Thus lived the inhabitants of man, But now Saint Patrick soon arrives, And o'er the waves Mananan drives With all fubmiffion to the very ingenious editor of Fingal, nothing feems more evident than that the perfonage characterized by the King of the Mifts, (p. 4.) and in the poem (p. 13.) must have been no other than this fabulous King of the Isle of Mann, and not any King of Sky or the Hebrides as the compile fuppofes. Thus the province of Ulfter in Ireland, and the Western part of Scotland, being made the dominion of Fingal, nothing could be more natural than for the Bard to introduce Mann, an ifland lying in full view of both. (a) There is a tradition that Mananann was fon to the King of Ulster, and brother to Fergus the IId. King of Scotland, placing him in the third century, in the faine manner as the Bards bring Offian down to the time of Patrick; but these are all the inventions of idle Monks and Bards of modern times. The Kings of Mann were Kings of the whole or the greatest part of the Hebrides, Sky and all, as appears from the ancient records of Mann, where it is affirmed that the Representatives or Keys b) as they are called, were chofen 16 from the elders of Mann and eight from the other iflands, fo that the poet might call him either King of Mann or of the Hebrides. (a) See Preface. (b) Ce or Ke, Hib. Magnates, Perficè Ke Princeps. The The Manx poets are not behind their neighbours in compofi- מרבה יופי מרבה משאון מרבה האור מרבה עברון Ubi multa pulchritudo, ibi multa deceptio; (c) Oshin Mac Owm, or the fon of Om, the God of Terror. See IND E X, AND ADDITIONAL NOTES. A BRAHAM and Anobret, ftory of in Sanchonia Aho, copied from the Hiberno-Scythi Abraham difperfes the Southern Scythi, warring against the Canaanites Acmon, father of Uranus, 1ft King of the Atlantes, a first King of Perfia Adad, the fun, word of Irish origin PAGE. 428 362 xlviii II 397 the Elagabalus of the ancients ib. and Molochbal, Irish Deities Aifrion, the Mass, a Perfian and Chaldean word Aiteach Cotti, Scythians why fo called 214 202 ххіх Airgiod Airgiodlamh of Irish hist. Zerdust the First Alban, fignification of the name Algarv, etym. of the name Page 160 Alphabet cæleftial of the Chaldæans, explained Amarcall or fignum x of the Irish, explains the Immorcalim of the Hebrews. (See Thau.) Antra Mithra in Ireland xv, xxi viii, 521 207, 211 Anakim of Scripture, So. Scythi, ancestors of the Irish 150 Aodh-flaine of Ir. hift. Isaac of S. S. 428 Armeni, Aramai, Scythians XXV Armenians, their fabulous hift. fame as the Irish Arrarat, fo called from the Irish Aorth (a), a fhip (a) I think our Southern Scythian navigators have been miftaken for the Royal Shepherds, that made an irruption into Egypt, as mentioned by Manetho. The fragment is preserved by Jofephus, in these words :"We had formerly, fays he, a King named Timaus; in whofe reign, I know not why, but it pleased God to visit us with a blaft of his difpleasure: when on a fudden there came upon this country a large body of obfcure people from the East, and with great boldness invaded the land, and took it without oppofition. Their behaviour to the natives was very barbarous, for they flaughtered the men, and made flaves of their wives and children. The whole body of this people were called Hukfes or Ukfos, that is, Royal Shepherds: for the first fyllable in the facred dialect fignifies a King, as the latter in the popular language fignifies a fhepherd. These two compounded together constitute the word Hukfos. These people are faid to have been Arabians." "After |