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HAVING been from home, I did not see the letter of “A. H.” in your publication of March 16 until yesterday. His only objection to my derivation of the name Britain is that the word tin in his opinion was “not used in this island so early as the argument for its forming part of the word Britain requires. The following remarks will show that it must have been used in this island quite as early as the word Britain.
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EDMONDS, R. On the Derivation of the name “Britain”. Nature 3, 446 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003446b0
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