Notes of a sermon preached by the Rev. C. E. Derwent in Union Church, Sunday evening, February Text.-Psalm XLVIII. 7.
"With an osset wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshiah."* Where was Tarshish? Numbers been suggested, Rome, but that is not remote enough. Carthage herself: but that is unlikely. The discovery "f ancient settlements in Mashonaland in South Africa with emelting apparatus has made some think 't was a port on the African coast south of Zanzibar, from which the gold smelted at these settlements called Zinibabwe was shipped to Phoaniae That may have been is best to cling to the old solution of the difficulty, that Tarshish was Tartessus in the south of Spain. It may have been that the Phoenician ships picked up metals there on their way back from their expedition to Cornwall to fetch tin, That may account for
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