f that
             medallion would turn up somewhere and happened to be inscribed, then historians would
             know for sure that the elephant crossed the Rhone with Hannibal. Cottrell stopped by the
             little town of Vaison-la-Romaine to survey the triangular area of land nearby which
             Polybius calls "the island". Cottrell also included in his book what Polybius wrote about
             "the island" and he wrote,
             ...