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target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_12dca56b-b7e0-5919-8ced-d64e5a060e59">984 [ Strab. xi. 14, § 9:—’Εστιν ιπποποτος σφόδρα η χώρα.]
985 [ Ibid.]
986 [ 1 Kings i. 33; Esth. viii. 10, 14.]
987 [ Ezek. xxvii. 13.]
988 [ Xen. Anab. iv. 1, § 6.]
989 [ Hom. Od. xv. 415-484; Herod. i. 1.]
990 [ Joel iii. 6.]
991 [ Ezek. xxvii. 13.]
992 [ Herod. v. 5.]
993 [ Herod. ii. 32.]
994 [ Ibid. iv. 183.]
995 [ Ibid.]
996 [ Ibid. iv. 181-184. Compare Heeren, African Nations, ii. pp. 202-235.]
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.]
998 [ Especially Etruria, which was advanced in civilisation and the arts, while Rome was barely emerging from barbarism.]
999 [ 2 Chron. ii. 14.]
9100 [ Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, ii. 204, 514; Gerhard, Etruskische Spiegel, passim.]
9101 [ Schliemann, Mycenæ, Pls. 357-519.]
9102 [ Ezek. xxvii. 12; Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 16; &c.]
9103 [ Strabo, iii. 5, § 11.]
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 Rhône (Diod. Sic. v. 22).]
9105 [ Heeren, Asiatic Nations, ii. 80.]
9106 [ Hom. Od. xv. 460. Some doubt, however, if amber is here intended.]
9107 [ Scylax, Periplus, § 112.]
9108 [ Herod. iv. 196.]
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.]
9110 [ Pliny, H. N. vi. 32, sub fin.]
9111 [ Pliny, l.s.c. The breed is now extinct.]
9112 [ The savagery of the ancient inhabitants of the mainland is strongly marked in the narrative of Hanno (Periplus, passim).]
9113 [ As Heeren (As. Nat. ii. 71, 75, 239).]
9114 [ Ezek. xxvii. 15, 20, 23.]
9115 [ See 1 Kings x. 22; 2 Chr. ix. 21.]
9116 [ 1 Kings ix. 26, 27.]
9117 [ Ibid. x. 11; 2 Chr. ix. 10.]
9118 [ Gen. x. 29. Compare Twistleton, in Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, vol. ii. ad voc. OPHIR.]
9119 [ Ps. lxxii. 15; Ezek. xxvii. 22; Strab. xvi. 4, § 18; Diod. Sic. ii. 50.]