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162 PH@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

Table), who was slain by Agamemnon. The Table also shows the inter-relationship by marriage between Antenor-theTrojan and King Priam and /Eneas, the great grandfather of Brutus. Their ancestor Aisuetao of the “ ancient barrow ”’ (or funeral mound) at Troy: was presumably a descendant of Dardanus, the founder of the royal dynasty of Troy,? and thus kinsman of 7Zneas and Brutus.

The place of landing of Brutus in Alban is stated.to have been Totnes, in the sound of the Dart in Devon; and it is in keeping with the fateful fitness of things that the first harbour selected by the great admiral Brutus and his early Pheenician Britons for their first British fleet in Alban’s waters should have latterly been the favourite resort of the British “‘ sea-dog ’ Sir Walter Raleigh, and be the location of the “‘ Britannia ”’ training ship for our navy of the modern empire of Britain. There still exists at Totnes, on the foreshore street, the traditional stone called ‘“‘ Brutus Stone ”’ (which I have seen) with the local tradition that upon it Brutus first set foot when landing in Alban.

This tradition of his landing at Totnes and not in Cornwall seems confirmed by the record in Nennius’ version of the Old Chronicles, which states that there were already some relatives of Brutus in possession of Alban, and presumably at the tin-mines in Cornwall, before the arrival of Brutus. He states :—

“ Brutus subdivided the island of Britain whose [previous] inhabitants were the descendants of the Romans [properly Trojans from Alba on the Tiber] from Silwius Posthumus. He was called ‘ Posthumus ’ because he was born after the death of

‘Eneas, his father: his mother was Lavinia. . . . He was called ‘ Silvius’ . . . from whom the kings of Aiba were called ‘ Silvan.’ He was [half-| brothey to Brutus . . . but

Posthumus, his brother, reigned among the Latins.’’* And he had, according to Geoftrey,* a son called Sylvius Adda,

This tradition of the prior rule in Alban, presumably by deputy, of the Alban Silvius, the “ half-brother,” or rather half-uncle, of Brutus,is also preserved in the early Scottish

1 [liad 2, 793.

* Details in Ayvvan Origin of Phenicians.

*N.A.B. sects. Io and 11. 4G.C. chap. 8.