the son of _Europa_, flourished
in the Reign of _Solomon_, and part of the Reign of _Rehoboam_: and the
children of _Minos_, namely _Androgeus_ his eldest son, _Deucalion_ his
youngest son and one of the _Argonauts_, _Ariadne_ the mistress of
_Theseus_ and _Bacchus_, and _Phaedra_ the wife of _Theseus_; flourished in
the latter end of _Solomon_, and in the Reigns of _Rehoboam_, _Abijah_ and
_Asa_: and _Idomeneus_, the grandson of _Minos_, was at the war of _Troy_:
and _Hiram_ succeeded his father _Abibalus_, in the three and twentieth
year of _David_: and _Abibalus_ might found the Kingdom of _Tyre_ about
sixteen or eighteen years before, when _Zidon_ was taken by the
_Philistims_; and the _Zidonians_ fled from thence, under the conduct of
_Cadmus_ and other commanders, to seek new seats. Thus by the Annals of
_Tyre_, and the ancient _Phoenician_ Historians who followed them,
_Abibalus_, _Alymnus_, _Cadmus_, and _Europa_ fled from _Zidon_ about the
sixteenth year of _David_'s Reign: and the _Argonautic_ Expedition being
later by about three Generations, will be about three hundred years later
than where the _Greeks_ have placed it.

After Navigation in long ships with sails, and one order of oars, had been
propagated from _Egypt_ to _Phoenicia_ and _Greece_, and thereby the
_Zidonians_ had extended their trade to _Greece_, and carried it on about
an hundred and fifty years; and then the _Tyrians_ being driven from the
_Red Sea_ by the _Edomites_, had begun a new trade on the _Mediterranean_
with _Spain_, _Afric_, _Britain_, and other remote nations; they carried it
on about an hundred and sixty years; and then the _Corinthians_ began to
improve Navigation, by building bigger ships with three orders of oars,
called _Triremes_. For [118] _Thucydides_ tells us that the _Corinthians_
were the first of the _Greeks_ who built such ships, and that a
ship-carpenter of _Corinth_ went thence to _Samos_, about 300 years before
the end of the _Peloponnesian_ war, and built also four ships for the
_Samians_; and that 260 years before the end of that war, that is, about
the 29th Olympiad, there was a fight at sea between the _Corinthians_ and
the _Corcyreans_ which was the oldest sea-fight mentioned in history.
_Thucydides_ tells us further, that the first colony which the _Greeks_
sent into _Sicily_, came from _Chalcis_ in _Euboea_, under the conduct of
_Thucles_, and built _Naxus_; and the next year _Archias_ came from
_Corinth_ wit