[542] Pliny, "Hist. Nat." s. 1; 19, 22. Cf. Movers, loc. cit. 2, 2, 537 ff.
[543] Strabo, p. 48; cf. p. 150.
[544] The German tin-mines were not opened till the middle ages; those of farther India in the last century; Müllenhoff, "Deutsche Altertumskunde," s. 24.
[545] Herod. 3, 115; Pliny, "Hist. Nat." 7, 57.
[546] At a later time we meet with the name Prettanian islands. Ynis Prydein, i. e. island of Prydein, was the name given by the Welsh to their land; Müllenhoff, loc. cit. s. 88 ff, 93 ff.
[547] Helbig, "Commercio dell ambra," p. 10, n. 4. On the amber in the tombs east of the Apennines, pp. 15, 16.
[548] Müllenhoff, loc. cit. s. 223.
[549] Strabo, p. 168.
[550] Joel iii. 4 ff. On the date of Joel, supra, p. 260, n. 2. De Wette-Schrader, "Einleitung," s. 454. According to the data established above, the minority of Joash falls between 837 and 825 B.C.
[551] The older Zechariah ix. 3, and De Wette-Schrader, "Einleitung," s. 480.