Villalpando did certainly not arrive hastily at his conclusion; but it was after mature consideration that he decided that there existed colonies of Hebrews all over the world, in the reigns of David and Solomon, and that the Hebrews thus scattered remitted large sums of money for the erection and support of the temple.¹ ¹ See Appendix D. The short time allotted for a lecture of this kind, prevents me from dwelling much longer now on this subject. To do justice to this investigation would require a whole series of lectures, exclusively, on it.¹ I proceed, therefore, at once to trace the probable footsteps of the Israelites into Britain. ¹ See Appendix E. Taking for granted that it is highly probable that the Jews visited Spain in the days of David and Solomon, in company with the Phœnician merchants; may we not extend the probability also to Britain? Appian tells us, that the Spaniards of his time used to perform the passage to Britain in half a day.¹ Britain was a place of attraction to mercantile persons at a very early period, and London was styled by the ancients, at a remote date, “_nobile emporium_.” There remaineth now no doubt whatever respecting the early intercourse between the Phœnicians and the Britons――all historians are unanimous upon it. ¹ “Quando in Britanniam, una cum æstu maris transvehuntur quæ quidem trajectio dimidiati diei est.” Sir Isaac Newton tells us, “With these Phœnicians came a sort of men skilled in religious mysteries.” Might they not have been Jews? True it is that we cannot appeal to monuments in order to establish our position; but we can, at the same time, appeal to the languages of the Hebrews and ancient Britons, which furnish a strong argument that they have known something of each other. I begin with the _name_ your country bears, viz. Britain. Various are the conjectures which antiquarians and philologists advanced in order to account why this island is so called. Herodotus calls the British Isles _Cassiterides_, which signifies, the islands of tin. It is a name whereby the Phœnicians jealously contrived to conceal from their Mediterranean neighbours the locality of these islands, being the remote sources of their wealth. Now, Strabo calls Britain Βρετανικη. Bochart, a profound Oriental scholar, shows that Βρετανικη is a corruption of the Hebrew words ברת אנך _Barat-Anach_, which are in signification the same with Cassiterides.¹ Is it not highly probable that Jews came over to this island with the Phœnicians, and named it according to its peculiar quality; which designation was ultimately adopted by the aborigines when they began to have intercourse with the Jews. ¹ See Appendix F.