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Text Appearing Before Image: VIEW OF THE DEAD SEA. fathers of foreign commerce. So dis-tinctly were the latter characteristicsimpressed upon the Phoenicians as toset them apart in their evolution fromthe other Canaanites, and to make themindeed a separate study in history.This distinction between them and theircountrymen was carried forward to theage of the Hebrew ascendency. Theconquest of Canaan by the Israelites didnot include Phoenicia; and in later agesboth the Babylonians and the Egyptians Syria, eastward of the Jordan, retained alarger measure of the old Mesopotamianlife than did they who settled in CanaanProper. We have already shown inanother part Avhat were the native jjrod-ucts and resources of these countries.The agricultural life was taken up withfacility and success by the immigranttribes, and the country was soon madenot only habitable but productive. Seen through the prejudice of Jewishnarrative, the reader is apt to gather a Text Appearing After Image: THE CANAANITES.—ANCIENT TRIBES. 331 Ings unfavor-able to Canaan-Itish character, poor opinion of those peoples who werevirtually exterminated by Joshua and hisHebrew writ- successors. But a morecareful consideration ofthe subject will give us abetter notion of the condition and char-acter of the unfortunate peoples whofell before the Hebrew invasion. Oftheir prosperity and manner of life wemay form some idea from the occasional conquest, was, without doubt, one of themost inviting morsels that ever temptedthe cupidity of men. No Ancient Paies-doubt the Israelites, after ^^seuTiS^long sufYering in half- vaders.desert countries, came to the feast withsharpened appetites; but the repast wasabundant. Palestine was a land offruits and flowers, of flocks and herdsand vineyards, of orchards and barley
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