6 Before Chrift, about 1800. 



cattle and flaves, conflituted the principal wealth of individuals. Abra- 

 ham had ' flocks and herds, and filver and gold, and men-fervants and 

 ' maid-fervants *, and camels and afles.' Abimelech gave to Abraham 

 a thoufand pieces of filver, befides cattle and flaves. 



Manufadures were by this time fo far advanced, that not only thofe 

 more immediately conneded with agriculture and pafturage, fuch as 

 flour ground from corn, wine, oil, and butter, andalfo the mofl; necef- 

 fary articles of clothing and furniture, but even thofe of luxury and 

 magnificence, were ufual ; as we learn by the ear-rings and bracelets, 

 jewels of gold, jewels of filver, and other pretious things, prefented by 

 Abraham's fteward to Rebekah, the intended bride of his young maf- 

 ter, and to her relations. \Gc7ie/is, cc. 9, 13, 18, 19, 20, 24.] 



About this time Inachus, called by the Grecian poets of after ages 

 the fon of the Ocean, but probably a Phoenician f, arrived in Greece, 

 and founded the kingdom of Argos in the peninfula afterwards called 

 Peloponefus, and now the Morea. His daughter lo, while flic was pur- 

 chafing fome goods from a Phoenician veflel, which had been five or 

 fix days trading in Egyptian and Afl}^rian merchandize at Argos, then 

 the mofl flourifliing city of Greece, was, together with fome other young 

 women her attendants, feized by the crew, and carried to Egypt. \^He- 

 rodot. L.'\,c. I.] 



It is the opinion of feveral learned commentators, that the converfa- 

 tions in the book of Job are tranflated from a work compofed by Job 

 himfelf, that his refidence was in Arabia, and that he was contemporary 

 with the fons of Abraham. That book throws a great deal of light up- 

 on the commerce, manufidures, and fcience, of the age and country 

 wherein he lived. Gold, iron, brafs, lead, chryflal, jewels, and other 

 luxuries, together with the art of weaving, are mentioned in cc. 7, 19, 

 28, 42 ; merchants in c. 41 ; gold brought from Ophir (wherever that 

 place was) which infers commerce with a country apparently re- 

 mote, and topazes from Ethiopia, c. 38 ; fliip-building, and that 

 fo far improved, that fome veflt;ls were conflruded fo as to be particu- 

 larly diftinguiflied for the velocity of their motion j:, r. 9 ; writing in 



• Tlicfi- were not fcrvants in tl;c modern ac- c, i.] Jofcplius, who confulteJ many frood au- 



ceptation <if tlic word, hut flnves, hispioperty, and thors, now loil, fays, that ii ciily tinies, tlie rhcE- 



hoiight wiih liis money. See Cen.fts, c. I 7. nicians were the navi;rators wiio cnnvirycd tlie fiift 



f There can be h'ttle rcafon to doubt, that tlie knowlcRe of the Egyptians and other nations 



name of Jnachus (l»x;j-e-) is tlie f^mc word with lo the Greeks. [^Contia ^Ijiiwem, L. \.~\ 



Enak or /Innk, a Piia-niciaii liile of th'gnity. The % The commentators arc fat from agreeing tip. 



learned liochart fcems with good rcafon to think, on the meaning of the words, trandiited ' fwift 



that tlie genuine name of the Phccnicians was Bm • fiiips,' in the Englilh Bible. Jcroin trandates 



yliink, (the foiis of Anak) of which the Greek them ' naves poma portantes,' fliips carrying ap- 



word "I's/fik 1; is a corrupted contraiflion. ^Vc learn pics. The invcniion of rafts, the very firil rude 



from V\a\\\\,3 \ Paiiu! nil. ^,/i. z'j that the Car- c (fay in navigation, was afcribcd to Ei^thras, a 



thagiiiians, a rha'nieian colony, called their city (pcihaps imagir.ary) king of fome part of the 



CA</^/rc-/^nrt/f, the rcfidcncc of the Anaks. [6'1/m- coad of the I'trfian gulf. \_Sli-abo, L, xvi, />. 



lirlmid'i Stinconialho, j>. 2-1.— Bccharl, Chan.L. i, 1 125 Plin. llijl. nal. L. vii, t. 56.] 



