He mentions his surprise at finding a genuine Sanscrit word in Irish, which, like a geological boulder, had been transported from one extremity of the Aryan world to the other.

Pictet considers that the first wave of Aryan emigration occurred 3,000 years before the Christian Era.
[160] _Writing_.--"Finally, Dudley Firbisse, hereditary professor of the antiquities of his country, mentions in a letter [to me] a fact collected from the monuments of his ancestors, that one hundred and eighty tracts [tractatus] of the doctrine of the druids or magi, were condemned to the flames in the time of St.Patrick."-- _Ogygia_, iii.

30, p.219.A writer in the _Ulster Arch.

Journal_ mentions a "Cosmography," printed at "Lipsiae, 1854." It appears to be a Latin version or epitome of a Greek work.

The writer of this Cosmography was born in 103.