Speaking of princely Tyre, Ezekiel says, "Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs".[112] Tarshish is usually considered to have been the western coast of the Mediterranean afterwards called Gaul, in later times Spain and France, and undoubtedly the men of Tarshish, Tyre, Troy, or Etruria, toured, trekked, travelled, tramped, traded, and trafficked far and wide. Etrurian vases have been disinterred in Tartary and also, it is said, from tumuli in Norway, yet as Mrs. Hamilton Gray observes: "We believe that they were never made in those countries, and that the Tartars and Norwegians never worshipped, and possibly never even knew the names of the gods and heroes thereon represented".[113] These vases more often than not depicted incidents of Trojan legend, and of that famous Troy whose exploits in the words of Virgil "fired the world". The Tyrians conceived their chief god Hercules or Harokel as a bagman or merchant, and in Phoenician the word _harokel_ meant merchant. Our own term _merchant_[114] is etymologically akin to Mercury, the god of merchants, and as _mere_ among other meanings meant pure or true, it is not unlikely that _merchant_ was once the intellectual equivalent to Tarchon or True John. In the West of England the adjective "jonnock" still means true, straightforward, generous, unselfish, and companionable.[115] The adjective _chein_ still used by Jews means very much the same as _jonnock_, with, however, the additional sense of the French _chic_. Jack is the diminutive endearing form of John, and the Etruscan Joun is said to have been the Hebrew _Jack_ or _Iou_.[116] Joun or his consort Jana was in all probability the divinity of the Etruscan river Chiana, and Giant or Giantess Albion the divinity of the neighbouring river Albinia. Close to Market Jew or Marazion is a village called Chyandour, where is a well named Gulfwell, meaning, we are told, the "Hebrew brook". It is still a matter of dispute whether the Jews shipped their tin from _Market_ Jew or overland from Thanet (_? Margate_[117]). From the word _tariff_, a Spanish and Arabian term connected with Tarifa, the southernmost town in Spain, it would seem that the dour and daring traders who carried on their traffic with Market Jew and Margate toured with a _tarifa_ or price-list. Doubtless the tariff charges were commensurate with the risks involved, for only too frequently, as is stated in the Psalms, "the ships of Tarshish were broken with an east wind". To _try_ a boat means to-day to bring her head to the gale, and in Somersetshire small ships are still entitled _trows_, a word evidently akin to _trough_. [Illustration: FIG. 13]