. 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 . r an evo-lution of civilization. The soil was fertile. date-palms. The vine and olive flour-ished, and all the fruits and vegetationwhich we have mentioned as belongingto the Syrian cliinate abounded, eitherby nature or easy cultivation. To theseresources and advantages must be addedthe fisheries of the coast, which m allages ha
. 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 . r an evo-lution of civilization. The soil was fertile. date-palms. The vine and olive flour-ished, and all the fruits and vegetationwhich we have mentioned as belongingto the Syrian cliinate abounded, eitherby nature or easy cultivation. To theseresources and advantages must be addedthe fisheries of the coast, which m allages have yielded a rich reward to themwho ply the net. It was natural under such situationsthat an early civilization should beplanted in Phoenicia. Some of the old- 348 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. est cities known to history were estab-lished on this coast. Tradition carries back the date of the found-Phoenicia a fa- .vorabie seat of ing of Sidon to a remote civilization. i j- i i /tm. and fabulous age. 1 he in-scriptions of Sethos, or Scti I, of Out of the nature of the case the com-mercial life must spring up and flourishalong the Syrian coast, commercial lifeFurther and further the ad- ^from th;venture of the fishermen mariners would carry them, until a. VIEW OF TVRE.—Drawn by H. A. Harper. Egypt, make mention of Sidon as one ofthe cities conquered by him—a recordwhich could not have been made if sucha city had not existed. Tyre, which wascertainly younger than vSidon, was aflourishing city as early as the close ofthe twelfth century before our era. knowledge of foreign shores and the re-sources of distant countries would beadded. Thus the means of larger lifewould be brought to the Phoenician citieswith the consequent stimulus to enter-prise and achievement. It would appear that from the very THE CANAANITES.—PHCENICIANS. 349 earliest ages the Sidonians and Tyriansbetook themselves to the sea, and beganto draw from distant coasts the meansof subsistence. Herodotus
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