[2298] Ora maritima, 90-8.— Et prominentis his iugi surgit caput, (Oestrymnin istud dixit aevum antiquius,) Molesque celsa saxei fastigii Tota in tepentem maxime vergit Notum. Sub huius autem prominentis vertice Sinus dehiscit incolis Oestrymnicus, In quo insulae sese exserunt Oestrymnides, Laxe iacentes, et metallo divites Stanni atque plumbi.
[2299] See K. Müllenhoff, Deutsche Altertumskunde, i, 1890, p. 91.
[2300] Ora maritima, 108-9.
[2301] Ib., 110-6.— Haec inter undas multa caespitum iacet, Eamque late gens Hibernorum colit. Propinqua rursus insula Albionum patet. Tartesiisque in terminos Oestrymnidum Negotiandi mos erat: Carthaginis Etiam coloni, et vulgus, inter Herculis Agitans columnas, haec adibant aequora, &c.
[2302] Rhein. Mus., 1, 1895, p. 335.
[2303] Eng. Hist. Rev., xix, 1904, pp. 139-40, n. 5.
[2304] Ora maritima, 94.
[2305] Hist. of Anc. Geogr., p. 37.
[2306] Similarly Appian (De rebus Hisp., 1) says that the voyage from Spain to the British Isles occupied half a day!
[2307] This page was written before I had read the relevant passage in Kiepert’s Formae orbis antiqui, quoted on p. 493, infra. Dr. H. Berger maintains (Gesch. der wissenschaftlichen Erdkunde der Griechen, iv, 1893, pp. 24-5) that Strabo’s error was due to a misunderstanding of statements about islands situated on the route which the ships engaged in the tin trade followed; but I cannot conceive how such a misunderstanding could have been suggested by the narrative of Crassus.