ON THE ICTIS OF DIODORUS SICULUS. 311 
that it was the district between the Land’s End 
and the Hayle Sands. 
Among the elements essential to a deter- 
mination of the point in question, must be 
reckoned the fact of Ictis, and the neighbouring 
islands, being situated near this promontory. If 
we could determine, with absolute certainty, to 
what promontory Diodorus alluded, under the 
name B:‘ao, the chief preliminary difficulty in the 
present inquiry would be overcome. But this 
still remains a matter of doubt, some thinking that 
it is the Land’s End, others Cape Cornwall, and 
others Tol Pedn Penwith. Nor will this differ- 
ence of opinion be deemed surprising, when 
it is considered, that Cornwall was originally 
called Kernaw, probably from the Pheenician, }>p 
(Keren, ) or the ancient British Kern, signifying 
a horn, on account of its numerous promontories. 
Ptolemy writes the name of this headland, Boaéeo». 
But he also calls it *Avrsovfre1o.* Now the proper 
names of places, compounded with the preposition 
wl, are generally derived from the names of 
other places, to which they stand opposite: thus, 
Antilibanus is the mountain opposite to Libanus ; 
* Ptolem. Geogr., Opera P. Bertii; Lib. ii. cap 3. p. 35. 
. ; : 
Qu. “Avtiovéconsoy. 2 
