The comparison of the remnant of a nation, to the few remaining grapes upon the vine, or in the baskets, after a general gathering of the harvest, is used also by JEREMIAH in prophesying the destruction of Judæa,--the word "remnant" is distinctly used. "Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my Soul depart from thee: lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. Thus saith the LORD of hosts,--They shall throughly _glean the_ REMNANT of Israel _as a vine_: turn back thine hand as a _grape-gatherer_ into the baskets." [Jeremiah vi. 8, 9.] The same simile is found in the Apocrypha. [2 Esdras xvi. 29--31.] The preceding figure of speech used by the Prophets ISAIAH and JEREMIAH was evidently taken by them from the words of the first Lawgiver, spoken over seven centuries before, in reference to the stranger's, the widow's, and the orphan's right to the _remnants_ of the field, and of the fruit trees. This law is practised and permitted even to this day, by that class of harvest-followers, called _gleaners_,--the modern Ruths,--from the original of whom sprang the all-charity SAVIOUR! MOSES commanded that-- "When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it:--it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow,--that the LORD thy GOD may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. When thou beatest thine _olive-tree_, thou shalt not go over the boughs again,--it [the remnant] shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. _When thou gatherest the grapes_ of thy vineyard, thou shalt not _glean_ it afterwards,--it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow." The _remnant_--or _gleanings_--of a Nation, as applied to the Tyrians by ISAIAH must be apparent to the reader:--its application to the present Work (together with other portions of the Prophecy), will be proved, as we advance, from the records of Classic and acknowledged History. CHAPTER VI. (609--606 B. C.) KING ITHOBALUS THE FIRST. [_i. e._ ETH-BAAL.] THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA BY THE TYRIANS, SCIENTIFICALLY INVESTIGATED AND ESTABLISHED, &c. SECTION I. THE CAUSE OF THE EGYPTO-TYRIAN EXPEDITION--HERODOTUS REVIEWED--THE COURSE OF THE "EAST-WIND," &c.