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and we can learn a little of how the business was then managed, 

 and probably for many years before and after, by the Phoenicians 

 wherever they went. He employed 153,600 Canaanites, of whom 

 70,000 were bearers of burdens and 80,000 hewers of wood and 

 stone, and 3,600 overseers. The Phoenicians were great slave- 

 holders and dealers in slaves wherever they went. In all their 

 colonies, whether in any part of the Mediterranean, North-West 

 of Africa, or in Spain, France, or England, we find vestiges of 

 their wonderful work of building in stone. 



I must again quote the words of Mr. Flinders Petrie from his 

 book on " Tel el Hasy, or Lachish." " This same peculiar 

 dressing (of the Lachish stones) is that of the stone work of 

 the temple of Hagir Kim at Malta. This temple is called 

 Phoenician, and what lends some support to this is, that just the 

 same system of stone tables, each in two blocks, placed around 

 the inside of the enclosure, is to be seen in the sacred enclosures 

 of the villages in Philistia to this day. The same pock dressing 

 is that of the wrought stones at Stonehenge, the best examples 

 of it being on the flat tops of the uprights of the great trilithons." 



The Phoenician discovery of the Cornish tin mines must have 

 brought about a grand era of industrial activity and influence of 

 the most extended kind. Professor Rawlinson says that the tin 

 of the civilised world was almost wholly derived from this 

 quarter. The tin had not only to be extracted from the mine, 

 but purified and made into ingots for export. Some of these 

 ingots have been found, showing to a certain extent the route of 

 their export. With their enterprising commercial spirit they 

 must have been penetrating to all parts of this country where- 

 ever trade of any kind conld be done, and naturally employing 

 the natives in all parts to carry out their enterprises. 



Since the foregoing was spoken in 1 896 I have seen dug out, 

 in 1898, another of the beehive huts at Coomb Quarry, Portland. 



This hut was 5 feet in diameter, with an arched entrance of 

 8 feet long ; the walls all of 9 inches thickness. In it were found 

 a pestle and mortar now in the Dorset Museum and thre'e 



