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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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arried on anuninterrupted navigation for the sake oftrade, and planted many colonies inAfrica, and not a few in Europe in the they founded upon a peninsula ofEurope a city which they called Gad-eira, and erected works suitable to theplace, chiefly a beautiful temple to Her-cules, with splendid offerings, accord- THE CA XAANITKS.—PIICENICIA NS. 361 iiig to the custom of the Phoenicians.As this temple was honored at thattime, so also in later times, down to ourown days, it was held in great rever-ence. When the Phoenicians, in orderto explore the coasts beyond the pillars,took their course along the shore ofLibya, they were carried away far intoOceanus by a strong wind, and after Greeks and Romans was called (lades;that is, the modern Cadiz, which is themost ancient city in Europe Founding of ca-that has preserved its ^-fj^-^,,.name from antiquity. The rai adventures.date assigned by Duncker and otherantiquarians to this event is the yeariioo B. C.Close by the Phoenician Gades lay the
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PILLARS OF HLkCULLS—IJ being driven many days by the storm,they came to a large island oppositeLibya, where the fertility was so great,and the climate so beautiful, that itseemed, by the abundance of blessingsfound there, to be designed for thedwelling of the gods rather than men.Here we have a narrative full of inter-est. The Gadeira spoken of is knownon the coins by the name of Gadir, orAgadir; but in the writings of the valle) of the Guadalquivir. This receivedthe Phoenician name of Tarsis, or, as theHebrews have transmitted it, Tarshish.It was from this remote region that thehuge ships of the Phoenicians, voyagingto the Syrian coast and laden with theraw materials of a most valuable com-merce, were named by Ezekiel theships of Tarshish, We have now approached the conjec-tural parts of Phoenician maritime enter- )Q2 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. prise. That the sea eaptains of Siclonand Tyre and Byblus made their wayinto the Atlantie ean not be doubted.To what extent they explored the

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