The chiefest Cities are _Ptolemais_, otherwise call’d _Acon_, _Sidon_, _Arad_, _Great Cana_, _Sarepta_, _Biblis_, _Bothris_, _Berithus_, and their Princess _Tyre_, formerly scituate in an Isle, but since joyn’d to the Main-Land by _Alexander the Great_. [Sidenote: _Herodot._ lib. 1 .] [Sidenote: _Salust_ in _Igurtha_.] [Sidenote: Wonderful Power of the _Phenicians_.] None can disown, but that the _Phenicians_ have every where been Admirals of the Sea; so that they were formidable to the greatest Princes. When the _Persian_ King _Cambyses_ came with a vast Army against the _Carthaginians_, he was forc’d to give over his Design, because the _Phenicians_ refus’d to help him with their Fleet, being allied to, and the City founded by them: But they not only built _Carthage_, which strove with _Rome_ to be the Empress of the World, but also the famous Cities _Leptis_, _Utica_, _Hippo_, and _Adrumetum_ in _Africa_, with _Cadiz_ and _Tartessus_ in _Spain_; nay, they sent Plantations of People into the Heart of _Iberia_ and _Lybia_. It will not be amiss to add _Q. Curtius_ his Relation, who tells us, “Where-ever the _Phenicians_ came with their Fleets, Landing their Men, they subdu’d whole Countreys, and by that means spread their Colonies over the known World; _Carthage_ in _Africa_, _Thebes_ in _Boetia_, and _Cadiz_ near the _Western Ocean_.” _Aristotle_ relates, “That they made such rich Returns of their Merchandize, and chiefly of their Oyl, in _Spain_, that their Anchors, Pins, and all Iron Materials belonging to a Ship, in stead of that Metal, were Silver.” [Sidenote: Testimonies that the _Americans_ are deriv’d from the _Phenicians_.] [Sidenote: First Testimony.] [Sidenote: Is contradicted.] [Sidenote: _Lib. 3. Geogr._] [Sidenote: _Flemmish Islands._] [Sidenote: _Lib. 17._]