The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

by James Augustus St. John

[2603]. Id. i. 5.

[2604]. Athen. xiv. 61.

[2605]. Id. ii. 82.

[2606]. Dioscor. i. 14.

[2607]. Plin. Nat. Hist. xxxv. 95.

[2608]. Dioscor. iii. 94.

[2609]. Id. v. 104.

[2610]. Id. ii. 10.

[2611]. Theophrast. de Lapid. § 44.

[2612]. Dioscor. v. 160. Sword and dagger handles, and mouth-pieces for pipes, are carved from the jasper-agate of Yarkund. Vigne, Affghanistân, p. 209. It is reported that silver, copper, iron, lead, antimony, lapis lazuli, (cf. Osbeck, Voyage to China, i. 244,) and asbestos are found in different parts of the mountains around Kabul. The sand of the Kirman stream is washed for gold, Id. p. 208. For a full account of the lapis lazuli, as known to the ancients, see Gemme Fisica Sotteranea, 1. iii. c. viii. t. i. p. 416. Tournefort, Voyage du Levant. t. iii. p. 128.