iAl*. XVUI.J
*1 the adjoinir
aiutained.
1st T.1
have given an activity that is still
iow be considered under the follow- Various
branches o f
commerce t
be consider«
the Phoenicians and Carthaginians,
through Arabia and Asia.
;,.w and to India and China.
Arabs.
The position of Egypt was equally favourable for trade bv Kwh
laud through Arabia, and for that commerce which is said to Ï5È5
have' been opened at a remote period by water with the western
«oast of India. f*«4 vf were, as has been supposed,
achieved by ifa i f •if Sesostris or Psapainetiehus,
1 it would appear t&tti ■ ■-
i Ü « * if ftli
neighbours in Palestine and Arabia.
The circumstances attending the sale of Joseph, and theorsv
journeys of Abraham, show that the peninsula of Arabia was aSS1
traversed at both these periods for commercial purposes, the
products of Asia, gad Arabia on one side, being exchanged for
hose of Africa on tb
®n verged upon niidd
feria by way of jfe
•I has been seen tfrv
■MfB. the shores of the
commerce "was nol
; ’«?« in the oppostt# <1
■¿■•■d: time, the washer
' ire, the great « îh
..«.ehandise ; tfe jM
r. I he caravan routes of Africa
pt, and from thence proceeded inti
i .iC-" Ramleh, and Tyre,'
¡W$i* 'was first peopled by Cushites
¡rian Sea or Persian Oulf,1 and thsM
extended westward, but into « v-
in by land, thus connecting.; for tht
Western regions o f the hid ssoild
of trade, did not, bsnS#*’**-, '«x»nr*
ti£S Ot JOffSUiiK il'IIIl'Mciiifi! '-vhin.). ftf*
,)d. Siij'., lib. I,.
, above, pp. b.i.
1. I., p. 281, at