Editing Tarshish (section)

===Britain===
Some 19th-century commentators believed that Tarshish was [[United Kingdom|Britain]], including [[Alfred John Dunkin]] who said "Tarshish demonstrated to be Britain" (1844), [[George Smith (historian)|George Smith]] (1850),<ref>{{cite book |author=Smith, George |title=Sacred Annals; Or, Researches into the History and Religion of Mankin[d] |url=https://archive.org/details/sacredannalsorr01smitgoog |year=1856 |page=557 |publisher=Carlton & Porter |quote=Heeren fully confirms this view ; shows from Strabo, that the Phenicians not only traded with Spain and Britain, but actually conducted mining operations in the former country; and is so fully satisfied of the identity of Tarshish and Spain&nbsp;...}}</ref> James Wallis and David King's ''The British Millennial Harbinger'' (1861), John Algernon Clarke (1862), and Jonathan Perkins Weethee of Ohio (1887).<ref>{{cite book |first=Jonathan Perkins |last=Weethee |title=The Eastern Question in Its Various Phases |year=1887 |page=293 |quote=The expression is this: "''the merchants of Tarshish, with the young lions of Tarshish''". Assuming, what we have proved, that England was the ancient Tarshish, and that Great Britain is the Tarshish of Eze.&nbsp;xxxviii.&nbsp;13, or the chief of both&nbsp;...}}</ref> This idea stems from the fact that Tarshish is recorded to have been a trader in tin, silver, gold, and lead,<ref>Ezek 27:12</ref> all of which were mined in [[Cornwall]]. This is still reputed to be the "Merchants of Tarshish" today by some{{clarify|date=April 2023}} Christian sects.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}