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 34 HISTORY OK ART IN PIUKNICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. the ship of Tarshish, the PluL-nician Indiaman or clipper, has been preserved. The profits of the trade with Spain were so large and so nimble that the whole eastern coast of the peninsula was soon studded FIG. 8. Phoenician merchant galley. From Layard. with Phoenician settlements. The chief of these were Malaca (Malaga], Sex (Motril), Abdera (Almcria), and Cartei'a (Al- %eciras) ; others of less importance might be named, or, at least, ^yiJffiij^i^ JlO I-IG. 9. Phoenician war galley. From Layard. their situation guessed. The valleys of the interior and the fertile plains of the province we now call Andalusia supplied merchandise of various kinds to the Tyrian venturers, but the chief staple of the