 One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, girt about the breast and walking with staves, thus resembling the Furies we see in tragic representations.  Ethnology of the British Islands - Page 42by Robert Gordon Latham - 1852 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Allen Giles - Great Britain - 1847 - 440 pages
...after Herodotus. That geographer gives us the following narrative b. " The Cassiterides [tin islands] are ten in number, and lie near each other in the...north from the haven of the Artabri. One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, and... | |
 | Frederick Guest Tomlins - 1850 - 90 pages
...after Christ, about the year 50, thus refers : — Thi Tin Islands. " The Cassiteridcs [tin islands] are ten in number, and lie near each other in the ocean, towards the north from the haven of the Avtabri. One of them in desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1859 - 668 pages
...Britons agrees substantially with that given by Himilco three centuries earlier. Strabo writes : ' The Cassiterides are ten in number, ' and lie near...in the ocean towards the north ' from the haven of Artabri. One of them is a desert, ' but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, ' chid in... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1860 - 596 pages
...Britons agrees substantially with that given by Himileo three centuries earlier. Strabo writes : ' The Cassiterides are ten in number, and lie near each...other in the ocean towards the north from the haven of Artabri. One of them is a desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunies,... | |
 | George Smith - Cassiterite mines and mining - 1863 - 172 pages
...Celtica, to Marseilles, and the city called Narbo." * Strabo, about AD 18, wrote on this subject : — " The Cassiterides are ten in number, and lie near each other in the ocean toward the north from the haven of the Artabri. One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited... | |
 | Richard Atkinson Peacock - 1868 - 314 pages
...ocean nearest to Iberia [Spain], which, from the tin, are named Cassiterides." * Strabo says :— " The Cassiterides are ten in number, and lie near each...ocean towards the north from the haven of the Artabri [who lived in the north-west of Spain]. One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men... | |
 | William Smith - Classical geography - 1872 - 1134 pages
...true tin country was Cornwall, rather than the Scilly Isles ; thf Cissiterides, " ten in number, lying near each other in the ocean, towards the north from the haven of the Arabri" (Strab. iii. p. 239), are the Scilly Isles rather than Cornwall. Again, " one of them is a... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Scotland - 1876 - 556 pages
...islands Cassiterides ; and that from the Bretannic Isles it is carried to Massalia ; and he adds, ' The Cassiterides are ten in number, and lie near each...north from the haven of the Artabri : one of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in 2 Diod. Sic., lib. ii. cc. 21,... | |
 | Britannia, Thomas S Cayzer - Latin language - 1878 - 248 pages
...topsy-turvy, raise tempests, and infest the air with pestilential vapours. From STRABO. Geographien, Book III. The Cassiterides are ten in number, and lie near each...north from the haven of the Artabri ; one of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, and... | |
 | Philip William Flower - Tin - 1880 - 278 pages
...finally " came, saw, conquered," and took possession of this island and the mines for themselves : — " The Cassiterides are ten in number, and lie near each...the ocean towards the north from the haven of the Artabi. One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics... | |
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