The Tuatha-de-Dananns seem to have been a civilized people; besides possessing ships and armies and working in the metals, they had an organized body of surgeons, whose duty it was to attend upon the wounded in battle; and they had also a bardic or Druid class, to preserve the history of the country and the deeds of kings and heroes.

According to the ancient books of Ireland the race known as “Partholan’s people,” the Nemedians, the Fir-Bolgs, the Tuatha-de-Dananns, and the Milesians were all descended from two brothers, sons of Magog, son of Japheth, son of Noah, who escaped from the catastrophe which destroyed his country.  Thus all these races were Atlantean.  They were connected with the African colonies of Atlantis, the Berbers, and with the Egyptians.  The Milesians lived in Egypt:  they were expelled thence; they stopped a while in Crete, then in Scythia, then they settled in Africa (See MacGeoghegan’s “History of Ireland,” p. 57), at a place called Gaethulighe or Getulia, and lived there during eight generations, say two hundred and fifty years; “then they entered Spain, where they built Brigantia, or Briganza, named after their king Breogan:  they dwelt in Spain a considerable time.  Milesius, a descendant of Breogan, went on an expedition to Egypt, took part in a war against the Ethiopians, married the king’s daughter, Scota:  he died in Spain, but his people soon after conquered Ireland.  On landing on the coast they offered sacrifices to Neptune or Poseidon”—­the god of Atlantis. (Ibid., p. 58.)

The Book of Genesis (chap. x.) gives us the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  We are told that the sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.  We are then given the names of the descendants of Gomer and Javan, but not of Magog.  Josephus says the sons of Magog were the Scythians.  The Irish annals take up the genealogy of Magog’s family where the Bible leaves it.  The Book of Invasions, the “Cin of Drom-Snechta,” claims that these Scythians were the Phoenicians; and we are told that a branch of this family were driven out of Egypt in the time of Moses:  “He wandered through Africa for forty-two years, and passed by the lake of Salivae to the altars of the Philistines, and between Rusicada and the mountains Azure, and he came by the river Monlon, and by the sea to the Pillars of Hercules, and through the Tuscan sea, and he made for Spain, and dwelt there many years, and he increased and multiplied, and his people were multiplied.”

From all these facts it appears that the population of Ireland came from the West, and not from Asia—­that it was one of the many waves of population flowing out from the Island of Atlantis-and herein we find the explanation of that problem which has puzzled the Aryan scholars.  As Ireland is farther from the Punjab than Persia, Greece, Rome, or Scandinavia, it would follow that the Celtic wave of migration must