[225] Gen. x. ver. 15.
[226] Gen. xlix. ver. 13.
[227] Drummond’s Origines, vol. iii. p. 97. Homer makes the Phœnician woman speak, of whom mention is made in the Odyssey b. xv.—“I glory to be of Sidon abounding in brass, and am the daughter of the wealthy Arybas.”
[228] Zidon-rabbah: ch. xi. v. 8.
[229] “Neither did Ashur drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon.”—Judges i. 31.
[230] “Now, therefore, command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and unto thee I will give hire for thy servants, according to all that they shall appoint; for thou knowest that there is not amongst us any that has skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.”—1 Kings, ch. x. v. 6.
[231] Dictys Cretensis acquaints us that Paris returned not directly to Troy after the rape of Helen, but fetched a compass, probably to avoid pursuit. He touched at Sidon, where he surprised the king of Phœnicia by night, and carried off many of his treasures and captives, among which probably were these Sidonian women.—Pope.
[232] “The common voyce and fame runneth, that there arrived certain merchants, in a ship laden with nitre, in the mouth of the river; and beeing landed, minded to seath their victuals upon the shore, and the very sands: but that they wanted other stones, to serve as trivets, to beare up their pans and cauldrons over the fire, they made shift with certaine pieces of sal-nitre out of the ship, to support the said pans, and so made fire underneath; which being once afire among the sand and gravell of the shore, they might perceive a certaine cleare liquor run from under the fire, in very streams, and hereupon they say came the first invention of making glass.”—Philemon Howard, Pliny, xxxvi. c. 26.
[233] Book viii. ch. 8.
[234] Chap. xxviii. ver. 20, 21, &c.