On the Phcenician Tin Trade in Cornwall, by R. Edmonds. 37 
cative of its locality as the Phoenicians could have ^Yished, who, 
as is well known, sought to conceal the place whence they 
procured their tin. For the name Bretin, BpcTravLKr), or 
Britannic Islands, signifies no more than did the name Cassi- 
terides, " Tin Islands," which Herodotus uses in ignorance of 
their situation. 
" Si quid novisti rectius istis 
Gandidus imperti : si non, his utere mecum." 
