552 TH E X t h C H A P T E R OF G E N E S I S .
2. Ingam-ones. These embraced the Cimbri, the Teutones, and the “ Chaucorum genres
inhabiting west and north-west Germany.
3. /ste»-ones — as the Vindili of Pliny, included the Burgondiones, Varini, Carini, and
Guttones. Their place was north-eastern Germany.
For our purpose of simple illustration, it is not essential to detail the geographical territories
assigned to these names ; which, mutilated and corrupted by Roman orthography,
preserve as little relation to an ancient German pronunciation as the Indo-Germanic names
of GoMeR, MaGTJG, &c., do in our authorized version after passing through Hebrew transcriptions,
Septuagint corruptions, and the fabulous vocalizations of Jewish Rabbis of the
Masora. What we are driving after becomes evident at once, so soon as we tabulate the
genealogy of these tribes as we have done that of those in Xth Genesis.
Tuisco
M A R S .
I
Mannus
MAN
Ir.goev. Heririin. Istoev.
“ Noble.” “ Puissant.”
i
“ Illustrious.”
North-west Germany.
Central 1Germany. NortTireast Germany.
Cimbri, Suevi, Burgundians,
Teutones, Hermundiri, Carini,
Chauci. Chatti, Yarini,
Cberusci. G-otbones.
It would be easy to carry this method of illustration, which classifies the, mythical, the
geographical, and the patronymic personifications of nations in their true historical order,
through the traditions of different races all over the world. We content ourselves by indicating
to fellow-students the utility of a simple process'that has solved mhny a ‘“vexata
quæstio ” encountered in our personal researches : especially when studying the Persian
genealogies of Firdoosi’s SJiah-Nameh ; as we hope to show elsewhere; —* G. R. G-]
Section 0.—O b se r v a t io n s on th e accompanying “ M a p of the"
'W orld. ”
1st. The parts in black indicate what the writer of Xth Genesis
knew not: those shaded represent where his knowledge decreases;
it heing unfair, no less than impossible, to define his information by
a sharp line. Other explanations are given on the Map itself.
2d. The great alteration, which onr results superinduce, is the prolongation
of his geographical knowledge (hitherto unsuspected) along
the whole of B a r b a r y , between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara
desert. Former African delusions are curtailed-at the First Cataract,
Syene ; southern extremity of the Egyptians, MiTsBIM, proper. The
compiler of Xth Genesis knew nothing of “ Ethiopia” above ; nor is
any afistral land beyond Egypt mentioned by a single writer in the
Old Testament; because Chub (Ezek. xxx. 5), GTJB,/conjectured by-
Bunsen, after Ewald, to be gXTJB, Nubia, is an unnecessary effort
when we can identify it with the Barbaresque Com of Ptolemy the
geographer [supra, p. 515].
ore Jktercaiors projection/, exhibituuj $Èjk COJ7NTKJES more/or less Jmown/to the cuicient Writer oflOW 'OE jOE SIS.
MAP OF THE W O U LD ,