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 414 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. remote antiquity ; but they nevertheless deserved well of civilisa- tion by discovering fresh deposits of the metal, and by exploring the quicker and surer high-road of the sea. From the time that they first began to navigate the western Mediterranean, nearly all the tin used in the ancient world and we know how great the consumption of bronze must have been was supplied by them. They began with the deposits of Etruria, and afterwards they FIG. 356. Bronze foot, from a piece of furniture. New York Museum. went in succession to Spain, to the mouths of the Loire, the Charente, and the rivers of Brittany, and finally to the Cassiterides the Scilly islands and south-western point of Cornwall. 1 1 A pig of tin has been found in England of quite a different shape from those now used. It has been called Phoenician, but there is no mark or other evidence of that kind to support the ascription. See RAWLINSON, Herodotus, 3rd edition, P. 54-