Tarshish; Its Modern Representative.

famous mackerel sauce . Going farther westward , the Canary Isles were discovered by the same people . And in the interior of Spain , Hispalis , or Seville , was founded by them . Farther , it is recorded that , B . C . 610 , Africa was circumnavigated by a Phoenician vessel . Sir G . C . Lewis , in his " Survey on the Astronomy of the Ancients , " p . 448 , says that " the voyages of the Phoenicians to Cornwall for tinand to the coasts

, of the Baltic for amber , pass equally as historial facts . " Herodotus names the portion of Britain known as the Scilly Isles , if not all Britain , the Cassiterides , or lands of tin . Appian tells ns that the Spaniards of his time used to perform the vovages to Britain in half a clay .

In Clemens Romanus we meet with the phrase " the utmost parts of the west . " This was used when spealdng of the Apostle Paul ' s labours . The west included Spain , Gaul , ancl Britain . In the Epistles of Paul to the Romans Spain is mentioned ; and a native of Britain also—Claudia , who was married to Pudens , or Linus . See Horn , xvi ., 13 , and II . Tim . iv ., 21 . Martial mentions Claudia by name ( Epig . 54 , book xi . ); ancl Rufus or Pudens ( Epig . 13 , book iv ) . It is worthy of notice that about this timeanother British lad

, y was accused in Rome of having embraced a foreign superstition : Pomponia Grceeina , wife of Aulus Plantus , the first governor of Britain , and a distinguished general of Claudius . See Tacitus , Annal , book 13 , chap , xxxii . As bearing- on this point , we would mention that the Jews in England record a decree of Augustus Caisar in their favor , OS . 15 . In a work published by Aben Ezraentitled the " Epistle on the Sabbath" in the prefix it is stated

, , , " I , Abraham Aben Ezra , the Sephardy , have been in one of the cities of the island called ' the End of the Earth . ' Aben Ezra visited England in the reign of Henry II . The classical phrase is , ' idtimos Orbis Britannos ; ' the scriptual , " the isles afar off . "

Godfrey Higgins , Esq ., in his " Celtic Druids , " points out that the earl y Greeks knew more of Britain than the Greeks of Strabo ancl his time . Of Ireland he states , p . 107 , " Orpheus , or rather Onomacritus , mentions Ireland ; but , says Bochart , 'he learned the name and site of it from the Phoenicians : the Greeks at that time hacl not sailed into these parts . ' " Onomacritus lived 560 years before Christ . Polybiuswho lived only 124 years before Christ

, , acknowledges they knew nothing of the northern nations . " Itaqyue multa potuisse illis esse perspecta de occiclentalis oceani insulis cpuce Polybius dgnoraverit , " says Bochart , speaking of the trade of the Phoenicians to these islands . ( To be concluded . )

The Legend Of The "Quatuor Coronati."

THE LEGEND OF THE "QUATUOR CORONATI . "

From the Armidel MS ., 91 .

Concluded from page 241 .

TUNC abiernnt et fecerunt secundum consuetuclinem et operati sunt omnia excepto simulacro Asclepii . Post aliquos vero menses illi dederunt suggestionem Augusto

rilHEN they went away and did -L acccorcling to their custom , and performed all the work except the image of ifisculapius . But after some months the philosophers suggested to Diocletian Angus-