civilisation extended as far down into the Valley of the Danube as the district of Salzburg. They probably worked the salt-mines of the whole of that region. They are said also to have been masters of Corsica, and to have founded Tarraco near Tarragona in Spain.
The Etruskans were famous not only for their bronze work, but also for their amber, and the chief port in which the amber trade was carried on with the ancient Greeks was the city of Hatria, on the north of the mouth of the Po (Eridanus), which gives its name to the Hadriatic, from the waters of which it is now separated by a barrier of silt upwards of fourteen miles' in width. The routes by which the amber was conveyed to it from the shores of the Baltic have been satisfactorily ascertained by the finds of amber, as well as by the discovery of articles of Etruskan workmanship in various parts of Germany.[1]
The Etruskan Trade-Routes to the Amber Coasts.
The two most important, as well as the oldest, trade-routes leading to the amber coasts are those starting from Hatria, and leading through the Alpine passes into the Valley of the Danube. The first, I, of map (Fig. 168, I.), took the line of the Valley of the Adige past Verona, Roveredo, and Trient, over the Brenner Pass into the Valley of the Inn, and crossed the Danube either at Linz or Passau. Thence it passed over the Bohemian
- ↑ The principal authorities consulted in dealing with the trade-routes of the Etruskans and Greeks are Wiberg, Der Einfluss der klassischen Völker auf den Norden durch den Handelsverkehr, 8vo, Hamburg, 1867; Pierson, Elektron, Berlin, 8vo, 1869; Genthe, Uber den Etruskischen Tauschhandel nach dem Norden, 8vo, Frankfurt, 1878; Von Sadowski, Die Handelsstrassen der Griechen und Römer, 8vo, Jena, 1877.
