[2385] Geogr., iv, 5, § 1.
[2386] I cannot see how Mr. Reginald Smith (Guide to the Ant. of the Early Iron Age [Brit. Museum], p. 85) reconciles his theory, that the route in ‘the opening years of the first century B.C.’ passed through Kent with his previous assertion (p. 84) that ‘about 90 B.C.’ it left the British coast at the Isle of Wight.
[2387] As Professor Ridgeway assumes that Posidonius was the authority whom Diodorus followed both in v, 22 and in v, 38, he would be compelled to maintain that in the passage which served as the basis of the former chapter Posidonius was describing only the route which the tin trade followed in the time of Pytheas, in the other that which it followed in his own time. How can the professor prove this?
[2388] Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xviii, 1900, p. 119.
[2389] Celtic Britain, 1904, pp. 47-50.
[2390] Folk-Lore, i, 1890, pp. 83-4.
[2391] Archaeol. Journal, xlix, 1892, p. 178.
[2392] Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xviii, 1900, pp. 119-20.
[2393] Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xviii, 1900, p. 122.
[2394] Numerous Roman inscribed objects of lead have been discovered in Spain (Corpus Inscr. Lat., ii, 4964, and Suppl., 6243, 6247-8); but so far as I can ascertain, none of tin.