312 ON THE ICTIS OF DIODORUS SICULUS. 
and Antiparos an island opposite to Paros. It 
is reasonable to presume, therefore, that ’Avsovéorasoy 
was the name of some promontory, or headland, 
on the British coast, looking towards some other 
promontory, or headland, on the opposite coast 
of Gaul, bearing the same, or a similar name, 
but without the preposition. Ifthen we take away 
the #7}, we have Ovéoraio, (Ouessant, or Ushant,) 
the furthest headland of France to the west, distant 
about twelve miles from the continent, and on the 
south side of the English Channel, immediately 
opposite to the Land’s End, which was probably 
the Batu of Diodorus. Volaterranus says, that 
this promontory was once called Helenum,* but 
this is evidently nothing more than a various 
reading of Belerium ; B having been converted 
into H, and RI into N, thus; | 
BELERIUM, 
HELENUM. 
Near this promontory, then, was the island of 
Ictis, to which, at low water, the natives conveyed 
the tin in wagons, for the purpose of selling it 
to the foreign merchants. But all which now 
remains, to mark the locality, is a small archipe- 
* Gibson’s Ed. of Camden’s Britannia; vol. I. p. 148. 
Lond. 1772. 
