Vlii ADDITIONAL NOTES. Quarterly, 1928, pp. 155-9, they were Greek emigrants who had ventured themselves far into the Danube lands and had thus lost touch with the mother-country, yet still contrived to remit a yearly offering to Apollo. According to Herodotus the starting-point of their journey was 'Scythia,' which may here be taken to mean the Rumanian corn-lands. The gifts of the Hyperboreans were almost certainly not amber, but ears of wheat, the firstfruits of their harvest. In Callimachus' Hymn to Delos (11. 283, 284) the offerings are described as P. 34. The amber river Eridanus Jutish amber travelled to Italy by way of the Rhine and the Inn, but not, so far as is known, along the Rh6ne. The identi- fication of the Eridanus with the Padus first occurs in Pherecydes, a writer of the early fifth century. (Jacoby, Fragm. griech. Hist, vol. i, fr. 74.) Pp- 35» 36- The early tin trade In prehistoric days supplies of tin perhaps reached the Medi- terranean lands from Bohemia, but throughout historical times the main source of tin was in the Atlantic coastlands. The earliest Atlantic consignments probably came from Brittany, but the trade of the Carthaginians in tin was with Cornwall. The Spanish tin mines do not appear to have been worked before the Roman conquest. (Gary, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1924, pp. 166,167.) Pp. 37-39. The Cassiterides The doubts of Herodotus, 3. 115, as to the existence of Tin Islands in the Atlantic have been confirmed by modern prospectors, who have ascertained that no important deposits of tin have ever been exploited on any Atlantic islands. The term 'Cassiterides' may originally have been a floating expression. But the land to which Strabo referred under that name was undoubtedly Cornwall, which the early Mediterranean traders, by an error common among explorers of all ages, mistook for a cluster of islands. See T. Rice Holmes,^«fl