[Footnote 977:  Ezek. xxvii. 23, 24.]

[Footnote 978:  Herod. i. 1.]

[Footnote 979:  See Di Cesnola, Cyprus, pls. xxxi.-xxxiii.; A. Di Cesnola, Salaminia, ch. xii.; Perrot et Chipiez, Hist. de l’Art, iii. 636-639.]

[Footnote 980:  Layard, Monuments of Nineveh, 2nd series, pls. 57-67; Nineveh and Babylon, pp. 183-187.]

[Footnote 981:  Ezek. xxvii. 23.]

[Footnote 982:  So Heeren translates (As.  Nat. ii. 123).]

[Footnote 983:  Ezek. xxvii. 14.]

[Footnote 984:  Strab. xi. 14, Sec. 9:—­{’Estin ippobotos sphodra e khora}.]

[Footnote 985:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 986:  1 Kings i. 33; Esth. viii. 10, 14.]

[Footnote 987:  Ezek. xxvii. 13.]

[Footnote 988:  Xen. Anab. iv. 1, Sec. 6.]

[Footnote 989:  Hom. Od. xv. 415-484; Herod. i. 1.]

[Footnote 990:  Joel iii. 6.]

[Footnote 991:  Ezek. xxvii. 13.]

[Footnote 992:  Herod. v. 5.]

[Footnote 993:  Herod. ii. 32.]

[Footnote 994:  Ibid. iv. 183.]

[Footnote 995:  Ibid.]

[Footnote 996:  Ibid. iv. 181-184.  Compare Heeren, African Nations, ii. pp. 202-235.]

[Footnote 997:  No doubt some of these may have been imparted by the Cyprians themselves, and others introduced by the Egyptians when they held Cyprus; but they are too numerous to be accounted for sufficiently unless by a continuous Phoenician importation.]

[Footnote 998:  Especially Etruria, which was advanced in civilisation and the arts, while Rome was barely emerging from barbarism.]

[Footnote 999:  2 Chron. ii. 14.]

[Footnote 9100:  Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, ii. 204, 514; Gerhard, Etruskische Spiegel, passim.]

[Footnote 9101:  Schliemann, Mycenae, Pls. 357-519.]

[Footnote 9102:  Ezek. xxvii. 12; Plin. H.  N. xxxiv. 16; &c.]

[Footnote 9103:  Strabo, iii. 5, Sec. 11.]

[Footnote 9104:  Ibid.  In Roman times the pigs of tin were brought to the Isle of Wight by the natives, thence transported across the Channel, and conveyed through Gaul to the mouth of the Rhone (Diod.  Sic. v. 22).]

[Footnote 9105:  Heeren, Asiatic Nations, ii. 80.]

[Footnote 9106:  Hom. Od. xv. 460.  Some doubt, however, if amber is here intended.]

[Footnote 9107:  Scylax, Periplus, Sec. 112.]

[Footnote 9108:  Herod. iv. 196.]

[Footnote 9109:  These forests (spoken of by Diodorus, v. 19) have now to a great extent been cleared away, though some patches still remain, especially in the more western islands of the group.  The most remarkable of the trees is the Pinus canariensis.]

[Footnote 9110:  Pliny, H.  N. vi. 32, sub fin.]

[Footnote 9111:  Pliny, l.s.c.  The breed is now extinct.]