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Show 46 The earliest people most probably landed here from the neighboring coast of either Italy the island can be Spain; or from the seen Iberian race originally they very likely crossed Gibraltar, ana Italian coast. from came over likely the former, very Africa, somewhere as 13ut.- if this clear days ancient have' intimated above, we the near on as present straits of thus' passed through Spain, the ancient Iberia, from which the race recei ved doubt. We its name. How the Iberia name a'matter of is arose get it trom the Greeks, who, by it, designated some of the some country along the East Shore of Spain and South Shore of France, approx imately from the mouth of the Rhone to some of the Ebre- to be been int Iberia. e rpr e't ed This last from the Basque "country of the river". and is simply conjecture, probability. The Romans from the Basque land) the or to mean the (one Was aetis, might though of the on an river the branches haa formerly and must we Hispania, which K. W. Von "the border" admit us that the it has called tin and say about place. degree of some to Strabo in his and the states time), He also flows says was city of the through which to the that the sea; river neighboring country Tartessus. that Tarshish supplie-d Tyre wi th , lead, which agrees with What the classical writers city of the for all imports and exports a localitbeing position it has about 1500 B. seems, - since for that part of the Peninsul.a. settled by the Phoenicians it "Latin-Gades,- Greek Gadeira", Cadiz ., or the Tartessus, which name According disappeared). (XXVII-12) silver, iron, the main town (of This, of course, island formed by two branches was . Was by inference the be translated border land. called Tartessus The prophet Ezekiel the river" which has name country about the mouth of the GUadalquiver and is situated (as it indigenous "Efpania" meaning identical wi th the Biblical Tarshish. was "the call The Phoenicians have left understood to be the Tartessus an s Humboldt deri vee ocean seems distance south of the mouth It c. the main entry-port continued to hold ever is said to have been It was probably in |
