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184 HISTORY OF THE
them the implements ofivorship of the En3'alian Jove, and
came to Senaar (Es-Ain-Ar) in Babylon. But they were
again driven from thence by the introduction of a diversity
of tongues," &c. (of religious opinions?)
On these fragments, Mr Isaac Perston Cory
remarks as follows: —
" What concurring circumstances might have operated to
the dispersion, we have no clue to in the narrative of Moses.
He mentions the miraculous confusion of the languages, and
that the Lord scattered the people abroad from thence upon
the face of the earth, and they left off to build the city. But
if we may credit the heathen accounts above referred to, with
which the Hindoo, and indeed almost every remnant of tradi-
tionary lore concur, a schism, most probably both of a poli-
tical and religious nature was the result (cause ?) ; a bitter
war carried on, or at least a bloody field was fought ; from
which the Scuths, defeated and excommunicated by their
brethren, betook themselves, in haughty independence, to the
mountains of Cashgar (Cu-Esh-Og-Ar?) and the north."
Here we have the Esh-Cuths, Scuits, Scots, or
man-dog worshippers, by contraction 'Scuthics,
Scythics, Scythians, being beat by the JS?i, or
river-worshippers, assuming their high — their
mountain independence sufficiently early, as more
favourable for their astronomical purposes. The
reader will find that Asiatic Ethiopia, and African
Ethiopia, or Nubia, with their adjoining territories,
were Cuthic. The Belgse in Gaul, the Pelasgi in
Greece, the Sacus (Es-Cus), the Palestine (Ap-
El-Es-Tau), and Phoenicians (Eph-Ain), were
Cuthics, or 'Scuths. The root will be found over