Before Chrifl; time uncertain. ii 



therto unknown in that country. According to fome accounts, Cadmus 

 was fent by his father in quefl; of his fifter Europa, ftolen away by Cret- 

 an adventurers : others fay, that he eloped from the court of the king 

 of Sidon with Hermione, one of that king's female nuificians. [^tben. 

 L. xiv.] 



In thefe ages alfo Danaus, another Egyptian adventurer, led a colony 

 into Greece in a great fliip with twenty-five oars on each fide, and, ex- 

 pelling Gelanor the hereditary king of Argos, reigned in his place. 



Some time after, Pelops arrived in Greece from Phrygia, and brought 

 with him riches hitherto unknown in Europe *. 



The arrival of thefe adventurers in Greece merits notice in commer- 

 cial hifi;ory only as fliewing, how common, and how eafy, the migration 

 of colonies by fea was in thofe ages, and how great an afcendant the 

 pofleffors of Ihipping and maritime power had over the more antient 

 inhabitants of Greece. Many other infiiances might be added ; but 

 thefe may fuffice. 



14^0 — ^The Ifraelites under Jofhua began to expell the Canaanites or 

 Phoenicians from a great part of their territories ; and their progrefs 

 was attended with prodigious flaughter of that devoted people. One 

 confequence of their irruption was, that Sidon and the other uncon- 

 quered cities of Phoenicia not having room for all the refugees, who 

 efcaped the exterminating fword of the Ifraelites, many Phoenician co- 

 lonies were fent out to eftablifli fettlements in various parts of the Me- 

 diterranean, who all keeping up a commercial intercourfe with their 

 mother country, the trade of the whole weftern world was carried on 

 by Phoenician merchants ading as agents to each-other over all the ex- 

 tent of the Mediterranean, then the only fea known by the inhabitants 

 of its flaores. 



Some Phoenician colonies in Greece have already been mentioned. 

 They alfo eftabliflied fettlements in Cyprus, Rhodes, and feveral of the 

 iflands fcattered in the /Egean fea : they penetrated into the Euxine or 

 Black fea ; and gradually fpreading weflward along the ihores of Sicily, 

 Sardinia, Gaul, Spain, and Africa, they everywhere efi:abliflied trading 

 pofl;s or fadiories, to which the wandering and favage inhabitants of the 

 adjoining regions, allured by the profped of advantage in trading with 



age ; and, according to Diodorus Slculiis, Orpheus times confidcrably diftant from each other. The 



ufcd Pelafgic letters, which were older than the hitlory of them is fo obfcured by fable, and per- 



Greek. [v. Plato in Cratylo. — Dlod. Sic. L. iii. — plexed by contraditlions, that the learned have in 



Paufan. in Attic. — Ihre Givfs. Sivio-Goth. pp. xxii, vain attempted to reduce them to regular chrono- 



xxviii, and Origin and progrefs of writing, iy Mr. logy, as is evident from numerous inllances of im- 



.<^/f, p. 66, note.'] Jofeph Scaligcr has a long poffible fynchronifms ; e.g. Perieres, the great- 



diflertation on the derivation of the ancient Ionic grandfon of Deucalion, married a woman, the 



Greek letters from the Phoenician. \_Animadver- eleventh in defcent from Inachus ; and his brother 



Jiones in Eufehium, pp. \o<^, et feqq. Athamas married one, who is placed as the fixth 



I have brought thefe feveral migrations toge- from the fame anceftor. 



thcr, though it is probable, that they happened at 



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