which Henry of Huntingdon, in his history (Book I.) relies, and the 

 earher period of it will not only accord with the Irish historians of 

 the greatest veracity, who unanimously assert, that the Scots arrived 

 in Ireland from Spain at the time when Solomon reigned in Jeru- 

 salem,* but will also synchronize with those days of more adventurous 

 Phoenician colonization, typed in the pursuits of Cadmus and Phoenix 

 for Europa ; and more explicitly detailed in the Periegesis of Dionysius, 

 who, writing about the time of our Saviour's birth, makes large men- 

 tion of that illustrious people, their having dwelt originully on the Red 

 Sea, their adventurous voyages, mercantile pursuits, knowledge of 

 astronomy, and numerous colonies in various countries of the world, -j" 

 to which Quintus Curtius aptly adds, " that they selected as settle- 

 ments tor their youths, lands unknown to all other nations. ";]: And 

 this colonizing of " unknown lands," if faith is to be given to the 

 Chronology of Sir Isaac Newton, points accurately to the era of their 

 discoveries in the Northern Seas, and their several acquirements under 

 the impulse of avarice or necessity of which Homer,§ Plato, ll (Elian,** 

 Sallust,-f -f and numerous others make such distinct mention. " In 

 truth," says Roustan, " these Phoenicians successively overran the 

 shores of the Mediterranean, and even penetrated to the ocean, 



• See Ogyg. Extern, p. 83. ,Oiq ^iro't <yf 



t OtS' oXoc fyywc eoi/rtc ETrwvujutjjv ^oiviKic, 1'^ flil'f i^.llfO'j 



T(DV 8' avdpMV 7£v£r)c oi EpvOpaioi yeyaaviv, DlUi ,ViJntJOD 

 Oi wpoiToi. vriiaaiv sirupijaavro ^aXa<T<TJjf, ;BsJli'/i3 bosdliii 



TJpuToi S' tfiTTOpirts aXidivtog tftvnaavro, •_, {, . i • f 



Kai fiaOvv ovpaviuv acrrpojv rropov sfpaaaavro, &C. 



DioNYs. Perieg. v. 905, &c. 



t " Ceteris incognitas terras elegisse sedes juventuti." — Quint. Curt. 1. 4. c. 4. 



§ Odyssey, lib. 15. v. 414, &c. || Resp. lib. 4. 



*• Var. Hist. lib. 4. c. 20. f f Bellum Jugurth. 



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