Chronological Table, ACCORDING TO THE DATES OF THIS HISTORY, FROM THE CREATION TO THE BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY. THE ASSISTANT OF EDUCATION. JULY, 1824. A SKETCH OF GENERAL HISTORY. TO THE JEWISH CAPTIVITY, 588 B.C. WE have traced up to the year B.C. 588, the period of the Jewish Captivity, the history of the three great kingdoms then subsisting on the earth-those of Israel, Egypt, and Assyria: it now remains only to take such notice as we can find of other and lesser nations subsisting at that period; ere we go forward in the history of the world. Among these we find the Phoenicians, a people as ancient as those of which we have spoken, and contemporary with them in power and civilization: this is therefore the time to mention them. Phoenicia, or more properly Phoenice, was a very narrow slip of land of small extent, on the coast of the Mediterranean, immediately to the north of Palestine, bounded on the north and east by Syria. The inhabitants were Canaanites: and it is sometimes included in the appellation of Canaan. In this little nook of earth were many kingdoms-there were kings of Tyre, and kings of Sidon, and kings of Biblus, Aradus, and Berytus-but as these mighty monrchs had but one city each and some few roods of earth around them, we do not think it worth while to name even such of them as are upon record. Yet is Phoenice by no means wanting in greatness or |