Cassiterides

It is generally believed, that the Cassiterides were the Scilly Islands, off the coast of Cornwall.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson William Stevenson 1784

Cornish Mining Company on false pretences (as other polite scoundrels have done before, and doubtless as others will do again), bringing into unmerited disrepute those genuine and grand old mines of Cornwall which have yielded stores of tin and copper, to the enriching of the English nation, ever since those old-world days when the Phoenicians sailed their adventurous barks to the "Cassiterides" in quest of tin.

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines 1859

The barbarous island of Cassiterides, in which men lived in the woods in the time of Plato, has finally produced philosophers who are as much beyond him as Plato was beyond those of his contemporaries who reasoned not at all.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Bronze plates, silver ingots, and iron bars alternated with pigs of tin brought from the Cassiterides over the Dark Sea; gums from the country of the Blacks were running over their bags of palm bark; and gold dust heaped up in leathern bottles was insensibly creeping out through the worn-out seams.

Salammbo 2003

Years before, Crassus's father had sailed to the Tin Isles, the Cassiterides, and negotiated an exclusive contract for himself to convey tin from the Cassiterides across northern Spain to the shores of the Middle Sea.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Voyaging to the Cassiterides — the fabled Tin Isles — he had overawed all who met him with the magnificence of his Romanness, offered better terms and guaranteed firmer delivery on the shores of the Middle Sea for every pound of tin the miners could produce.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Rome, was probably brought from the Cassiterides, now the Scilly islands. whence it had been an article of commerce by the Phoenicians and

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Of the disputed passage in Herodotus respecting the Cassiterides, the interpretation [7] of Rennell, in his _Geographical

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"Through the intercourse which the Phoenicians, by means of their factories in the Persian Gulph, maintained with the east coast of India, the Sanscrit word _Kastira_, expressing a most useful product of farther India, and still existing among the old Aramaic idioms in the Arabian word _Kasdir_, became known to the Greeks even before Albion and the British Cassiterides had been visited."

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It is almost certain that the isles cannot have been the Cassiterides, or tin-islands; they present only slight traces of tin-working, and it is far from likely that the tin-workers of Cornwall would have shipped their metal to this isolated spot in order to find a market with foreign traders.

The Cornwall Coast