 | Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 692 sider
...metal is mixed with some veins of earth, out of which they melt the metal, and then refine it ; tten they beat it into four-square pieces like to a dye,...Scythia above Gaul, in the ocean, lies an island called Basik.u, upon which there is cast, by the working of the sea, abundance of amber, not to ba found in... | |
 | 1855 - 790 sider
...like so many peninsulas. Hence the merchants transport the tin they buy of the inhabitants to Gaul, and for thirty days' journey they carry it in packs upon horses through Gaul to the mouth of the river Rhone." Referring afterwards to the trade with Narbonne, established... | |
 | 1862 - 500 sider
...being dry between them and the island, they convey over in carts abundance of tin in the meantime ; hence the merchants transport the tin they buy of the inhabitants to France." Bolerium is evidently Cape Cornwall, or the Lands End. It is so marked in the map of Ptolemy, and other... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1866 - 538 sider
...between them and the island, they then convey over in carts abundance of tin. But there is one thing more peculiar to these islands, which lie between Britain...horses' backs, through France to the mouth of the Rhone." city of Narbo, which city is a Roman colony, and the greatest mart-town for wealth and trade... | |
 | Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society - 1901 - 444 sider
...being dry between them and the island, they convey over in " carts abundance of tin in the meantime. Hence the merchants transport the tin '' they buy...through France, to the mouth of the river Rhone." It is true that this description of the tin industry of Cornwall does not apply to iron, but we know... | |
 | John William Taylor - 1906 - 460 sider
...ike so many peninsulas. Hence the merchants transport the tin they buy of the inhabitants to Gaul, and for thirty days' journey they carry it in packs upon horses' backs through Gaul to the mouth of the river Rhone." And again, " This tin metal is transported out of Britain into... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1906 - 410 sider
...tide, the land being dry between them and the island, they convey over in carts abundance of tin ; hence the merchants transport the tin they buy of the inhabitants to Gaul, the opposite Continent, and then, by a thirty days' journey on horses' backs, to the mouth of... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 sider
...being dry between them and the island, they convey over in carts abundance of tin in the meantime. But there is one thing peculiar to these islands which...backs through France to the mouth of the river Rhone. ... In their journeys and fights they use chariots drawn by two horses, which carry a charioteer and... | |
 | 156 sider
...being dry between them and the island, they convey over in carts abundance of tin in the meantime. But there is one thing peculiar to these islands which...backs through France to the mouth of the river Rhone. ... In their journeys and fights they use chariots drawn by two horses, which carry a charioteer and... | |
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But there is one thing peculiar to these islands which lie between Britain and Europe, for at full sea they appear to be islands, but at low water for a long way they look like so many peninsulas. Hence the merchants transport the tin they buy of the... 