[1473] See the Annotations on Arist. Auscult. Mirab. p. 98.
[1474] I am of opinion that this Latin name for cobalt was first used by Agricola.
[1475] Lib. xxxiii. cap. 13. Theophrast. De Lapid. § 97.
[1476] Aristot. Auscult. Mirab. p. 123.
[1477] Bowles, Introducion à la Historia Natural y à la Geographia Fisica de España.—Madrit, 1775 p. 399.
[1478] Recherches Philosophiques sur les Egyptiens et les Chinois. Berlin, 1773, i. p. 345.—Delaval’s Experimental Inquiry into the Cause of the Changes of Colour in Opake and Coloured Bodies. Lond. 1774, 4to, p. 56.
[1479] Briefe aus Welschland. Prag, 1773, 8vo, p. 114, 136, 223.
[1480] Blue enameled figures of the Egyptian deities may be found in Marbres de la Galerie de Dresde, tab. 190.
[1481] [The blue colour of the glass, of which the beautiful Portland Vase is composed, is owing to cobalt.]
[1482] Déscription de la Chine, ii. p. 223, 230, 232. I have, however, often heard, and even remarked myself, that the blue on the new Chinese porcelain is not so beautiful as that on the old.