not sayle to _Carthage_, but to the _East-Indies_. The answer of _Isaac Abarbanel_ to that argument, cannot be admitted, who saith, that an arme of _Nilus_ did run into the red Sea, and another arme ran into the Mediterranean, by _Alexandria_ in _Ægypt_; since it was never heard, that ships of great burden, did swim in those rivers; and would not he then have built his Navie in the Port of _Alexandria_? It is more true that _Tarsis_ is the Ocean, or _Indian_ Sea; and because they came into the Ocean, after that they had sayled over the red Sea, which is but narrow, therefore the Scripture saith, _They Sayled_ to Tarsis. _Rabbi Jonathan ben Uziel_ followes this opinion, who in his Paraphrase, for _Tarsis_, puts (the Sea.) The same saith _Franciscus de Ribera_, in his Comment. on _Jonah_, and also _Rabbinus Josephus Coen_, in his _Chronology_; who ascribe the word _Tarsis_, to the _Indian_ Sea; because that _Ophir_ is the same Country, which of old is called, _The Golden Chersonesus_; and by _Josephus_, _The Golden Land_; and at this day _Malacca_; from whence they brought Ivory, for the great number of Elephants which are there; none of which are in the _West-Indies_, and _Solomons_ Navie stayed in those Ports of _India_ three yeares, because they traded with the Inhabitants! I know that learned _Grotius_, and famous _de Laet_ thinke differently; as also those quoted by them; but I shall not insist in confuting their opinions because I study brevity. I doe like of, in part, the opinion of the _Spaniards_ who dwell in the _Indies_, who by common consent doe affirme that the _Indians_ come of the ten Tribes. And truly they are not altogether mistaken, because in my opinion, _they were the first planters of the Indies_; as also other people of the _East-Indies_ came by that Streight which is between _India_, and the Kingdome of _Anian_. But that people, according to our _Montezinus_, made warre upon those Inhabitants the _Israelites_, whom they forced up unto the mountaines, and the in-land Countries, as formerly the _Brittaines_ were driven by the _Saxons_ into _Wales_. _SECT. 3._