. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . rica, and not a few in Europe in the TRKASIRLS In SMLUMOX. on their passage through these pillars,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 NA A NITJSS.—PI IU-XI CI A NS. 361 lY
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . rica, and not a few in Europe in the TRKASIRLS In SMLUMOX. on their passage through these pillars,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 NA A NITJSS.—PI IU-XI CI A NS. 361 lYi^ to the custom of the 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 Gadcs;that is, the modern Cadiz, which is themost ancient city in Europe Founding of Ga- its diz and Tar- that has preserved -- ^uish; conjeotu-name from antiquity. The rai assigned by Duncker and otherantiquarians to this event is the yeariioo B. by the Phoenician Gades lay the. PILLARS OK HLKCULES.—Drawn by John OConnor. being driven many days by the storm,they came to a largd 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 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 writinps of the valley of the Guadalquivir. This receivedthe Phoenician name of Tarsis, or, as theHebrews have transmitted 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,
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