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(3) The Phoenicians were lineal blood ancestors of the Britons and Scots; the Picts, Celts and Iberians being non-Aryans :
(4) There is in Scotland a bilingual Phænician Inscription, dating about B.C. 400, and dedicated to the Sun.god Bel by a Cilician prince froni Asia Minor, who calls himself Phoenician, Briton and Scot:
(5) This prince is the 'Part-olon, King of the Scots' of the chroniclers Geoffrey and Nennius (Ninian):
(6) King Brutus (Prat or Prwt), the Trojan, and his Briton colonists about B.c. 1103 dispossessed an earlier colony of kindred Britons in Albion and named the country Britain, the land of the Brits, where they left Phoenician and Sumerian inscriptions, which show the Phoenicians to be Aryan in race, speech and script :
(7) Their monuments also afford clues to the Phoenician and Hittite homeland of the Aryan Phoonician Britons in Syria, Phoenicia, and the Asia-Minor of St. George of Cappadocia and England:
(8) The Phoenicians, as the sea-going branch of the ruling race of the Aryans, diffused the higher civilisation throughout the world
(9) Many things peculiarly British are traceable to Phænician origin; e.g., St. George and the Dragon, the Red Cross of St. George, the Crosses of St. Andrew and St. Patrick, Britannia as a tutelary goddess, the Lion and the Unicorn:
(10) The whole family of Aryan languages, with their scripts including Ogam, are of Phoenician origin through Hittite and Sumerian, which last are synonymous terms:
(11) The earliest Aryan religion was Sun-worship, symbolising the One Universal God by the True Cross, as seen on the ancient Briton coins of the Catti and Cassi Kings of the pre-Roman and pre-Christian periods in Britain.
(12) The Phoenician colonists transplanted the old cherished homeland names from Asia Minor and the Phoenician colonies on the Mediterranean borders to Britain :
(13) They furnished the agricultural and industrial life of Britain and made London its commercial capital.
(14) They created the art of Britain on Hittite-Phoenician models :
(15) The Aryans of Britain, the Britons, are the Western Bharats', who are linked with the Eastern Bharats of India, whom Waddell calls the "Brit-ons of India."
(16) The Aryan Britons or British still inherit the gen-faring and commanding aptitudes of the Phoenicians and their maritime supremacy.
It will be seen at once how widely Waddell has cast his net and how much proof his contentions require. Let us see how he has gone to work on the vast problem he has set himself to solve. It will be seen from the very beginning that his method is startling.
The heading of the first chapter is as follows "The Phænicians discovered to be Aryans in race and the ancestors of the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons." And then he gives us two quotations from Indian works which are typical of his argument. I now quote them in full :". The able Panch (Phoenician), setting out to invade the Earth, brought the whole world under his sway.'-Mahabharata, Indian Epic of Great Bharats. 'The Brihat (Briton) singers belaud Indra .... Indra hath raised the Sun on high in heaven.... Indra leads us with single sway.'-Rig Veda Hymn.” To these quotations Waddell adds a note :"On Bribat, as a dialectic Sanskrit variant of the more common Bharat and the source of Brit or Brit-on see later." We have here therefore the equivalence of Brihat and Bharat and Waddell's argument also is apparently that Brit-on derives from Brit-Bharat-Briha:. From Bharat comes Mahabharata. Bharat here in Sanskrit is, however, really Bharata, while Brihat is a method of writing Brhat, the derivative of which would be Barhata and
1 Waddell writes this name 'Barate. 1 I shall throughout write Bh where Waddell has 'B,
