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before tbe confounding of tongues was Aramiac, or wliat 
is commonly known as Chaldee, and that the Hebrew, Arabic, 
and Syriac, were off-shoots of that language, like Italian, 
Spanish, and Portuguese as being a corruption of Latin. 
I must not trespass on your patience in making further 
quotations from the opinion of other travellers and writers 
about this topic ; but I shall merely confine myself to giving 
you a few examples of some words in the English language, 
which have come to my observation, resembling Semitic 
meaning. Firstly, I must begin with the Arabic analogy, as 
follows : 
Hand, jo yad ; eye, ain ; neck, anelc ; 
between, ben; crimson , yfi Kirmiz ; to cut, cuta ; 
to drub, dumb ; house, housh. 
Next comes the Chaldee — 
At, P ad ; cornet, coren ; cry. Ip era; eye, eyn ; 
de, de, jl* of (French) ; barn, bar , a son (old English), &c. 
The following are English and Hebrew synonyms : — 
Among, Dtf am ; and, "tf? ad ; cane, rup cana ; cumin, |e:> cumon ; 
cutup, *)5Tp cusup ; fig, fig; fruit, ’is fri; and he, Kin hoa, 
in all the Semitic languages. Also earth, papa, mama, and 
a number of the numerals.* 
The most quaint resemblance that I have seen between the 
English and Semitic languages is in the common phrase 
tally-ho ; because tally in Chaldean means fox. When a 
fox-hunter, therefore, calls out “ tally-ho,” it means, in 
Chaldean, the <( fox-ho ; 39 or, if this call was taken originally 
from the Arabic, it means “ come here \ 33 because JU; taal 33 
in the latter language means (c come,” and “ hon 33 f here. 
Perhaps these two words of taal-hon were corrupted originally 
to tally-ho : but, if this resemblance occurs only as a coin- 
cidence, it is certainly a very curious accident. 
As regards prophecy and the divine promises made in the 
Old Testament to Abraham and to his seed in general, they 
have been wonderfully fulfilled. It is related in the third 
verse of the twelfth chapter of Genesis that God said to 
Abraham : “ And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse 
him that curseth thee, and in thee shall all families of the 
earth be blessed.” In the eighteenth chapter of the same 
# The Chaldee and Hebrew words are found in the Englishman’s Hebrew 
and Chaldee Concordance. 
t This word is a corruption of Ixfc hinna } as is used amongst some Arabic- 
speaking people in Mesopotamia. 
