FRIDAY is from _Frea_, the earth and goddess of love, answering to the Venus of the Greeks. In some languages it is called _Freytag_.---- See Mallet's North. Antiquities. I will just add, it is a weighty argument in favor of the truth of the Scripture history, and of the opinion here advanced of the common origin of languages, that in all the ancient and modern European alphabets, the letters are of a similar figure and power, and arranged nearly in the same order.[146] The true Greek letters were only the Cadmean letters reversed: This reversal took place early in Greece, when the ancient Phenician and Hebrew order of writing from right to left, was changed for the modern order, which is from left to right. The Hebrew or Phenician Alphabet was clearly the parent of the Greek, Roman and Gothic. [B], page 52. The reader will please to accept the following specimen, which will convey an idea of the whole. _Punic._ Yth al o nim ua lonuth! sicorathissi me com syth chim lach chunyth mum ys tyal myethi barii im schi. _Irish._ Iath all o nimh uath lonnaithe! socruidhse me com sith chimi lach chuinigh! muini istoil miocht beiridh iar mo scith. _English._ Omnipotent, much dreaded Deity of this country! asswage my troubled mind! Thou, the support of feeble captives! being now exhausted with fatigue, of thy free will, guide me to my children. In this example the affinity between the Punic and Irish is striking; and the same runs thro the whole speech. That Ireland received colonies from Spain or Carthage is probable from other circumstances. The Irish historians say their ancestors received letters from the Phenicians; and the Irish language was called _Bearni Feni_, the Phenician tongue. _Cadiz_ in Spain was first settled by Phenicians; and _cadas_ in Irish signifies _friendship_. The Irish seems to be a compound of _Celtic_ and _Punic_; and if Ireland was peopled originally from Carthage, and received colonies from thence, the event must have been subsequent to the first Punic war; for this was the period when the Carthaginians adopted the Roman letters, and there is no inscription in Ireland in the Phenician character.