Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 434
t-fitting trou-sers that reached to the calf of the leg. Thesewere copied from the trousers worn by thesailors of the ships lying in the Tiber, shipsthat had come from Phenicia, at that time thegreat merchant nation of the Orient. In their commercial dealings these Pheniciantraders were carrying… … 991 islands in the Atlantic Ocean — a group ofislands that afterward became known as theBritish Isles. It was for the tin with which thisbarbarous land seemed to abound that thePhenicians risked the long, dangerous voyageinto unknown seas, carrying with them, for ex-change with the native…
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