[359] Plin. lib. xxii. c. 25.
[360] Trotz, Not. in Prim. Scribendi Origine, p. 73, 74.
[361] P. Festi de Verb. Sig. lib. xx. Hesychius calls this cement μεμαλάγμενον κηρόν.—Plin. lib. xxxvi. c. 24.
[362] Lib. viii. c. 4.
[363] Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique. Paris, 1759, 4to, iv. p. 33.
[364] Mémoires conc. l’Histoire d’Auxerre. Par. 1743, ii. p. 517.
[365] Bibliothèque des Auteurs de Bourgogne, 2 vols. fol. ii. p. 217.
[366] Histoire Générale des Drogues. Paris, 1735.
[367] This Rousseau appears also in the History of Cochineal, as he sent to Pomet a paper on that subject, which was contradicted by the well-known Plumier in the Journal des Sçavans for 1694. He is mentioned also by Labat, who says he saw him at Rochelle; but at that time he must have been nearly a hundred years of age.
[368] Von Murr, in his learned Beschreibung der Merkwürdigkeiten in Nürnberg, Nurnb. 1778, 8vo, p. 702, says that Spanish wax was not invented, or at least not known, before the year 1559. This appears also from a manuscript of the same year, which contains various receipts in the arts and medicine. There are some in it for making the common white sealing-wax green or red.