<l$% Dr. Wall on the VJe of Symbols * 
The analogy being extended thus far, without 
any great violence, the remaining fymbol of 
Jupiter was applied to Tin , for which, the bright 
i'plendour of the planet and of the metal, might 
feem to give a plaufible reafon. * 
This metal was not found in any of the coun- 
tries of the ancient world, which were com¬ 
monly known, and eafy of accefs. It was im¬ 
ported by the Phoenicians from fome of thofe 
regions, with which they traded in their voyages 
beyond the Pillars of Plercules ; particularly, it 
was faid to be brought from fome iflands, which 
were called Caffiterides . Whether the metal re¬ 
ceived the appellation of Cajfileron , (or CaJfiteros t 
as Homer calls it) from thefe iflands, or they 
were fo called from the metal, is uncertain j nor 
is it lefs uncertain, what thefe iflands were, and 
where they were fituated. Some place them on 
the weftern coafts of Spain, Portugal, or Africa : 
others fuppofe them to have been, the Scilly 
iflands near the Land’s end, in Cornwall.t It is 
not, 
* It may be remarked, that Homer gives to Tin the fame 
epithet (pxtiy 05, which he frequently ufes, to exprefs the 
bright fplendour of the moon, and planets. Iliad 4/361. 
f In Wells's edition of Dionyjius ’ Geography, it is pofi- 
tively alferted, that the Caffiterides were fituated near the 
Land’s end in Cornwall, and that they had their name 
from the Greek word Kxcrmlsfoy, tin, which they pro¬ 
duced in great plenty. (Dionyf.i Geograph, par Wells.) 
Borlafe 
