Excerpt from The Place-Names of England and Wales Written record of British history before the arrival of Julius Caesar's legions in 55 there is all but none. True, the Cassiterides tin islands - are referred to by Herodotus, the father of history himself, as well as by Strabo; and these Cassiterides must have included part of the mainland of Cornwall as well as the Scilly Isles. There is a Cassiter Street in Bodmin at this day. The general name, britain,1 also goes back to Aristotle. For the rest there yawns a vast blank. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.