NO. 2 BIBLIOGRAniY OP TIN — HESS 305 



HISTORY (Continued) 



1393. Greathead, SAiri'EL. On the knowledge and commerce of tin among 



ancient nations. 



Trans. Roy. Geol. Soc. Cornwall, Vol. 2, 1S22, Penzance, pp. 3.50-3('i.5. 

 Article tracing the use of tin among the ancient nations, and also drawing con- 

 clusions as to wlicre it was mined. 



1394. Hanks, Henry G. Tin. 



Ann. Rpp. California State Min. ISSO (ISSl), Sacramento, pp. 31-32. 

 Short history of the discovery cf the tin deposits of the world. Tin is mrntioned as 

 occurring in " veins of rich tin ore " in San Bernardino County, California. 



1395. Hawkins, C. Observations on the tin trade of the ancients, in Cornwall 



and on the " Ictis " of Diodorus Siculus. 



1811, London. 

 Historically interesting. 



1396. Hawkins, John. On the state of our tin mines at different periods, 



until the commencement of the 18th century. 



Trans. Roy Geol. Soc. Cornwall, Vol. 4, 1838, Penzance, pp. TO-9-t. 

 A historical recount of the tin mines of England beginning with the period of the 

 Romans. 



1397. Hunt, Robt. Tin mining in Cornwall and its traditions. 



Good Words, 1867, L<:)ndon, pp. 126-131. 



Historical, treating of the traditions and early history of Cornish tin mining. 



Hunt, Robert. See Nos. 412 and 413. 



1398. James, Henry. Note on the block of tin dredged up in Falmouth 



harbor. 



45th Ann. Rep. Roy. Inst. Cornwall, 1863, Truro, pp. 29-33, plf?. 4. 



Considering the peculiar form of this block of tin, its weight and the place where 

 it was dredged up, it appears to throw light upon the still vexed question of the 

 locality of the Ictis of Diodorous. Quotations from passages of Diodorous, relative to 

 tin trade of Britain. 



1399. . On ancient Phoenician tin trade. 



Mg. Journ. Railw. Comm. Gaz., Vol. 34, 1864, London, p. 65. 

 Abstract of address delivered at Southampton Polytechnic Institution. 



1400. Kendrick, John. Phoenicia. 



1855, London, pp. 212-223. 



Treats of the early Phoenician tin trade with Britain and speculates as to the 

 Cassiteridcs. . 



1401. Lewis, George Cornewall. An historical survey of the astronomy of 



the ancients. 



1S62, London, pp. 450-457. 



Quotes many of the ancient writers on Phoenician trade, and comes to the conclusion 

 that tin was supplied in early times to nations in the east of the Mediterranean by 

 the overland route across Gaul, and that the Phcenician ships got it at the mouth of 

 the Rhone, without sailing as f.ir as Britain. Some tin may have been obtained from 

 Gades. 



1402. Lewis, George Randall. The Stannaries: A study of the English tin 



miner. 



mOS, Boston, pp. 209, Bilil. 



" The author aims to give, on the basis of the availalile printed and manuscript 

 sources, an account of English tin mining and miners from the twelfth to the 

 eighteenth centuries." 



