The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

174 PHGINICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

appears to disclose the Trojan source of the name of the numerous favourite residential rivers in Britain called Esk, Usk, Exe, etc. Thus the river at the site of the Briton King Arthur’s capital of Caerleon in Monmouth was also called ‘‘ Isca”’ by the Romans, the modern “‘ Usk.” And just as there are several Isca, Esk, Usk or Exe rivers in Britain bearing this favourite name, so there were others in the Troad and Thrace.t Near Exeter, the Isca of the Romans is ‘‘ Cad-bury” or ‘‘ Burg of the Cads (i.e. Phoenicians),” with prehistoric ‘‘ camp ”’ mounds,

Further east, the next large river, the Axe, of Ax-minster, and famous for its textile products, has the same Exe or Esk or Isca name and has in the neighbourhood “ Caittistock ” with ancient ‘‘ Picts’ dwellings ”’ to attest its antiquity. Further east, we come to the “ Avon” (of Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, etc.) which bears obviously the same name as the “ Aban ” river of Damascus (mentioned in the Old Testament),? a Syrian city which was in the occupation of the Hitt-ites in the fourteenth century B.c.,3 and in which the “ Ad” of its name also means ‘‘ Water,” as does “‘ Avon ”’ in the Briton language. Passing Hants, where “‘ Barton-stacey”” and “ Barton-mete,” both with prehistoric remains, and preserving in their names the earlier form of the “ Barat ”’ title like Dun-Barton, we come to the Ancient Briton island-port of Se/s-ey or “‘ Isle of the Sels,”’ which, we have already seen on the evidence of the Phoenician inscription on its early Briton coins, means “Isle of the Cilicians.’ Beyond this, near Beachy Head, is the Ouse, which is clearly named after the “ Aous ” river of Epirus, which separates the latter from Macedonia. And the ‘‘ Thames,’ the “Tamesis"’ of the Romans, is clearly named after the ‘‘Thyamis,”’ the greatest river of Epirus, the Phoenician origin of which name seems evident by its chief tributary being named ‘‘Cadmus,” the name of the famous colonizing and civilizing seaking of the Phoenicians, with its chief city port “Ilium,” a title of Troy, and the port of the next river to the north is named ‘‘ Phoenice.”

Arrived at the Thames, thus evidently named by Brutus after the chief river of Epirus in Greece, whence he had just come, bringing his princess bride, we are told that he ‘walked along the shore and at last pitched upon a place

1 A Sceus river in Troad and Thrace (S. 5900) and Axus or Oaxes in Crete. The name Sea, dvi and Use seems cognate with Sumerian Agia or Eea, ‘Flood (of Euphrates &c,” cp. Br. 11593) and akin to Sanskrit Ux ‘to sprinkle,” Trish-Scot and Gelic Uisg, “river,” (and root of “Whisky ’’) and Latin 4gua.

*2 Kings, 5, F2. + ALL., 139 and 143.