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126.6.

plumbum album: Caesar is mistaken in placing tin mines inland and iron on the coast; it was just the other way. The tin mines of Cornwall were known to the Phcenicians from the earliest times. He does not say whether iron was used in the arts, which, if true, would imply a pretty advanced civilization.


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