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that hast been forgotten: make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayst be remembered e. as in her early days]. And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre [i. e. give her strength], and she shall turn to her hire [i. e. merchandise], and shall commit fornification [i. e. have commerce] with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. the face of the earth. And her merchandise, and her hire, shall be holiness to the Lord [i. e. they shall prove the Sabbath :-they did so at Jerusalem, vide Nehemiah]: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD [i. e. house of Israel], to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And [so] it shall be, as with the People so with the Priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the gainer of usury to him. The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. When THUS it shall be [i. e. at the second and last fall], in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning of grapes when the vintage is done. They [i. e. the remnant] shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD,-they shall cry aloud [i. e. praise] from the Sea !" [Isaiah xxiii. & xxiv.]

Some of the Prophet's reflections have been omitted, as not being prophetical.

That the reader may not think that we have made an error in regard to a Remnant of the Tyrians being saved, the following quotation from the same Prophet is given, wherein the same figure of speech is used concerning the fall of Israel, and the safety of a small portion.

"And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of JACOB shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh [i. e. race] shall wax lean. And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of the olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel." [Isaiah xvii. 4-6.]

The comparison of the remnant of a nation, to the few remaining grapes upon the vine, or in the baskets, after a general gathering of the harvest, is used also by JEREMIAH in prophesying the destruction of Judæa, -the word "remnant" is distinctly used.

"Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my Soul depart from thee: lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Thus saith the LORD of hosts,-They shall throughly glean the REMNANT of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets." [Jeremiah vi. 8, 9.

The same simile is found in the Apocrypha. [2 Esdras xvi. 29-31.]

The preceding figure of speech used by the Prophets ISAIAH and JEREMIAH was evidently taken by them from the words of the first Lawgiver, spoken over seven centuries before, in reference to the stranger's, the widow's, and the orphan's right to the remnants of the field, and of the fruit trees. This law is practised and permitted even to this day, by that class of harvest-followers, called gleaners,—the modern Ruths, from the original of whom sprang the all-charity SAVIOUR! MOSES commanded that

"When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it:-it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow,-that the LORD thy GOD may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again,-it [the remnant] shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterwards,—it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."

The remnant or gleanings-of a Nation, as applied to the Tyrians by ISAIAH must be apparent to the reader :-its application to the present Work (together with other portions of the Prophecy), will be proved, as we advance, from the records of Classic and acknowledged History.

CHAPTER VI.

(609-606 B. C.)

KING ITHOBALUS THE FIRST.

[i. e. ETH-BAAL.]

THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA BY THE TYRIANS, SCIENTIFICALLY INVESTIGATED AND ESTABLISHED, &c.

SECTION I.

THE CAUSE OF THE EGYPTO-TYRIAN

EXPEDITION-HERODOTUS

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REVIEWED-THE COURSE OF THE EAST-WIND," &c.

THE subject now to be considered is of peculiar interest in reference to the history of early Science ; and more so from the fact, that doubts have been entertained by some Historians as to whether this celebrated Voyage was accomplished, or even attempted. These doubts have arisen from the silence of some of the early Roman writers upon the subject, and subsequent authors have, thereupon rejected the supposed expedition. It will be our object in this Chapter, to

firmly establish that the Voyage did take place, and to

set the question at rest. on the authority of the but upon the higher authority of Scripture,-from the words of the Prophets JEREMIAH and EZEKIEL,-which will now be brought forward (as we humbly submit). for the first time to bear upon the question.

This will be done not only Greek historian, Herodotus,

The establishing of this proposition in the affirmative, and beyond further dispute, has a material effect towards supporting the Theory of this entire work, so far as relates to the Aborigines of Mexican America being of Tyrian descent ;-therefore, the interesting subject calls for minute investigation in order to sustain the proposition. It must also be of interest to the general reader, merely as an elucidation of early Science, and especially the analysis of the celebrated East-Wind," so often mentioned in the Bible.

The suggestion by some writers that the circumnavigation of Africa took place in the time of Hiram and Solomon [1000 B. c.] cannot be supported by any proofs, or even probabilities, but, on the contrary, is refuted from two causes; viz., 1st, From the motive why the Egyptian, Pharaoh-Necho, undertook, or rather resolved upon the expedition,-which establishes it to have been the first voyage; and 2dly, The natural incident or fact, observed during the voyage (of this hereafter), and which appeared so surprising not only to the Tyrians and Egyptians, but even to Herodotus himself,—proves that the expedition did not take place before the time of Ithobalus, for the same "incident" would have been

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