It is, therefore, evident that Tyrus was a "strong city" anterior to 1444 B.C., which was the time of JOSHUA, and the conquest of the "land of promise;"--we have, therefore, and in reference to an event previous to Joshua, placed the foundation of Tyrus as early as 1600 years B.C. Some authors have remarked that HOMER has not mentioned Tyrus, and as a consequence, that that City was not in existence at the period of the Siege of Troy. Homer mentions both Mother and "Daughter" under one name; viz., Sidonians: it was a term applied by the ancients to both Nations, and to every thing elegant in Art,--until the Tyrians by their superior skill won their own, and a distinctive appellation. Nor can Homer be charged with ignorance in joining the two names;--he followed what appears from his own language to have been a received custom. This is also proved by Solomon's message to a subsequent King of _Tyrus_,--and the Tyrians in their early days were flattered by being called Sidonians. "For thou knowest that there is not among us [_i. e._ Israel] any that can skill to hew timber like unto the _Sidonians_." [1 Kings v. 6.] Then to assert that Tyrus did not exist at, or before the Fall of Troy, because the Epic Poet does not mention it,--or that it is not to be found recorded as a city, is to proclaim that which is not sanctioned by the consentient voice of acknowledged history. We will briefly review this point. The Trojan war, consequent upon the rape of the Spartan Queen, commenced in the year 1194 B.C. Now in the previous page it is proved, that Tyrus was a "strong City" 250 years before the Siege of Troy, for Joshua speaks of it as one of the boundaries for the Tribe of Asher, and this event was 1444 B.C., and that upon the authority of Holy-Writ. Again.--Had such sceptics in the antiquity of Tyrus, given a moment's consideration to the Grecian Fleet, employed to convey Agamemnon and his troops to Troy, they would have found that the Knowledge of Navigation was first introduced at Sidon, and was, as a practical science,--established by the Tyrians,--and from them the Greeks derived their nautical skill and knowledge. Homer intended both Nations in the one term,--Sidonians:--but, Euripides is more defined, for his subject demanded it;--and as it has reference to this History, as being the first recorded event after the founding of Tyrus, it will be mentioned more in detail. 1493 B.C.] Forty-nine years before the period in which Joshua divided the lands of Canaan, a Tyrian Chief (_i. e._ a Cadmus) left Tyrus and Sidon (apparently with a colony) and founded Thebes in Greece. He is known in classic history as Cadmus, and has the reputation of introducing into his new territory of Thebes, the ciphers of his country, and from which were formed the letters of the ancient Grecian alphabet,--the language in which Homer subsequently depicted the deeds of Greeks and Trojans.