te Themis, kai agastonos Amphitrite.]

[Greek: Ichnaia] is here used adjectively. [Greek: Ichnaia Themis]
signifies Themis, or Thamuz, of [169]Canaan.

There was another circumstance, which probably assisted to carry on the
mistake: a Canaanitish temple was called both Ca-Cnas, and Cu-Cnas; and
adjectively[170] Cu-Cnaios; which terms there is reason to think were
rendered [Greek: Kuknos], and [Greek: Kukneios]. Besides all this, the swan
was undoubtedly the insigne of Canaan, as the eagle and vulture were of
Egypt, and the dove of Babylonia. It was certainly the hieroglyphic of the
country. These were the causes which contributed to the framing many idle
legends, such as the poets improved upon greatly. Hence it is observable,
that wherever we may imagine any colonies from Canaan to have settled and
to have founded temples, there is some story about swans: and the Greeks,
in alluding to their hymns, instead of [Greek: Ykknaon asma,] the music of
Canaan, have introduced [Greek: kukneion asma,] the singing of these birds:
and, instead of the death of Thamuz, lamented by the Cucnaans, or priests,
they have made the swans sing their own dirge, and foretell their own
funeral. Wherever the Canaanites came, they introduced their national
worship; part of which, as I have shewn, consisted in chanting hymns to the
honour of their country God. He was the same as Apollo of Greece: on which
account, Lucian, in compliance with the current notion, says, that the
Cycni were formerly the assessors and ministers of that Deity. By this we
are to understand, that people of this denomination were in antient times
his priests. One part of the world, where this notion about swans
prevailed, was in Liguria, upon the banks of the Eridanus. Here Phaethon
was supposed to have met with his downfal; and here his brother Cycnus
underwent the metamorphosis, of which we have spoken. In these parts some
Amonians settled very early; among whom it appears that there were many
from Canaan. They may be traced by the mighty works which they carried on;
for they drained the river towards its mouth, and formed some vast canals,
called Fossae Philistinae. Pliny, speaking of the entrance into the Eridanus,
says, [171]Inde ostia plana, Carbonaria, ac fossiones Philistinae, quod alii
Tartarum vocant: omnia ex Philistinae fossae abundatione nascentia. These
canals were, undoubtedly the work of the Canaanites, and particularly of
some of the Caphtorim, who came fr