Note 33 — III. THULE, PART OF GREAT BRITAIN
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Kassiterides is Aryan not Semitic; the metal in Sanskrit being Kastīra, which, like the Arabic Khasdír, may be from the Greek. The Scilly islands were also called Æstrumnides, a name which occurs in R. Festus Avienus (loc. cit.):
“Ast hinc duobus in sacram, sic insulam Dixere prisci, solibus cursus rati est. Hæc inter undas multum cespitem jacit, Eam que latè gens Hibernorum colit. Propinqua rursus insula Albionum patet. Tartesiisque in terminos Æstrumnidum Negociandi mos erat Carthaginis Etiam colonis, et vulgus inter Herculis Agitans columnas hæc adibant æquora.”
All this, be it remembered, is borrowed from Punic sources. Therefore Hibernia is explained by Bochart as “nihil aliud quam ultima habitatio,” and Keltic Ierne is translated the “uttermost point.”