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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
that the Carthagenian commander has penetrated at least as far as the fifth degree of northern latitude * . - ' Other writers there are who ascribe to the Phoenician navigators a much earlier antiquity , and assert with a considerable share of evidence , that a fleet of that nation sailed along the coast of Africa , and doubled the of ' Good Hopeas far back as Sesostrisking
Cape , , of Egypt . Nay , some writers contend , that the commerce of the Phoenicians extended to the new world itself . This suggestion arises from the description which Diodorus gives of a large island discovered , and inhabited by the Cartliagenians , in the Ocean , far beyond the Streig hts of Gibraltar . A Carthagenian vessel was , it seemsdriven by ' a tempest upon this islandof which the mariners ,
, , in their return , made the most luxuriant report . The love of novelty , and perhaps domestic oppression , engaged so many to embark for this terrestrial Paradise , that the senate of Carthage found it necessary to check this emigration . This discovery they endeavoured to keep a profound secret ; but it is evident , from Strabo , Pliny , and Plutarch , that the Greeks had , obtained some
information thereof . It has , therefore , been concluded by many authors , that these fortunate islands were the West India , and by others the Canary Islands . It is not possible to contemplate without astonishmentthe maritime power and opulence of these people . No nation of antiquity was ever equal to the Phoenicians , either in the opulence or extent of their commercethe number 'or grandeur of their colonies .
, , power , Their fleets brought from the East Indies to the shores of the Red Sea that world of spices , which they afterwards distributed to the most remote corners of the giobe . Spain found them silver , Africa o-old , Britain tin , and- from the shores of the Baltic they brought amber . Carthage , one of her colonies , contested the empire of the world with imperial RomeTo ive an idea of the power and
opu-. g lence of Tyre , we must make use of the emphatical language of Holy Writ— " O , Tyrus I thou hast said , " & c . See Ezekiel , chapter xxvii . ver . 3 , to endof ver . 2 ; . - By this warm and animated description of Tyre , we see that the trade of that city was boundless . It was , in fact , the centre of commerce rand in this point , prophane history coincides with Holy
Wntf . . ,. Of the method , or the instruments by which the Phoenicians directed their navigation , we know nothing , except that they guided their course by an accurate and scientific observation of the lesser bear . ' . Like oiir ' gallies , the Phoenician vessels went both by sails and oars . They had ships of different constructions , for war and commerce . Ships of war were long and pointed ; the merchantmen were broad , deep , and capacious .
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A View Of The Progress Of Navigation.
that the Carthagenian commander has penetrated at least as far as the fifth degree of northern latitude * . - ' Other writers there are who ascribe to the Phoenician navigators a much earlier antiquity , and assert with a considerable share of evidence , that a fleet of that nation sailed along the coast of Africa , and doubled the of ' Good Hopeas far back as Sesostrisking
Cape , , of Egypt . Nay , some writers contend , that the commerce of the Phoenicians extended to the new world itself . This suggestion arises from the description which Diodorus gives of a large island discovered , and inhabited by the Cartliagenians , in the Ocean , far beyond the Streig hts of Gibraltar . A Carthagenian vessel was , it seemsdriven by ' a tempest upon this islandof which the mariners ,
, , in their return , made the most luxuriant report . The love of novelty , and perhaps domestic oppression , engaged so many to embark for this terrestrial Paradise , that the senate of Carthage found it necessary to check this emigration . This discovery they endeavoured to keep a profound secret ; but it is evident , from Strabo , Pliny , and Plutarch , that the Greeks had , obtained some
information thereof . It has , therefore , been concluded by many authors , that these fortunate islands were the West India , and by others the Canary Islands . It is not possible to contemplate without astonishmentthe maritime power and opulence of these people . No nation of antiquity was ever equal to the Phoenicians , either in the opulence or extent of their commercethe number 'or grandeur of their colonies .
, , power , Their fleets brought from the East Indies to the shores of the Red Sea that world of spices , which they afterwards distributed to the most remote corners of the giobe . Spain found them silver , Africa o-old , Britain tin , and- from the shores of the Baltic they brought amber . Carthage , one of her colonies , contested the empire of the world with imperial RomeTo ive an idea of the power and
opu-. g lence of Tyre , we must make use of the emphatical language of Holy Writ— " O , Tyrus I thou hast said , " & c . See Ezekiel , chapter xxvii . ver . 3 , to endof ver . 2 ; . - By this warm and animated description of Tyre , we see that the trade of that city was boundless . It was , in fact , the centre of commerce rand in this point , prophane history coincides with Holy
Wntf . . ,. Of the method , or the instruments by which the Phoenicians directed their navigation , we know nothing , except that they guided their course by an accurate and scientific observation of the lesser bear . ' . Like oiir ' gallies , the Phoenician vessels went both by sails and oars . They had ships of different constructions , for war and commerce . Ships of war were long and pointed ; the merchantmen were broad , deep , and capacious .