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
208 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
of the Thames, from the western border of New Troy or London, northwards to the Wash and Humber; and thus included the modern counties of Middlesex (West), Herts, Bucks, Oxford, Bedford, Northampton, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Nottingham, Rutland, Leicester and Lincoln. (For details see Appendix IIL.)
Similarly, from Somerset in the Severn Valley, we find, a series of the early “Catti’’ names radiates through Cambria or Wales to some extent, but more freely through Cumbria to Dun Barton (or “ Fort of the Britons’’) with its Cumbree Isles. The very free distribution of this Catti and Barat title in Somerset or “ Seat of the Somers” and in Gloster, with its relative absence in Wales and mainly confined there to the Severn coast, suggests that Somerset and Gloster, with the northern bank of the Severn estuary, from Caerleon or Isca on the Usk to Gower, formed the real Cymry Land; and that the title Cymri or Cambria for Wales and the Welsh people was presumably a later designation, after the non-Aryan Welsh Silures and cognate Pictish tribes had obtained their Aryan “ Cymry ” speech from their Aryan Catti Barat rulers and civilizing colonists of Somerset and Gloster in the Severn Valley. (The detailed distribution of the “‘ Catti’’ names in this area is given in Appendix III.)
Similarly also, from Dun-Barton and the Frith of Clyde, at the top of which Ptolemy significantly located the “ Gadeni”’ tribe (7.e., the Gad or Phoenicians) we have Catti or Gad names in Arran (or “‘ Land of the Arri or Arya-ns’’), the “ Kumyr Isle’ of the Norse’—with its prehistoric Stone Circles and barrows on the flanks of Goat Fell, the ancient Kil-Michael and Cata-col with the legend of an ancient Gothic sea-king slain by the aboriginal chief Fion-gal, the Fein.? And in the adjoining Bute is Kil-Chatian or “ Church of Chattan,’ with its prehistoric standing stones, facing the Cumbre Isles. In Glasgow an ancient boundary
+ Arran (called by the Norse Kumy ey-ar or “‘ Isle of the Kumr or Cymri”’ and Sudr-eyiar or “‘ Southern Isle ’’) is anciently spelt Aran, Arane, Aren, as well as Arran—see J. McArthur, Avtig. of Arran.
* New Statistical Account of Scotland, ‘“* Arran.”