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PHCNICIAN TIN-PORT IN CORNWALL — 165

Cormwall that Brutus banished his big “ brother’ Sylvius Alba, or his agents, across the Sea of Icht—that is, back in the direction of his own kingdom on the Tiber.

Fic. 25.—Pheenician Tin Port in Cornwall, Ictis or St. Michzel’s Mount in Bay of Penzance.

(After Borlase 395.)

This prior occupation of Cornwall by kinsmen of Brutus would now seem to explain why Brutus landed at Totnes instead of Cornwall, which was already in the possession of his rival exploiters. It also explains why Duke Corineus, the commander of the four Phcenician clans at Gades, who were mainly dependent on the tin-mining industry in Cornwall, from which they were presumably ousted or forestalled by their rival kinsmen from the Tiber, so readily joined Brutus in his expedition to annex Alban, and doubtless so on the express stipulation that he would receive Cornwall with its monopoly of the tin trade. It also would explain why Brutus handed over the duchy of Cornwall to Corineus to conquer without going there himself, whilst he personally moved on to the Thames Valley and settled there.

The date for this invasion of Alban by Brutus and his associated Phoenicians is fixed directly by totalling up the

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