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would neither grant them peace nor a truce, lent 

 colonies to that ifland, but kept the affair fecret, in 

 order that they might always have a fecure retreat 

 in cafe of neceffity. Other authors, whom de 

 Hornn does not mention, have alledged, that thefe 

 voyages were carried on without the knowledge of 

 the government, who, perceiving that the country 

 began to diminifh in the number of its inhabitants, 

 and having found out the caufe of this diforder, 

 prohibited that navigation under very fevere penal- 

 ties. 



The third and laft migration of the Phenicians. 

 to the New World was occafioned, according to 

 this author, by a three year's voyage, made by a 

 Tynan fleet in the feryice of Solomon. He afferts, 

 on the authority of Jofephus, that Efion Geber, 

 where the embarkation was made, is a port in the 

 Mediterranean. This fleet, he adds, went in queft 

 of elephants teeth and peacocks to the weftern coaft 

 of Africa, which is Tarfijh : this is likewife the 

 opinion of Huet : then to Opbir for gold* which is 

 Haiti, or the ifland Hifpaniola : Chriftopher Colum- 

 bus was of the fame opinion, according to fome, as 

 Vetablus certainly was. De Hornn returning af- 

 terwards to the Atlantick iflands, would fain per- 

 {bade us, that the Phenicians have, at divers times, 

 fent colonies thither, and that the Cerrie of the an- 

 cients is Grand Canaria, for which name it is in- 

 debted to the Canaanites, who took refuge there. 



One of the Canary Iflands is called Gomera : de 

 Hornn makes no doubt that it derives its name 

 from the Amorites, who went to fettle there after 

 they had been driven out of Paleftine by the He- 

 brews. Ought we to be furprized, if after this he 

 finds the Cham of the Phenicians in the Chemez of 



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