CCXXXVI MALMESBURY CORRESPONDENCE: Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury; containing an account of His Mission to the Courts of Madrid, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Second, and the Hague; and his special missions to Berlin, Brunswick and the French Republic, ed. Earl of Malmesbury. London, 1844. Period of 1767-1797. CCXXXVII BURKE'S WORKS: The Works and Correspondence of Edmund Burke. London, 1852. Speeches of, Lond. 1859. For missing correspondence, completing this valuable source, see T. Macknight's Life and Times of Edmund Burke, London, 1858-1861. CCXXXVIII CORNWALLIS CORRESPONDENCE: Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis. Ed. C. Ross, Lond., 1859. Period of 1776-1806. Colonial affairs. CCXXXIX MEMOIRS OF THE COURT AND CABINETS OF GEORGE THE THIRD. From original family documents by the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. London, 1853-55 Period of 1782-1800. Valuable for letters of eminent per sons. SECTION 10. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY The source material for the study of the history of the Nineteenth Century is so voluminous as to preclude even an attempt to outline its resources within the limits of the space at command. The student will, however, by following the bibliographical lines indicated for preceding periods, have no difficulty in securing an ample supply of material for the study of recent history. CHAPTER III THE BRITAIN OF THE ANCIENTS 11. First Mention of the Islands afterwards called British Herodotus HERODOTUS (b. circa 484 B.C.; d. 408 B.C.?) was the earliest Grecian historian. His History contains the first authentic allusion to the British Islands. The form of the reference indicates that definite knowledge of the "Tin Islands," the Cassiterides, generally believed to be the British Islands, was current among the trading countries of the Mediterranean at a period somewhat earlier than that of Herodotus. Of the extremities of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with certainty, ... nor am I acquainted with the islands Cassiterides, from which tin is brought to us. (Herodoti Historiarum libro III § 115, ed. Abicht-Kallenberg, Teubner Text Leipsic, 1890.) 12. First Mention of the Islands by Name Aristotle ARISTOTLE (b. circa 384 B.C.; d. 322 B.C.?) Controversies have more than shaken the belief that The Universe was written by Aristotle; yet the undoubted antiquity of the work justifies the insertion of the excerpt given below. If we accept the attribution of The Universe to the great Stagirite we may confidently assert that therein is contained the earliest recorded allusion by name to the British Islands. Without which [the Pillars of Hercules] the ocean flows round the earth; in this ocean, however, are two islands, and those very large, called Bretannic, Albion and Ierne, which are larger than those before mentioned and lie beyond the Celti; and other two not less than these, Taprobane, beyond the Indians, lying obliquely in respect of the main land, and that called Phebol, situate over against the Arabic Gulf; moreover not a few small islands, around the Bretannic Isles and Iberia, encircle as with a diadem this earth, which we have already said to be an island. (Aristoteles de Mundo capite iii, Prussian Royal Academy. Ed., Berlin, 1831-70.) |