The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus: Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. ThomasJones, George
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The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus: Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. Thomas
Jones, George
America -- Antiquities; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Phoenician; Indians -- Origin
4th. _The collective means for the Migration._ Under this head may be
included the "appliances" of both Art and Nature. Their Galleys were
of sufficient strength and capacity,--their provisions ample,--derived
from Carthage, the Sidonians, and the fruitful Isle of Teneriffe:
their skill and courage as Pilots, Mariners, and Rowers
unequalled,--the season of the year propitious, and a constantly
favourable wind and flowing sea (although to them unknown as such) of
sufficient power to drive them quickly westward, and compel them to
reach the "afar off" land "to sojourn."
5th. _The probable time and duration of the Voyage._ The remnant of
the Tyrian Nation, through the instrumentality of the Sons of Sidon,
escaped from their naming Capital, August 20th [332 B. C.], and in
allowing for time in reaching the Fortunate Isles, and preparing for
their departure thence, it will, we think, be acceded that by October
of the same year, and the equinoctial gales of the autumn having then
passed, opened to them "fair weather ahead,"--they were then prepared
to seek another home, however distant. The strong Galleys, with sails
and oars, and always before the constant East-Wind and onward
wave-current, would accomplish ten miles an hour by day, and during
the night, without the Rowers, six miles an hour, and equally dividing
the twenty-four hours, would make a run of 192 miles per day. Nautical
proofs will shew that in the above calculation the power of the
Trade-Winds [_i. e._ the East-Winds] are _underrated_. The distance
from Teneriffe to Florida is about 3300 miles, which by the foregone
data they would traverse in seventeen and a quarter days. The Voyage
may therefore with safety be said to have been accomplished during an
entire month, and that, consequently the first landing of a branch of
the human family in Ancient America would be in the last month of
Autumn, three hundred and thirty-two years before the Christian Æra.
And 6th. _The Fugitive Founders of_ (what we think may now be justly
termed) _Tyrian-America_, _i. e._ the Southern moiety of the
Continent.
The Female portion of the Fugitives were in all probability (from the
peculiar character of the rescue) the Wives, Sisters, and Daughters,
of the Tyrian Husbands, Brothers, and Fathers, who escaped with
them,--thus forming a "colony,"--and if there were among them any
Strangers or Orphans from the general carnage, protection would
naturally be given, as to companions and children of misery and
misfortune.
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