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of its locality than did the name Cassiterides, ‘Tin Islands,” 
used by Herodotus B.c. 445. And Bre-tin-ik is almost 
literatiém not only the name (Brettanike) by which Diodorus 
calls Britain, but also the original Phoenician or Hebrew 
word (Baratanac, “ the land of tin”) from which, accord- 
ing to the learned Bochart, our island was called. 
To Cornishmen, the last survivors in England of the 
ancient Britons, this subject must be particularly interest- 
ing, especially when we regard Tyre, in its most flourishing 
condition, as typical of England at the present time,— 
“‘ very glorious in the midst of the seas ;” “‘ whose merchants 
are princes ;” and who hath been for ages, and still is “ the 
covering cherub” (Ezek. xxviii. 14, 16), beneath whose 
wings fugitives from their own lands, for offences not 
deemed by us ‘“ worthy of death or of bonds,” have always 
found a secure asylum. 
P.S.—Since writing the above I have seen the pamphlet 
just published of Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E., director 
of the Ordnance Survey, entitled ‘‘ Note on the Block of 
Tin dredged up in Falmouth harbour.” This block, pre- 
sented forty years ago to the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 
weighs about 130 lbs., and appears to be of the very form 
(aoreuyarwy guduods) into which Diodorus says the tin was 
cast before it was carried in carts to Iktin. ‘It is 2 feet 
11 inches long, 11 inches wide, and 3 inches thick at the 
centre, perfectly flat on one side, but curved on the other, 
and having four prolongations at the corners, each one foot 
long ;’ thus resembling in its outline a London butcher- 
boy’s tray, and well adapted for being carried by hand by 
two men ; for being firmly placed on the curved bottom of 
a boat for exportation, and for being afterwards strapped, 
two of them together, to a pack-saddle with their flat sides 
against the sides of the horse. A plan of it is given 
below. The boat containing this block is supposed by Sir 
Henry to have been lost on its voyage from St Michael’s 
Mount to France, at the entrance of Falmouth harbour, 
where it was dredged up. This publication will be printed 
in the next Report of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 
together with a letter to Sir Henry, dated 16th June 1862, 
