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78 PHCNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

The term Cuh for “ town”’ or “ city,’ for this old town of the Khatti or Xatti in Shetland, where this ‘‘ Cassi’ Cross monument is recorded as having been erected, is of especial Hitt-ite significance. It is now disclosed as being obviously the equivalent of the common modern name ‘‘ Koi”’ fora “ town”’ throughout the old ‘“‘ Land of the Hittites” in Asia Minor, Thus, the old chief capital of the Hitt-ites in Cappadocia is still called Boghaz Koi or “ Boghaz town.” It also seems to me to be the Hitt-ite origin of the common modern term for town or village in Indo-Persia, namely the nasalized “ Ga(n)w.” It also seems to be the Hitt-ite origin presumably of the affix Cu, Go, Gow of place-names in several of the older centres of civilization in Scotland, such as ‘ Glas-cw ’—the old spelling of “ Glasgow ’’—and thus giving the meaning of ‘‘ Town of the Gaels (2?) ” ; ‘‘ Cads-cu ” or ‘‘ Town of the Cads (or Phcenicians),’ the old documentary spelling of Cadzow, the original name for Hamilton (residence of the premier Duke in Scotland) on the Clyde, with its old pre-Christian Cross (see Fig. in Chapter XIX.) ; “ Lar-go” on the Fife coast, with its cave-deposits of prehistoric men, “standing stones’ and pre-Christian Cross monuments ; “Linlith-gow,” an ancient residence of the kings in Scotland ; and so on.

Further evidence for the presence of early Khatti in the Orkney region is forthcoming from the district-names on the adjoining mainland. Thus “ Caithness,” the ancient “ Kataness ”’ or ‘‘ Nose (of the Land) of the Caiths or Kata,” a people who are now disclosed to be the Catti or Khatti (or Hittites). And the contiguous ‘‘ Sutherland’ was, up till the Norse period of about the ninth century A.p., called ‘“ Catuv’’ or ‘‘ Catland ”? or “ Land of the Cats,” that is, the ‘‘ Catti ” or Hitt-ites. And the Duke of Sutherland is still called locally “‘ Diue Cat”’ or “* Duke of the Cats” (7.e., Catti).]

Moreover, the tribal title given to Part-olon by Geoffrey above noted, as “‘ of the Bar-clenses’’ confirms still further his identity with the Phcenician author of our Newton Stone inscription. This prefix ‘ Bar’ is obviously the early contracted form of “‘ Barat,’ which was written by the Sumer-Phcenicians simply as “ Ba-ra”’; and “ clenses”’ is obviously a latinized form of our Phcenician’s Gydolownie ™’ or “ Groln ’’—the “ Uchlani”’ title of the Cassi tribe of Catti, which, we have already seen, represents apparently the Hittite

(hp, Mackay’s commentary on Ptolemy’s Geography of Scotland in P.S.A.S. 1908, 80.