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160 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

or Tyrians. This Phcenician settlement at ‘‘ Gad-es,”’ or “The House of the Gads or Phoenicians,” was presumably founded mainly as a “ half-way house ’’ to the tin-mines of Cornwall and its off-lying isles of the Cassiterides, now submerged by the sinking of the land. Herodotus records that the chief source of the supply of tin, which was essential for the manufacture of bronze, for the ancient world came from the Cornwall Cassiterides. He says:

‘The Cassiterides from which our tin comes. . . . It is nevertheless certain that both our tin and our amber are brought from these extremely remote regions (the Cassiterides and North Sea) . . . in the western extremities of Europe.’

This tin-trade and its distribution were entirely in the hands of the Phoenicians.:. And it now seems that the “ Tin-land beyond the Upper Sea’ (or Mediterranean) of the Amorites subject to Sargon I. about 2800 B.c., was the Cassiterides of Cornwall, see App. VI.

The “ Trojan” traders whom Brutus found settled at Gades were under the leadership of Duke Corinews, bearing this significantly Greco-Phcenician name,* and a former associate-in-arms of Brutus. The four clans of these Trojans of Gades are stated in our text to have been the descendants of “banished Trojans who had accompanied Anfenor.”’ This Trojan hero, it will be remembered, is described by Homer as a leading prince of Troy, who rode in the same chariot with King Priam as ambassador at the parley with the Achaian Greek invaders.*_ He was spared by the latter in their massacre of the Trojans on account of his honourable conduct in indignantly rejecting the proposal of a party of Trojans to murder the Achaian ambassadors, Ulysses and Menelaus, and was thus allowed, with the remnants of his family, to escape along with 42neas and his son Ascanius He sailed to Italy with attendants called Veneti, like ‘2neas, but chose Illyria at the head of the Adriatic, and there founded Padua* adjoining “ Venice,’ which latter name seems to preserve his ethnic title of ‘‘Phcenice”’ or

1 Herodotus, 3, 115. ='S. 3, 5, Il.

* A Greco-Phcenician tombstone at Carthage is erected to ‘' Karneios.’See P. Delattre, La Nécropole Punique (excav ations of 1895-6), Paris, 1897, 143.

4 Jliad, 3, 263 and 213. * Virgil, 4Aneid, 255-292