And when Lugad had made an end, all repeated their oath to have vengeance for Ith's blood, and all besought Marcad to speed their departure. Now preparations are made thro' Gael-ag, and what time Baal entered the threshold of the mansion of his blessed fire, behold on shipboard the clann of Breo-ccean Gaal of Sciot, of Iber, Nomades, Ogeageis, the memorial of our race, of those who had escaped the captivity of Sru, and the wrath of Baal taking their departure from Gael-ag perhaps for ever, having sojourned here, four hundred and four score and four rings precisely. NOTE TO CHAPTER XXIII. This chapter gives an account of the proceedings of this tribe after the battle of Samur, which laid all the Peninsula, the present Spain and Portugal, at the feet of Sesostris; in consequence of which, this Gaal or tribe of Iberian Scythians inhabiting Galicia, determined on abandoning their country, rather than live in subjection, and accordingly Ith, prince of Breo-ccean, took his departure for the island westward of Breotan, for the purpose of exploring it, that in case a settlement thereon should be found practicable, the nation might remove thither. The speech of Ith, and the tale of Lugad, the son of Ith, are so full that no words are wanting in explanation. Ith having recommended the emigration to Marcad, it was put in practice 1006 years before the Christian era, after a sojourn in Gael-ag of 484 years. THE CONCLUSION OF THE CHRONICLES OF GAELAG. Printed by J. M'Gowan, CONTENTS OF THE DEMONSTRATION. A Demonstration of the Original Seat, Nations, and II. From the dismemberment of the ancient Scythian Em- pire, and the building of Ba-bel by the Assyrians, in 2246, to the expulsion of the shepherd chiefs from Egypt, and their arrival in Pelasgia and Cero- peia, about 1100 before Christ IV. Of all the Scythian tribes that emigrated to the Isles of the Gentiles, south of the Ister, from the Euxine, East, to the Rhotian Alps, and Panonia West to the extremity of Greece South, from the year 2170, to the birth of Christ. Of the Scythian tribes that colonized the districts of Europe, from the western extremity of Italy, and the Rhotian Alps, to the German Ocean, between the rivers Danube, and Rhine, north and the Gar- ronne south ·A Demonstration of the Original Seat, Nations, and Tribes of the Scythian race. PART I. THE Chronicles of Er-i, about to be presented to you, relate to events so very remote, I have thought fit not to confide the illustration of passages rendered obscure by time, to annotations solely, but to lay before you such previous information, as may enable you to see your way yet more distinctly, and as experience teacheth, that the surest method of explaining truth, detecting and exposing error, saving time by the avoidance of repetitions, and preventing confusion, is to commence with the origin of a subject, it is my intention to go as far back as the first syllable of recorded time, detaining you at the source, and through the different stages in our descent, no longer than will suffice for the forming your judgment with precision. The main scope of my design is to elucidate the history of that branch of the great Scythian family, at this day languishing on the emaciated bosom of unhappy Er-i, which is so blended with the history of a considerable portion of Asia, and a great part of Europe, that it will be indispensable to point out their original seat, from whence to trace not only them, but all those tribes in any way connected with them, and this I purpose to do from the evidence of the writings of the Scythian tribe of the Hebrews intelligibly expounded. Of Eolus, one of ancient days, of whom you have not heretofore heard, and on the authority of the concurrent testimony of antiquity, by means of similarity of manners and customs, institutions, laws, religion, and above all, by perfect identity of language, and this so clearly as to admit of no doubt, or farther question; and as Geography is the finger, Chronology the eye, Etymology the tongue of antiquity, I will annex a |