The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

AMORITE PHGNICIANS IN CORNWALL 415

was a chief port of the Amorite Phoenicians, and which we know was actually visited and conquered by Sargon I., is thus celebrated in the Old Testament in connection with Tyre of the Phoenicians: ‘‘ Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, TIN, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.’

It would thus appear that the Tin which was imported into ancient Palestine, and which entered into the bronze that decorated Solomon’s temple, and formed sacred vessels in that sanctuary, was presumably obtained in most part, if not altogether, from the Phcenician Tin-mines of Ancient Britain.

1 Ezek. 27, 12.