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neighboring mountains of Imaus, before without a name, received one from them, after a city near the lake of Genezerth?. Those who belonged to the tribe of Issachar?, were called in their own country, by the popular name of Ischars, Isars, Izors, (Josephus' Antiquities, C.? 8. ch 13. sec. 6. sec. 8), and by another corruption, Eighars, and afterwards, Igors. From the above-mentioned territory of this name, it is probable, those emigrated who lived on the Irtish, and were distinguished by their letters, from all the tribes of Scythia, and were called Igors. (4 Gibbon, 360.) There were there settled long before the subjection of their country by the Huns, which was 201 years before the Christian era. With a part of the Huns, they removed to the Volga about the year of our Lord 48, to avoid the Atans?; and from thence, about the year of our Lord 405, into the northern parts of Siberia, for fear of the Geongen?. (1 Herod. 320: - 2 Herodd 326: - 1 Gibb: 352: - 4 Gibbon 360: 7 Gibbon 204, 285, 293: - II Gibbon 406.) The remnant which the Huns left, afterwards became numerous by propagation, and spread to the mountains of Altai, in the centre of Scythia; and by successive changes were called Igours, Ogors, Ocgurs, Tochars, Tartars. That part of them which removed to the northern parts of Siberia, after lingering for sometime there,