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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ir way to the west of Greece,and established themselves in Dodona.In the next place, they occupied thepromontories of vSicily and the smallislands circumjacent. On the southcoast they built the city of ^lakara, andon the west coast they founded Eryx,five thousand feet above the sea level,and built thereon a temple to the SyrianVenus. In Sardinia many Phoenician colonieswere established. In this island, iron,silver, and lead were found, and herebythe eagerness of the Phoenicians for valu- 360 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. able metals was whetted to an edge. Bythe elose of the twelfth century they hadDiodoms de- reached the western bound-aries of the Mediterranean,inter-esting account of the passage by the scribes Phoenician voyages and colonization. Diodorus tiives an regions lying to the west. When theirundertaking succeeded according totheir desire, and they had collected greattreasures, they rescjlved to traverse thesea beyond the Pillars of Hercules,which is called Oceanus. First of all,
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PHOENICIANS BRINGING TREA^URES TO S(_)LOMON. Phoenician mariners from the inland to on their passage through these pillars, the greater ocean. * From ancient times,says he, the Phoenicians carried on anuninterrupted navigation for the sake oftrade, and planted many colonies inAfrica, and not a few in Europe in the they founded upon a peninsula ofEurope a city which they called Gad-eira, and erected works suitable to theplace, chiefly a beautiful temple to Her-cules, with splendid offerings, accord- THE CA XAANITKS.—PIICENICIA NS. 361 iiig to the custom of the Phoenicians.As this temple was honored at thattime, so also in later times, down to ourown days, it was held in great rever-ence. When the Phoenicians, in orderto explore the coasts beyond the pillars,took their course along the shore ofLibya, they were carried away far intoOceanus by a strong wind, and after Greeks and Romans was called (lades;that is, the modern Cadiz, which is themost ancient city in Europe Founding of ca-th

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