466 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. xm. 



civilisation extended as far dowii into the Valley of the 

 Danube as the district of Salzburg. They probably 

 worked the salt-mines of the whole of that region. 

 They are said also to have been masters of Corsica, and 

 to have founded Tarraco near Tarragona in Spain. 



The Etruskans were famous not only for their bronze 

 work, but also for their amber, and the chief port in 

 which the amber trade was carried on with the ancient 

 Greeks was the city of Hatria, on the north of the 

 mouth of the Po (Eridanus), which gives its name to 

 the Hadriatic, from the waters of which it is now sepa- 

 rated by a barrier of silt upwards of fourteen miles in 

 width. The routes by which the amber was conveyed 

 to it from the shores of the Baltic have been satisfac- 

 torily ascertained by the finds of amber, as well as by 

 the discovery of articles of Etruskan workmanship in 

 various parts of Germany. 1 



The Etruskan Trade-Routes to the Amber Coasts. 



The two most important, as well as the oldest, trade- 

 routes leading to the amber coasts are those starting 

 from Hatria, and leading through the Alpine passes into 

 the Valley of the Danube. The first, I. of map (Fig. 168,1.), 

 took the line of the Valley of the Adige past Verona, 

 Roveredo, and Trient, over the Brenner Pass into the 

 Valley of the Inn, and crossed the Danube either at 

 Linz or Passau. Thence it passed over the Bohemian 



1 The principal authorities consulted in dealing with the trade-routes 

 of the Etruskans and Greeks are Wiberg, Der Einfluss der klassischen 

 Volker auf den Nor den durch den Handelsverlcehr, 8vo, Hamburg, 1867 ; 

 Pierson, 'Elektron, Berlin, 8vo, 1869 ; Genthe, Uber den Etruskisclien 

 Tauschhandel nach dem Norden, 8vo, Frankfurt, 1878 ; Von Sadowski, 

 Die Handelsstrassen der Griechen und Romer, 8vo, Jena, 1877. 



