[118] Mansfield Parkyns, Life in Abyssinia, Vol. I. p. 405 (London, 1853).
[119] For similar ways of trading in Africa in modern times see Rawlinson’s note ad locum.
[120] Herod. IV. 49.
[121] Strabo, 173. 34-49, Didot.
[122] Ibid. 178 Didot.
[123] Th. Mommsen (Nordetruskische Alfabete, p. 250, seqq.) gives an admirable summary of the metallurgical history of this region.
[124] Strabo, 218.
[125] Pliny, XXXIII. 4. § 78, extat lex censoria Victumularum aurifodinae, qua in Vercellenai agro cavebatur, ne plus quinque M hominum in opere publicani haberent.
[126] Strabo, 205.
[127] Th. Mommsen, Die nordetruskischen Alfabete, p. 223; Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen, p. 6.