Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum,
Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis
Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter.”—A. P. 48.
[17] e.g., whether Artillery means bows and arrows or cannon in 1 Sam. xx. 40; but this is an exceedingly simple case.
[18] Except one disputed Sanskrit text which will be found in Rāy’s “Hindu Chemistry,” pp. 97-8.
[19] “Les terres d’où l’on tire le kien, ou la couperose de Chine, fermentent comme celles du salpêtre; on y est souvent trompé, ce n’est qu’au goût qu’on peut distinguer les unes des autres.”—Père Incarville, a Chinese missionary, in Reinaud and Favé, p. 251.
[20] Supposed to be of Greek origin.
[21] Journal Asiatique, Oct. 1849, p. 283.
[22] Reinaud and Favé, p. 142. On the next page, 143, sarcosti is spelled (by the same writer) salcosti.
[23] “Tunc aquam illam (salt water) coque in vase vitreo.”—Albert Groot in Zetzner’s Theatrum Chemicum, 1613, ii. 433.