the descendants of Tiras (or the 

 Thracians, as Josephus affirms, and I hope in an after essay to 

 prove, them to be) already in occupation of the plains of Thrace, 

 with a rearguard in Bithynia (as they are abundantly proved to 

 have had by allusions in Herodotus and Strabo), and if the 

 Eiphatheans had already (as is likely from their reaching Britain 

 before 1600 B.c.)t spread themselves over the south of Eussia, 



^ Strabo, I, i, 10, and iii, 21. 



t Vide ante, p. 140t. 



