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the Gygaean Lake and the foot of Mount Tniolus* — well known 

 features of Lydia. 



The ^laeonians took the name of Lydians, our author adds, 

 from Lydus, son of Atys ; who reigned a long while before 

 1217 B.C., the date of the accession of Agron ascertained from 

 Herodotus's chronology ;t though it is far more likely that they 

 as Maeonians were then conquered by a tribe bearing the name 

 of Lydians ; and that there was such a tribe preyiously dwelling 

 to the east of them and descended from Lud, tlie fourth son of 

 Shem, I hope on a future occasion to show. 



The Carians claimed to be aborigines of Caria. The only 

 other account that we possess of their origin — that given by the 

 Cretans! — makes out that they formerly dwelt in Crete under 

 the name of Leleges, and that there under King Minos and his 

 successors they became the most famous warriors in the world, 

 as well as the inyentors of crests upon helmets, leather handles 

 for shields, and the first deyices upon shields ; but that they 

 were at length driven out by the lonians and Dorians. 

 Thucydides, howeyer, really supports the former account, 

 besides showing how the race spread in tlie early ages, when he 

 states and giyes strong eyidence, tliat before the time of Minos 

 the '• Carians " (not Leleges) settled most of the iEgean Islands, 

 but were great pirates, until under the sailorly Minos nayigation 

 improyed between them, and he compelled those who still 

 carried on piracy to emigrate. § 



In either case, the Carians did not form part of any con- 

 quering race called Lydians ; and we must therefore conclude 

 that they were a brother people to the Maeonians — a conclusion 

 that is confirmed by the fact that Herodotus describes as 

 Maeonians a people liying in the mountains on the side of 

 Caria remote from Lydia, the Cabalians ;i| so that beyond doubt 

 the foundation stock of both Lydians and Carians was 

 Maeonian. 



Xow, just as we found the only local names from which the 

 term Europe could haye spread to haye originally been bestowed 

 upon a riyer and two towns within the sphere of Thracian 

 settlement in Europe, and not far from where the Thracians 

 must have first passed oyer to our continent, so do we find the 

 only local name from which the term Asia could have spread 

 to have originally btdonged to a tribe in Thracian Lydia — the 



^ Horn. II., II, 8G4-6. 

 % Her. I, 171. 



t Cp. Her. I, 

 § Thuc. I, 8. 



r. 13-16, and 25. 



y Htr. vii, 



