Note 49 — THULE (ETYMOLOGY OF).

Bochart (in Chanaan, i. 40), quoting Diogenes and Dercyllides of Tyre, whose tables, according to Photius (loc. cit.), were dug up by order of Alexander the Great, explains Thule to mean in Phœnician “tenebrarum insula.” But this etymology reminds us of the Semitic origin applied to Britain.