THE  CANADIAN   JOURNAL.

                    NEW  SERIES.

       No.  XCIIL— JANUARY,  1877.
 

THE EASTERN ORIGIN  OF THE  CELTS.

                 SECOND PAPER.
 

                   BT JOHN CAMPBELL, M A.,

           Professor of Church History, Presbyterian College, Montreal.



  In my last paper on this subject I mentioned an important Celtic

family  which did not  trace its descent  directly from  Gilead, but

which, nevertheless, sustained intimate relations with his line.   Gael

and Cymri, according to Niebuhr, were  the two great  components

of the Celtic stock.1  Joseplriis long before had been struck with the

connection of the two names, and  accounted for it by deriving the

Galatians from the patriarch Gomer, in which he has been followed

by a large number of writers coming down to the present day.2  It

was, however, with no intention of tracing the family of Gomer or

the origin of the Cymri that I commenced the researches in the

departments of  comparative geography  and  mythology that have

resulted, as  I believe,  in  fixing the relations of the latter.   The

result, entirely unexpected and even astonishing to myself, was the

consequence of a legitimate  and full, but by no means exhaustive,

induction from geographical facts and mythological statements ex¬

tending over a wide field.  It rests to  a  great extent, although far

from exclusively, upon the collocation of names in the topographical

nomenclature and mythological genealogies of many peoples.  I do

not claim that all the names mentioned by me refer to the personages

whose descendants I seek to trace.  These are so numerous that time

has not permitted me  to  make that minute investigation into their

history which would enable me to write  with certainty.  A  few of

them I have already brought forward in totally different connections,



    1 History of Rome, ii. 520.       8 Joseptms' Antiquit. I., n. 1.