"(observes the acute and accurate Major "Rennel), appear to have first used the term "SCYTHIA, in its application to their neigh"Bours the Scythians of the Euxine, whỏ "were also called Gete, or Gothi; and "were those who afterwards subdued the "Roman Empire: and from which original "stock the present race of people in Europe ແ seem to be 'descended." And again : "The Scythians of Herodotus appear to "have extended themselves in length from "Hungary, Transylvania, and Wallachia, on "the Westward; to the river Don on the "Eastward." This was the information which Herodotus was able to procure in the sixth century before Christ, when the interior of Europe was very partially known to the Greeks; and his report, as far as it goes, is in perfect agreement with that of Josephus, concerning the progress of Magogue and Gomer. In these same regions the Scythæ continued many ages after Herodotus, and even long after the time of Jose "Geogr. of Herod." p. 47, 48, 61, phus; for Dio Cassius, who lived 150 years after Josephus, and above 200 years after our Saviour, relates, that Pompey, in his return into Europe from Asia, “ deter"mined to pass to the Ister, or Danube, "through the Scythe; and so to enter "Italy." These were the original Scythæ. But Herodotus further reports, that a portion of this same people, in an afterage, turned back from the European seats of their fathers, and established themselves in Asia and from these sprung the Asiatic Scythæ, who in process of time almost engrossed the name to themselves. : From hence it would appear, that the name of Scythæ, by which name we are to interpret that of Magogue, although it properly denotes a nation of Europe, yet, if it be taken by itself, is of very vague and undeterminate import; so undeterminate indeed, as to admit of no accurate or particular specification. Wherefore Michaelis was led to remark; "that the name of προς τον Ιςρον ΔΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΣΚΥΘΩΝ ελθειν, παντευθεν ες την Ιταλίαν εσβαλειν,—Lib. xxxvii. c. 11. "Scythians is of such wide application, em"bracing nations so extremely different in language, origin, and local dwelling, "(since some include the Celts and Germans "among the Scythians,) that he who main"tains that Magogue signifies the Scythians, "has said little or nothing*." But the provident terms of the Prophecy have effectually guarded against the consequences of this uncertainty in the present instance, by associating with the name of Magogue another name, of precise and definite signification; by means of which, a determination is given to the name of Magogue in this prediction, entirely sufficient to limit and fix its application. This is the name of GOMER, "called GALATE by the "Greeks;" and the oversight of this most material circumstance, is one of the many marks which betray the superficial and fanciful manner in which the learned commentator, just mentioned, has conducted his interpretation of these proper names. * Ibid. p. 26. But, since the name of SCYTHE, (i. e. Magogue,) is here to be considered, not by itself, but in geographical connexion with GaLATE, or GOMER, we have only to inquire, whether any geographical affinity is really ascribed by the Greeks to the Scythe and Galata? and to ascertain, to what regions of the earth those names, so associated, were applied. If we can discover these two points, we ought thereby to have discovered specifically the Magogue of the Prophecy, which would be able to associate to themselves the region, or people, of Gomer. If we extend our researches concerning the Scytha to a later age than that of Herodotus, when the continent of Europe was more extensively known, we shall find that Diodorus Siculus, who lived about a century before Josephus, traces them much farther into Europe than the Danube; even to the shores of the Baltic, and to the very confines of the GALATE of the Greeks. In speaking of the amber found upon the shores of that sea, he there places the region expressly denominated, "SCYTHIA above, or North of, « GALATIA " ή ΣΚΥΘΗ, ή υπερ την ΓΑΛΑ TIAN*." In which description we at length find the SCYTHE, or Magogue, in the immediate neighbourhood of the GALATE of the Greeks, or GOMER. And have we need to inquire, who were "the GALATE of the Greeks" in the time of Josephus? It is most astonishing, that any scholar should have put himself in active search for an object which lay so closely at his foot; yet such has been the extraordinary proceeding of the same learned German. GALATIA, Fanaria, is the common and familiar name used by all the earlier Greek historians for, GAUL, the Gallia of the Latins; and GALATE, Tanarai, is no other than the common Greek name for the GAULS, or Galli of the Latins: as every one knows, who has ever opened the histories of Diodorus, Strabo, Plutarch, Appian, or Dio Cassius †. * Lib. v. c. 23. +" "Græci Galliam гahariav (Galatiam), et Gallos " Tararas (Galata), ut plurimum appellant, atque sic "Polybius, Siciliota Diodorus, Dio Cassius, Josephus, "Pausanias, alii: posteriores autem cum Latinis |