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" They subsist by their cattle, leading for the most part a wandering life. Of the metals they have tin and lead, which with skins they barter with the merchants for earthenware, salt, and brazen vessels. "
Revolutions in English History - Page 7
by Robert Vaughan - 1859 - 1964 pages
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History of the Ancient Britons: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 1

John Allen Giles - 1847 - 440 pages
...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 girt about the...earthenware and salt and brazen vessels. Formerly the Phoenicians alone carried on this traffic from Gadeira [Cadiz], concealing the passage from every one:...
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Tomlin's Help to self-educators

Frederick Guest Tomlins - 1850 - 90 pages
...haven of the Avtabri. One of them in desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet and girt about the...earthenware and salt and brazen vessels. Formerly the Phoenicians alone carried on this traffic from Gadeira [Cadiz], concealing the passage from every one...
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Ethnology of the British Islands

Robert Gordon Latham - 1852 - 280 pages
...of the Artabri. One of them is a desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, and girt about the...earthenware, and salt, and brazen vessels. Formerly the Phoenicians alone carried on this traffic from Gadeira, concealing the passage from every one ; and...
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The annals of England, an epitome of English history [by W.E. Flaherty].

William Edward Flaherty - 1855 - 440 pages
...civilized in their habits." Strabo too says, " The Cassiterides* are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, and girt about the...breast, walking with staves, and bearded like goats." Ca:sar describes the inland regions as producing tin, and the maritime, iron ; but other writers more...
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The Annals of England: An Epitome of English History, from ..., Volume 1

William E. Flaherty - 1855 - 448 pages
...civilized in their habits." Strabo too says, " The Cassiterides* are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, and girt about the...breast, walking with staves, and bearded like goats." Caesar describes the inland regions as producing tin, and the "maritime, iron ; but other writers more...
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The Annals of England: An Epitome of English History, Volume 1

William Edward Flaherty - 1855 - 456 pages
...civilized in their habits." Strabo too says, " The Cassiteridess are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, and girt about the...breast, walking with staves, and bearded like goats." Coesar describes the inland regions as producing tin, and the maritime, iron ; but other writers more...
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Revolutions of Race in English History, Volume 1

Robert Vaughan - 1860 - 596 pages
...in black cloaks, clad in tunies, reaching to the feet, and girt about the breast. Walking BooJ Jwith staves, and bearded like goats, they subsist by their...earthenware, and salt, and brazen vessels. Formerly the Phoenicians alone carried on this traffic, by Gadeira (Gibraltar), concealing the passage from every...
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Lectures on the History of England, Volume 1

William Longman - 1863 - 528 pages
...thy fairs." Strabo tells us it was the Phoenicians who traded here, and he sajs that the inhabitants "subsist by their cattle, ""• leading for the most...barter with the merchants for earthenware and salt, and vessels of brass." A later writer describes their mode of getting the tin. He says, " They prepare...
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A reading book of English history and biography, ed. by R.K. Brewer

rev. William Legge - 1863 - 402 pages
...and Strabo adds, when speaking of the Cassiterides, that they are clad in tunics reaching to their feet, and girt about the breast, walking with staves, and bearded like goats. We must therefore conclude that Caesar spoke from the report of others, or else that he inferred what...
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Our British Ancestors: Who and what Were They? An Inquiry Serving to ...

Samuel Lysons - 1865 - 578 pages
...the inhabitants of the Scilly Isles. " They are inhabited," says he, " by men in black cloaks clad in tunics reaching to the feet, and girt about the...breast, walking with staves and bearded like goats." Were not these the Cymry? Compare this account with the description given by Merula n of six stone...
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