Tarshish; Its Modern Representative.

TARSHISH ; ITS MODERN REPRESENTATIVE .

BY BROTHER H . BEITTAIN , F . E . HIS . S . ( Concluded from page 282 . )

LET us now refer to Moore ' s " History of Ireland , " published in Dr . Lardner ' s " Cyclopaedia . " Moore says ( vol i ., p . 85 ) : — " Ptolemy ' s map of Ireland marks Ivernis , or Hybemis , as chief city of the Iverni , dwelling in the district comprised between part of Cork and that part of Kerry lying between the Promontorium Austrinum , or Mizen Head , and the river Kenmare , anciently called Iernus . " On the north-west coast of Spain is another riverknown as Ierneand a

, , promontory , Ierne . From pages 7 and 8 , vol . i ., of Moore ' s history , it can be gathered that Festus Avienus gave an account of the voyage of Himilco , left in one of the temples . of Carthage . This account , still existent in the 4 th century , states . that Himilco sailed northwards , along the shores of Spain , to the . iEstrumonides , or tin isles . Hiberni and Albion are named . The- commerce carried on by

the people of Gades with the tin isles is named , and he states that the husbandmen or planters of Carthage , as well as her common people , went to those isles . This implies that permanent colonies had been founded there . This expedition is placed before the reign of Alexander the Great . Bochart says the Phoenicians called Ireland our-nae ( Hebrew ) , that is , ultivvw IwibitaMa , and that Albin implies the East . Athcenus writes " that Phileas , of Taurominuim , was in Britain 160 years before Csesar . " Gades is named in a poem of Taliessin ( the appeasing of Ludd ) as Gafis .

" A numerous race , fierce they are said to have been , Were thy original colonists , Britain , first of isles ; Natives of a country in Asia and the country of Gafis , Said to have been a skilful people . " Is Gabis a capital of Gabaza , a province of TJsbek Tartary ? As connecting Britain and Spainlet us note that Evora or Eboracum was

, York , and Evora is to be found in Portugal ; that Brigantea , the country of the Brigantes , was in Yorkshire . Brigantia is also to be found in Portugal . To bring our notices of this part of Phoenician knowledge of distant countries to a conclusion . According to the statement in Ezekiel xxvii ., 12 , tin was known at Tyre B . C . 600 . Herodotus states that the Phoenicians had discovered mines in Samothracia . He also mentions the Cassiteredes and

the river Eridanus , from whence amber came . Larches says this river is the Rhodaune , which empties itself into the Vistuala , near Dantzic . "The strong city Tyre " is mentioned in Joshua ( xix ., 29 ) . And tin is mentioned as one of the spoils of the Midianites ( Numbers xxxi ., 22 ) . So early are we led to conclude that Tyrian enterprise and commerce had found its way into the distant isles . In a recent number of " The Jewish World , "

a paragraph appeared giving an inscription found in Northumberland ( near South Shields , we believe ) , in which the name of a Palmyrene was found . The Yenerable Bede died possessed of pepper , cimamon , and frankincense . Volney , in his travels ( vol . ii . ) , says the trade of Palmyra extended to India and the East Indies . The builder of Tadmor or Palymra was Solomon , the wise Master-builder ,