34 On the Phoenician Tin Trade in Cornwall, by R. Edmonds. 
the rest of the inhabitants, after having adopted the English 
language, have always called it Market- Jew. 
It thus clearly appears that the name Market- Jew has no more 
to do with the Jews than the name Penny-come qmck (well known 
in Plymouth, and a mere corruption of the Cornish Pen-y-cum- 
gwic, " Head of the creek valley") has to do with the idle stoiies 
connected with it. But there is better evidence than that "derived 
from names of places and other relics of language " to shew the 
connection of the Jews with the tin trade and with the. working of 
tin mines in Cornwall. This evidence has been adduced by Dr. 
Bannister in his reply to the Professor, who appears therefore to 
have been premature in concluding that he had made the Jews 
vanish from Cornwall (p. 491). It seems moreover not at all 
improbable, as Scawen supposed, that "Jews as well as Plioe- 
nicians were very ancient traders in Phoenician ships," after 
they had taken possession of Canaan; and that if the Phoenicians 
had settlements in Cornwall for carrying on the tin trade, the 
Jews would also have had residents there for that purjwse, and 
would not have abandoned such a lucrative commerce until their 
banishment from our island five or six centuries ago. 
It being now established that the Phoenicians came to Mounts- 
bay for tin both before and after the time of Moses, — that the 
Mount is the Iktin of Diodorus, — and that Jews were anciently 
connected with the tin trade and with the working of tin mines in 
Cornwall, — let us, in conclusion, consider the derivation of the 
name Iktin, and of the name of the island in which we live. 
Ik is the Cornish for " port." Tin is the metal so called (as 
is supposed) by the Phoenicians, and the name continues 
unchanged in the Saxon, English, Dutch, Danish and Icelandic 
languages; but the Swedish name is now tinn; the German, 
zinn ; the French, etain and tain ; the Latin, stanmim ; the 
Italian, stagiw ; the Spanish, estano ; the Portuguese, estanho ; 
