[Greek:
Ermaeuen panton, kerdempore, lusimerimue,
O? cheiresthiu echei? oplun aremphe?]
NOTE U.
'Dispense the mineral treasure'.—L. 121.
The merchants of Sidon and Tyre made frequent voyages to the coast of
Cornwall, from whence they carried home great quantities of tin.
NOTE V.
'Hath he not won'?—L. 136.
Mercury, the patron of commerce, being so greatly dependent on the good offices of the Naiads, in return obtains for them the friendship of Minerva, the goddess of war: for military power, at least the naval part of it, hath constantly followed the establishment of trade; which exemplifies the preceding observation, that 'from bounty issueth power.'
NOTE W.
'C'alpe … Cantabrian surge'—L. 143.
Gibraltar and the Bay of Biscay.