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THE MEDITERRANEAN NATURALIST 
Tarshish was her , , 7 r , , ; 
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Meshech ,ed at her fairs. Javan, Tubal o n a 
and r Tere her merchants, they traded in sla ves 
£ vessels of brass in her markets: they of the 
Muse of Togarmah traded in her fairs with horses 
and horsemen and mules. The men of Dehan were 
her merchants; they brought her, for a present, 
horns of ivory and ebony . Syria was her mer- 
chant, and traded with her in emeralds, purple 
broidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate. 
Judah, and the land of Israel were her mer- 
chants; they traded in her market, wheat of Minnith 
and of Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. 
Damascus was her merchant for the multitude of 
the wares of her making, for the multitude of all 
riches, in the wine of Helbon and white woo 1 i ‘an. 
also, and Javan, going to and fro, occupied in her 
fairs; bright iron, cassia and calamus, were in her 
market. 
Dehan was her merchant for precious cloths , for 
chariots. 
Arabia and all the princes oj Kedar, they occu- 
pied with her in lambs , and rams, and goa ts, in these 
were they her merchants. The merchants of Sheba 
andRaamah, they were her merchants; they oc- 
cupied in her fairs with chief of all spices, and 
with all precious stones and gold. Par am, and 
Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, 
or edifices of such perfect taste and sublime pro 
portions, the contemplation of whose mutilated 
ruins fill the cultured mind with mute delight. 
“ Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth! 
Immortal though no more, though fallen , great". 
Byron. 
Here Alexander — meteor like — for a moment 
ruled the destinies of the world, and as immedia- 
tely his colossal empire collapsed and fell to the 
ground. 
Schliemann tells us that in excavating at His- 
sarlik he found the remains of one city under the 
other in repeated order each indicating the work 
of reconstruction after a terrible defeat and des- 
truction, the older excavations bringing to light a 
civilization prior, by centuries, to that described 
by Homer. 
But men of such primitive greatness knew 
nothing of the decrepitude of modern times, and 
were not to be baffled: they began again afresh, 
and the new city soon arose in all its splendour. 
“ Comes not a low whisper from the ground, 
A sigh as though the immemorable past 
Breathed here a long, slow breath ? 
Lost nations sleep below ; an empire here. 
Is dust; and deeper, deeper still , 
Dim shadowy peoples are the mould that warms 
The roots of every flower that blooms and blows:" 
Sharp. 
and Chilmad were her merchants. 
These were her merchants in all sorts of things, 
in blue cloths , and broidered work , and in chests of 
rich apparel , bound with cords and made of cedar , 
among her merchandise. The ships of Tarshish did 
say of her in her market, and she was replenished 
and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 
When her wares went forth out of the seas she filled 
many people; she did enrich the kings of the earth 
with the multitude of her riches and of her mer- 
chandized 
Do not such such extensive and varied imports 
and exports seem almost comparable to those of 
the largest ports of the present day? 
Proceeding to the north we reach the classic 
lands which have been the stage of full many of 
the noblest deeds of humanity, the birth-place of 
not a few men of transcendental wisdom; than 
which no other people ever possessed language so 
musically chaste and so expressive, art so refined, 
Both parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 
skirt the Adriatic shores whose few ports possess a 
primary importance for a great portion of Southern 
Europe. Placed in the vanguard of European 
civilization, the work of the Austrian government 
is peculiarly arduous, and the integrity of her ter- 
ritory is a pledge for the protection of Europe 
from the inroads of barbarism. 
Here we have unified Italy, the outcome of 
Magna Graecia, Etruria, Rome, and other illustrious 
predecessors; a land which has produced such 
men as Julius Caesar, Augustus, Cicero, Virgil, 
Archimedes, Dante, Michel Angelo, Cavour, Gari- 
baldi, Victor Emanuel. Rome once ruled the 
destinies of the world, but fell because’her citizens 
could not govern themselves, enfeebled as they 
were through rapine, corruption, and effeminacy. 
Who shall measure the rivers of human blood for 
which Rome must one day answer; blood of mas- 
sacred nations, blood of Christian martyrs ? 
