éafil^'Üicliiè^!fc’^^beRèV^^ltëy w#^a^grSat'p)atiK^f
W a F&glè ö f ë ïft^ a ö ö ^ B é t ttöfwfll1 bè éx|)laih,Jd- in
ïte\ própëf !blkce * ^öi^Pi'fif tfifé1 jd h d ^ t é r ' J ' *
Sbïv'WlïtMé fkr
# gfèkf MaffëfëjlQfjthat "Artp'tfKft W f hither.^! 1 r' ’; ’ * ■
rtit^èr Öië' fSrtïifer GbrifrrMtiöfi^f ^: |vhkï%- here* laid SÖtg§
I ffialïröiiff pWdütc; óöê'lnftance möbép knd
Hèad. ït is'kffirm’d b f'& ra d ü ? ^ !fófêè&_oötë|i|l
ttiöffc Northern£art opBritdny Was: andièh#y Jf¥ilëd
OrcaM ^^ó-w TWtle4)êMjg a ‘ Phoenician wóMv; fi^bi^in|
DkrkneiSi ^ 'a n
Infe,V Ê ?[ Phóenïtitekï ' ïnight fiveNf haï'^iWè jWtttófe
ïfknds; 'èitffëf': frorfï the< great; Shadows hP tMeir-
which Weré’thèn numerous!'’ ör the Shortnefs öftKfeif Pays,
iitahy of Which ató bütiFivëHóuréP ^Siiïce
may Mfonkbly fhppofe, PÈ&Mkdm
"mëit Northern pirtëptd me there aftpëafphö dMRMtf tè
éöhcëivéphow they might -' T&iifplahf
tancüjhïm rahd öte^urfcMIÉbthié^^^hè
Having how41 accounted forJ that River’ ftiléd hy-Ptolowy
^Bèllïfdrridi! and likewifë made it highl^pröbabréy! that the
‘Phoenicians were in thofe Partèj itrèthains in the iafb place,
-that I aflign fome CöiyéaureSy-Why afterwards that River
Was call'd Ri¥bëï. Concernirigthiathe Suppofitóóris aréva-
rfoüs, föitfe 'deriving it from^thè r a jffP O ftW which
to me fèélhS'irrationale fihcé Sew Which ia a iRhmdian
-Wórd, canhdt be accounted fót in the -Gtw^/Language.
Othferë Would makeit bht 1 dó hötyfehdw 'iii that
Liïhgua'gëthat can ‘bdkiiad© oüt'fyfince iö B iïtiflï \A®ón or
S'avon are the Names for River, which Wof dë cahnot bear
any relation to RMet. Wherefore, withfubmiffioh' to-the
more Knowing in thöfe Language^, it i'é;my Thoughts,
thatifirice-fr^m the-preceding dDopicks,;we: may reafonably
infer
infer:the Pih<&nicians^mefêA''m. thóUüfParts,. and cohabited
vrith the /?r^/zi«.c|gwhatbemg--aPCafclflfdfwaft Induflry and
in Navigation, might/roihlheir Neighbours,
th dy^^^4ftwdtk'lthkis Colonies,:';fsnd hith&r -feyera! of
thajfef.’Gountfry'nefFhetMhjdafisj as-, well as the^-in thofe
Days Deify’d their Rivers f foinetim.es ffeiling;then%Heaven>
and thetGods/and Góddefs\of,;Heaveiv:fi Wherefore Arrihel
in the Ar.menitkniLzngrxzgc s-$which ii|ithe Language confo,
móhly?#okéiin ^é’r ^ i ’ügnifying Heayen, tbehco Rïblet
may! b'etaccounted/for, and; not otherwife.* ' So far .as from
the Harmony: ,of Language^ I^aiii; ahlërióf^onjieéturey the
radical Letters in the Armsttfan' Lon'lije, and in, the River
now ftiled RikW^ibeing in. a-great meafure the^fatne ; and
the Rivers.thenf by; thofe People-, vbeing- fpiptmi^sjfliled
Heaven! Ï do not:fëe■ howlthat* confenf of Languages^nd
flifta^cari be rechhpiled,\fe|rtt-hy^fup^&fig people fiionic
that.Cburitry« inhabitingnmorifft the Byitains,^?:
Ird}he more clearly toiilluftrates- that the Brigands were
a Imixt People o£,iP'hoefiicians, ind Britwm, I fhall -produce,
but one*ihftancefmore, and upon that Head notdiirther pre-<
fnineiuphathe Reader’s Patience. The-Inflatfee ds taken
from a^RNulet, a Branch, .of that Riveti-beforejtreatpdt,of -
ftiled Ribbel; this Rivulet Iw at this day? vhigarly ftiled
Sdfligigitifoyfi ig in. the Britïjh Language bèing a Diminutiyèi‘
tor fhew the diftin<|tiöni|etw.ixtiaR%^ a Rivulet,which
is therefore added th jRson, which in that Language figni-
fies,a Riyer, jtfomgy and Savonig in the. ^ r i/^ Language
fignifying Rivulet, from thence may <&nfy lre Accounted-
fbr ‘-the Namè of that Rivulet now. ftiled $a<vig, girice-
therefore in thofei Parts we find aAmixtu|ecdSiPhoenician^
Armenian and Britifb Languagesj we may’ théhce make
this reafonabfe Corollary, that^ thofe People lived together.
And why they Wëré; üiled BHgantes, I prefume may hé 'ac-
couhted for from Tacitus, whS^véry likely might take ’em
to be a People from Gaul or Belgium, that is, from the Brigantines
Rovers and Pirates;;';fince in thofe Countries, to
C * ’ this