APPENDIX. 



ON THE TARSHISH OF SCRIPTURE. 



(AX APPENDIX TO THE PRECEDING PAPER.) 



THE question " What or where is Tarshish ? " has been of ten 

 asked, and often answered ; whether satisfactorily is another 

 matter. In the following notes I shall attempt, first, to col- 

 lect in order the data which Scripture affords for the deter- 

 mination, and then see how far by these we may be able to 

 identify the locality intended. 



1. Tarshish was situated to the westward of Asia. 



a. Because in Gen. x. 4, Tarshish is one of the descendants 

 of Japheth, not of Ham, or Shem. 



b. Because in Ps. xlviii. the ships of Tarshish are repre- 

 sented as threatening the coast of Palestine. 



c. Because in Ps. Ixxii. 10, Tarshish is associated with the 

 isles, the Hebrew expression for the maritime west. 



d. Because in Isa. xxiii. merchants are represented as 

 "passing over the sea," from Zidon, and from "the isle," (i.e. 

 New Tyre), to Tarshish. 



e. Because in Ezek. xxvii. 12, 25, "merchants of Tarshish," 

 and " ships of Tarshish," are represented as crowding to the 

 markets of. Tyre. 



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