er and a calendar sign, are
linked to a division of the state, I hope yet to be able to clearly
demonstrate the practical harmonious working of a machinery of
state, established on a perfected numerical scheme, the cursive
notation of which was extremely simple.

Meanwhile I offer the foregoing remarks as suggestions for future
research and as an expression of my opinion that people, using
geometrical and numerical cursive methods of notation in their own
country, may have systematically employed the pictographic method in
teaching their language to strangers and in establishing their
civilization in foreign lands.

158 It is particularly interesting to learn from Professor Sayce (_op.
cit._ p. 188), not only that Phoenician culture had been introduced
among the rude tribes of Israel, but that the temple of Jerusalem
was built by Phoenician artists after the model of a Phoenician one,
the main features of which were the two columns or cones at the
entrance and the brazen sea or basin, which rested on _twelve_
bulls, this number agreeing with the number of Israelitic tribes and
with tribal or caste divisions in other ancient centres of
civilization. It is thus certainly suggestive to find the number
twelve associated with the Phoenicians, to whom the spread of
civilization in the Old World is attributed and whose predecessors,
at the period of Babylonian culture, were, according to Professor
Sayce, "solitary traders, who trafficked in slaves, in purple-fish
... and whose voyages were intermittent and private."

... "Diodorus Siculus assigns to the Carthaginians the knowledge of
an island in the ocean, the secret of which they reserved for
themselves as a refuge to which they could withdraw should fate ever
compel them to desert their African home. It is far from improbable
that we may identify this obscure island with one of the Azores,
which lies 800 miles from the coast of Portugal. Neither Greek nor
Roman writers make any reference to them, but the discovery of
numerous Carthaginian coins at Carvo, the northwesterly island of
the group, leaves little room to doubt that they were visited by
Punic voyagers."--Sir Daniel Wilson. The lost Atlantis and other
ethnographic studies. New York, 1892.

159 Address of the