ON 
etl Cad LS 
OF 
DLODORUS:SLECULUS: 
BY THE REY. R. WALLACE, F.G.S. 
(Read January 23rd, 1844.) 
In the “Bibliotheca Historica” of Diodorus 
Siculus,* who flourished towards the middle of 
the first century, occurs the following passage, 
relating to the locality in which the tin trade was 
carried on, between the natives of Cornwall and 
those who visited the British coast, for the pur- 
poses of traffic. 
‘Concerning their institutions, and other pe- 
culiarities, we will treat separately, when we come 
* Lib. V. Cap. xxii. (Ed. Wesseling, 1746. Vol. I. p.347.) 
