Tarshish; Its Modern Representative.

The name Phoenicia appears , according to one author , to have its origin in the far East . From the work " India in Greece , " by E . Pococke , we glean the following remarks : " In Afghanistan , district of Bhini-Badam , near Lognrh , is Saidan . The first inhabitants were the Phainicas ; " and to show that emigrants from hence carried the names of their parent country with them , gives instancesfrom which we select a few : " In CanaanAcho—Acho , on a branch

, , of the Indus , near Basham , in the North of Cashmier ; in Canaan , the river Kishon , Carmel , and Dor ; in the Punjaub , the river Kishon or Kishen-gungariver Dor on the west and Carmel a little to the south ; in Canaan , Megiddo ; in India , Magadha ; in Greece , Makedonia . In Canaan' and Afghanistan we have Gaza , Dan , and Gad : in Canaan , Cabul ; and the same in the Punjaub . " A strong support for the above , and also for the assertion that the ancient

nations were not so ignorant of the various continents as is presumed , will be found in a valuable paper by Hyde Clarke , Esq ., in the Royal Historical Society ' s Transactions ( vol vi . ); article , " On the Epoch of Hittite , Khita , Hamath , Canaanite , Lydian , Etruscan , Peruvian , Mexican , etc . " Most valuable comparative tables are given by him to show how closely linked these various peoples must have been . To do justice to them copious extracts should

be given ; but this we cannot do . He says : " It was from India , and not from Babylonia , that we may , as said , assume that the stream of civilisation passed toward the Pacific ; and in India will yet be found the " origin and remains of early letters , the influence of which to this day will still be recognised . " In Sanscrit gold is Makshika ; compare Mexico . Take the name Carmel , in the Punjaub Carmel ; in Canaan , Carmel ; in

Cappadocia , Asia Minor , Carmala ; in Greece , Cromi ( Arcadia ); in Italy , Cremona ; in Spain , Karme ( Luntanca ) . Or Sidon , in Canaan ; Saidan , in Afghanistan ; Sidena , in Asia Minor , Lycia ; Sithonia , in Greece ( Macedonia ) . Compare Erech ( Genesis x . ) with Arica of Peru ; Calneh with Calanoche of Peru ; Ninue , or Nineveh , with TJnanue of Peru ; Calah with Colacote , Peru ; ancl Resen with Charasan , Peru . River names , as well as others , are given , which can be identified with names occurring in New Granada ( South America ) , India , Italy , Greece , Spain , Britain , Hibernia , ancl Asia Minor .

The ancient geographers must have been acquainted with Australia and the Australian islands , although their knowledge was lost by their successors . Is it not a strange coincidence that the rendering of Isaiah xli ., 12 , in the Vulgate , is " et ecce illi et aquilone , et mari , et isti de verva australi " the Southern land ?

Let us now , as a link , also , to connect various districts together , take up another phase of this subject of Phoenicia . Godfrey Higgins , Esq ., in his " Celtic Druids " ( p . 117 ) , gives an engraving of a Phoenician coin , brought from Citium , by Dr . Clarke . The one side has on it engraved " the lamb ; " the reverse , the " rosary and the cross . " Coins from Marathus in Phoenicia , from Cyprus , Cilicia , and Lycia , present , in addition to the usual ansate

cross , the equal-armed cross . Upon Phoenician vases also , ancl stone monuments , frequently in Asia Minor and also upon the coins of Philistine Gaza is the sacred cross sign , Swastika . " The monuments of the Assyrians , Persians , Phoenicians , and peoples of Asia Minor , display a yet simpler cruciform figure as a religious emblem , occurring partly alone , partly in combination with others . " The Budhists of India used the Swastika

cross ; " mostly , indeed , in a somewhat curved type . " The Labarum cross of ancient Baotria , as it appears on coins of the Bactrian king Hippostratus ( circ . A . C . 130 ) is pretty much the same as that on the coins of Constantine the Great .

' Upon urns and vases of ancient Etruria , as well as in the nei ghbouring districts of Upper Italy , it is well known that cruciform characters have been observed . " " Upon a mortuary urn of Etruscan work , discovered , remarkably enough , at Shropham ( Norfolk ) , " also . In varied forms , upon coins of the