340 "JEWS IN CORNWALL"; AND " MARAZION." 



of Tarshish,'-' belonging to Solomon and Hiram, sailed for a three 

 years' voyage. Professor Max MiiUert identifies tins with the 

 modern Ahaba, this being plainly a corruption of Gaher, dropping 

 altogether Ghazion, which I take to have been a dialectic variation 

 of Ghashon. This would make the name Port, or Mart, Gaher. 



Geber means " a strong or valiant man, a hero." Now in 1st 

 Kings, ix, 26, there are carefully added to the name particulars of 

 its situation, as if to identify it, and to distinguish it from some 

 other Fort Geher, also frequented by ships of Tarshish. JMay not this 

 have been one of the Phoenician colonies near the Straits of Her- 

 cules, now Gibrsbltsir 1 — either Gadir, now Cadiz ; or Carteia, found 

 in Pausanias as Carpia, which is somewhat like Geher, and is 

 thought to ]iave been on the shores of the Bay of Gibraltar. % 

 This would indeed make Gasion Gaher, " the port of the hero," || 

 peculiarly appropriate, and is preferable to the commonly received 

 rendering : " the giant's backbone," adopted by Dean Stanley. 



Want of space prevents our now entering upon the subject of 

 Jews' Houses, — a name given to old smelting works found in the 

 county. This term may be explained away, as the Professor shews. 

 But, having proved the connection of the Jews with the tin-mines 

 of the county, we see no more necessity for this than for attempt- 

 ing to explain away the well known Jeiv''s House at Lincoln. And 

 I think the occurrence of this and other such terms, as Jews' 



* " Ships of Tarshish" are generally understood to be those " calculated 

 for a long voj'age," such as that to Spain. Some make Tarshish mean " the 

 sea " ; and certainly J^iJ^"°^]^=Sa^acrcra, ^J ^ change of the liquid I into r. 



f Lectures on the Science of Language, Ser. i, p. 223. 



X Gibraltar is generally supposed to be corrupted from Jahal-al-tarik, 

 from the Ai-abicja6a/, a mountain, and Tarik, the name of the General ■who 

 conquered Spain in 712, first landing at this rock; but may not Gihr be a 

 remnant of the old enchorial name ? 



II Timosthenes and others say that Calpe, (another name for Carteia), 

 was founded by Hercules, and anciently named Heracleia. Gades or Gadir 

 was the chief Phoenician colony outside the Straits of Hercules, having been 

 established long before the beginning of classical history ; and one of the 

 islands on which it stood, was that on which Geryon fed the oxen which 

 were carried off by Hercules. The name of the "hero" seems to have been 

 given to the extreme point in any direction known to voyagers ; hence so 

 many promontories, ports, and islands named after him. Hartland Point' 

 was the HercuUs Promontorium of Ptolemy. Dr. W. Smith, in his Dictionary 

 of Greek and Roman Geography, gives five " HercuUs Fortus." 



