308 ON THE ICTIS OF DIODORUS SICULUS. 
tinguish one of these from the rest, under the 
name of Cassiteris; for he says, in the latter 
place, ‘ Midacritus was the first, who carried 
away lead from the island Cassiteris.’* | Now it 
seems not improbable, that this supposed island, 
to which Pliny applies the name Cassvteris, was 
the western part of Cornwall. At a cursory 
glance, therefore, it might be thought, that the 
island Cassiteris is no other than the Ictis of 
Diodorus; but Pliny represents Timeus, the 
historian, as speaking of the island Mictis, (an 
evident mistake of some copyist for Jctis ;) so 
that Pliny probably made a distinction between 
Cassiteris and Ictis. His words are “ INSULAM 
mictTiM,’} which might easily have arisen, by an 
error of transcription, from ‘‘ INSULAM ICTIM.” 
Wesseling accordingly regards the “ Mictis” of 
Pliny as the “ Ictis’’ of Diodorus under another 
form ;{ and Borlase, in his observations on the 
Scilly Islands, says, ‘this 1ctis of Diodorus 
* Plumbum ex Cassiteride insula primus apportavit Mida- 
critus. Lib. vii. cap. 57. 
{ Timzus historicus a Britannia introrsus sex dierum 
navigatione abesse dicit insulam Mictim, in qua candidum 
plumbum proveniat. Lib. iv. cap. 16. vol. I. p. 233. Ed. 
Hardouin. Paris, 1723. 
t Refingens Ictim. Diod. Sic. Bibl. Hist. Lib. v. cap. 22. 
vol. I. p. 347. Not. in 1. 60. 
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