On the Phcenician Tin Trade in Cornwall, by R. Edmonds. '28 
rived from the other through the tin traders, who must have been 
well acquainted with both places. Moreover, the carriage by land 
from the north of France to the Mediterranean, as the reviewer 
reads Diodorus, would, in those rude ages, have been not only 
more expensive, but more unsafe than by the route I have men- 
tioned. 
After having written my reply to the article in the Saturday 
Review, I saw the pamphlet of Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E., 
on the block of tin dredged up 40 or 50 years since at the entrance 
of Falmouth Harbour, which I have seen at the museum of the 
Royal Institution of Cornwall. It weighs about 130 lbs., and may 
be of the very form referred to by Diodorus, into which the tin was 
cast before it was carried to Iktin. " It is 2 feet 11 inches long, 
1 1 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 a 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 expor- 
tation, — 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 sup- 
posed by Sir Henry to have been lost on its way from the Mount 
to France, at the entrance of Falmouth Harbour, where it was 
dredged up. 
Two reasons present themselves for choosing the Mount as a 
depot for the purified tin; — the one, for safe custody until the ships 
