Tarshish; Its Modern Representative.

5 . In connection with Tarshish being a merchant power , we remark also that the Septuagint of Isa . ii ., 16 , is , " Ships of the sea . " The common version reads , " Ships of Tarshish . " Here , Tarshish and the sea are equivalent terms . Thus far , we see that Tarshish is to be found in connection with places or countries east and west of Tyre ; that it is connected with ccmmerce , with manufactures , with money productions , ancl with the sea .

To proceed farther in the investigation of our subject . The recurrence of Tyre ancl Tarshish in the same passages of the scriptures cannot have failed to have been noticed . It is possible , and highly probable , therefore , we should contend that , before proceeding to find out traces of Tyrian enterprise , that in finding out where Tyre made its influence felt ancl known , we should also find some clue to Tarshish also at times . We all know that Tyre ( and Sidon ) was in Phoenicia . It is known also that the Phoenicians were very jealous as to their knowledge of distant countries being made known . A remarkable instance , of the secrecy and fidelity among them is recorded by Strabo ( book iii ., 5 . ) He

g ives an account of a 'Phoenician commander who ran his ship on a shoal in a voyage from Gacles to the Cassiterides , because he was followed b y a Roman Galley . On his return to Tyre , he was compensated by the State for the loss incurred by his act . The same historian says ( Strabo , iii ., 150 , ) Tartessus id the portion , lying south of the Baetis , or Guaclalcpriver . The Baetis was ^ calles the " Silver-bedded Tartessus , " by Stesicherus . Claudiaii names the greater part of Spain ancl Portugal Tartessus . ' See Claudiaii in Riif ., i ., 101 .

Tarseuim , says Stephanus , was a cit y near the pillars of Hercules . In the Essays , Ethnological and Linguistic , by James Kennedy , L . L . B ., pp . 56 to 58 , we find the information given whicli follows . The first accounts of Italy tell us of a people already settled there , known as Tyrrhenians . The principal writers of antiquity , with one exception ( Dionysius Halicarnassns ) , agree in stating that these people were a colony of Lydians . Tacitus mentions the Sardians as producing a decree of the Etruscans acknowledging their

descent from Lydia . Virgil calls the Tiber the Lydian Tiber . The name Tyrrheni is found also in Greece , confounded with that of the Pelasgi , and with other names in which the syllable Tyr is prominent . Lydia was in Asia Minor ( modern Smyrna ) . In Mysia , north of Lydia , was the river Tarsius . Midler and Niebuhr place the Etruscan era about B . C . 1000 , circa of Solomon ancl Hiram . F . W . Newman , in "Regal Rome , " says the Etruscan era belonged to the era of Phoeniciaand of Egypt .

, To come nearer to the parent city , Tyre . Josephus , lib . i ., 6 , states that Cilioia is called Tarshish . Its chief city was Tarsus . Ancl a river named Tarsus was known in Cilicia , a province of Asia Minor . The Mediterranean was known , also , and named as a sea of Tarshish . Jonah , in order to avoid the fulfilment of his mission , found a ship going to Tarshish , ancl embarked in it .

It is recorded that about B . C . 610 , Marseilles ( Marsala ) was founded b y Phoenician colonists ; and that the same people founded colonies at Agde , Antibes , ancl Nice . An inhabitant of Marseilles , B . C . 400 , went on a voyage past Spain , Aquitaine , Armorica , through the channel to the isles of Shetland , and then on to Jutland . Kenrick , in his Phoenicia , says that Melos , one of the Cyclades , was colonized

about B . C . 1200 ; North-Western Sicily about B . C . 736 . It was about B . C . 813 that Carthage was founded , and B . C . 1100 , Utica ; B . C . 1189 , Gades . ( Velleius Paterculs says about 80 years after Troy was taken—B . C . 1209—a fleet of Tyrians founded Gacles , and Utica a few years afterwards b y the same people ) . Pliny says ( Nat . His ., 16 ) , writing B . C . 77 or / 8 "Utica was built eleven hundred aud sevent-eiht " Pomponius

, ygyears ago . Mela , iii ., 6 , mentioning temple of Hercules at Gades , says the foundation of the temple was from the time of Troy . Carteia , near Gibraltar , was a Phcenician colony , and noted for preparing a . 2