205.
[47] _Sea_ .-- Herodotus, l.vii.c.

89.
[48] _Me_.--"Sic mihi peritissimi Scotorum nunciaverunt." The reader will remember that the Irish were called Scots, although the appellative of Ierins or Ierne continued to be given to the country from the days of Orpheus to those of Claudius.

By Roman writers Ireland was more usually termed Hibernia.

Juvenal calls it Juverna.
[49] _Writers_ .-- The circumnavigation of Africa by a Phoenician ship, in the reign of Neco, about 610 B.C., is credited by Humboldt, Rennell, Heeren, Grote, and Rawlinson.

Of their voyages to Cornwall for tin there is no question, and it is more than probable they sailed to the Baltic for amber.