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little pier, then at the Mount, wbicb was almost in tbe very line 
of tbe tben existing natural causeway, sbould be extended in that 
straight line as far as Marazion, and thus form a large and com- 
modious harbour for ships. This eastern arm (vvhich now forms 
tbe oldest part of the pi'esent eastern arm) tbe bishop probably 
wished to be regarded by the public as the commencement of his 
proposed " stone causeway." 
The Rev. Dr. John Rannister, in the Journal of the Royal 
Institution of Cornwall, for October, 1867 (p. 3-24), states that 
he is " convinced that the Phoenicians traded here for tin, and 
that St. Michael's Mount . . is the Iktisof Diodorus Siculus." 
Dr. Rannister's paper is a reply to an article in Macmillan's 
JMagazine for April, 1867, by Professor Max Miiller, who imagined 
that the only evidence the Cornish possess of their mines having 
been ever worked, or the tin-trade having been ever carried on by 
Jews, is that old smelting houses are still called Jews' houses, in 
Cornwall, and that tbe nearest town to St. Michael's Mount is to 
this day called " Market-Jew," as well as Marazion. 
I will not follow the Professor in the process by which he shows 
that the name Jews' houses has no connection with Jews, Rut I 
may perhaps be able to satisfy him still more clearly than he has 
satisfied himself that the name Market-Jew originally had not 
the least reference to a Jews' Market. In doing so, I must first 
show the origin of the older name of the town, for which purpose 
T will adopt Dr. Rannister's method of accounting for names of 
many ancient places, as given by him in his paper on Nomen- 
clature, in the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, for 
October, 1866 (p. 112). 
Marazion was for centuries, before it was superseded by Pen- 
zance, the only general market-place for the Land's-end district. 
It had three statute markets, and was also, according to Diodorus, 
the market at which the Mediterranean merchants purchased their 
tin. Now the Cornish word for " market " is marchaz, or (by con- 
