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CHRONOLOGY.

Chapteu XLV 1 L Strabo a , mentioning the firft men who left the fea-

* Strabo, i. i.coarts and ventured ovt into the deep and undertook long voy-r ' 48 " ages, names Bacchus, Hercules, Jafon, Ulyfles, and Menelaus:

and faith, that the dominion ot' Minos over the fea was cele-brated, and the navigation of the Phoenicians, who went beyondthe pillars of Hercules and built cities there and in the middleof the fea-coafts of Afric, prefently after the war of Troy. Thefe*>nocfian. Phoenicians b were the Tyrians, who at that time built Carthagecaiaan. i. I *2 n Afric^ and Carteia in Spain, and Gades in the ifland of thatname without the Straights; and gave the name of Hercules totheir chief leader, becaufe of his labours and fuccefs ; and thatof Heraclea to the City Carteia which he built. So Strabo :

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* Canaa n. Melcartus; the king of Carteia. Bochart d writes, that CarteiaJ.6S2. 344 was at firft called Melcarteia, from its founder Melcartus, and by

an aphaerefis, Carteia; and that Melcartus fignifies Melec Kar-tha, the king of the city; that is, faith he, of the city Tyre :but confidering that no ancient author telis us, that Carteia wasever called Melcarteia, or that Melcartus was king of Tyre; Ihad rather fay that Melcartus, or Meleccartus, had his namefrom being the founder and governor, or prince, of the city Car-teia. Under Melcartus the Tyrians failed as far as TartefTus, ofTarfhifh, a place in the weftern part of Spain, between the two« Ariflot.de mouths of the river Boetis; and there they e met witb much lil-p. 1165. edit, ver, which they purchafed for trifl.es: they failed alfo as far as' Win. i. 7 . Britain before the death of Melcartus; for * Pliny telis us,c ' sh ’ " Plumbum