Tarshish  seated  himself  on  the  eastern  part  of  this  tract,  as
is  probable,  on  several  considerations.  For  Tarsus  is  a  chief
town  of  Cilicia,  and  Josephus  expressly  affirms  that  Cilicia,  and
the  country  round  it,  was  originally  known  by  the  name  of  Tarsh-
ish. It  is  scarcely  to  be  doubted,  but  this  was  the  Tarshish,  to
which  the  prophet  Jonas  thought  to  flee  from  the  presence  of  the
Lord,  as  also  that  this  principally  w  as  the  Tarshish  mentioned  so
often  by  the  |)rophets,  on  account  of  its  trading  with  Tyre.
To  the  west  of  Tarshish,  adjoining  the  portion  appertaining
to  Kitliin,  or  Cillim,  which  word  having  a  plural  termination,
does,  in  all  probability,  imply  the  descendants  of  Ktlh,  or  the
Ktlians.  Ptolomy  tells  us  of  a  country  here  called  Cetis,  and
Homer  in  Odys.  4,  mentions  a  people  called  Cetii,  who  were
thought  to  take  their  name  from  a  river,  Cciius,  in  the  same  quar-
ter. But  it  is  remarkable  that  this  is  agreeable  to  the  name
mentioned  by  Homer.  Josephus  will  have  the  isle  of  Cyprus  to
have  been  the  seat  of  the  Q/iltim,  because  therein  was  a  town  called
Citium,  of  good  note,  but  it  is  not  to  be  questioned,  but  the  con-
tinent was  peopled  before  the  island,  and  consequently  that  the
Cittim  first  sealed  themselves  on  the  continent,  from  which  they
might,  probably  enough,  send  in  process  of  time,  some  colony
over  into  the  neighbouring  island  of  Cyprus.
