[524] The authors here quoted, corresponding to the above letters, are as follows:—
[a] Plinius, xxxiv. 16, p. 668.
[b] Cæsar De Bello Gallico, v. 12.
[c] Aristot. Auscult. Mirab. cap. 51, p. 100.
[d] Galenus De Antidot. i. 8. p. 209. ed. gr. Basil. vol. ii. p. 431.
[e] Plin. iv. 22. p. 630.
[f] Herodot. lib. iii. p. 254. edit. Wess.
[g] Plin. iv. 16, p. 223.
[h] Strabo, lib. iii. p. 219. ed. Almel.
[i] Strabo, lib. xv. p. 1055.
[j] Diodor. Sic. lib. v. p. 347. ed. Wess.
[k] Diod. Sic. lib. v. p. 361.
[l] Stephan. Byzant. v. Tartessus, p. 639.
[m] Dionys. Periegesis, v. 563.
[n] Prisciani Perieg. v. 575.
[o] Avienus Descript. Urbis, v. 743.
[p] Homeri Iliad. xviii. 612.
[q] Iliad. xi. 25.
[r] Iliad. xxiii. 561.
[s] Iliad. xviii. 565, 574.
[t] Hesiod. Scut. Herculis, v. 208.
[u] Aristot. Œconom. lib. ii. p. 594.
[v] Pollux Onomast. p. 1055.
[w] Pomp. Mela, iii. 6, 24, p. 275.
[x] Plin. xxxiii. 5, p. 621.
[y] Plin. xxxiv. 17, § 48, p. 669; and lib. xxxiii. § 45: Optima specula apud majores fuerant Brundisiana stanno et ære mixtis. From a similar mixture the best metallic specula are cast at present.
[525] Borlase’s Antiquities of Cornwall. Ox. 1754, fol. p. 29.
[526] Lib. iv. cap. 22, p. 230.
[527] Minéralogie Homerique, Par. 1790, 8vo. A small treatise much esteemed.
[528] Lib. xi. 24, 25.
[529] See what I have already said, vol. i. p. [472].
[530] Savot, p. 53.—Watson’s Chemical Essays, iv. p. 187.
[531] Schefferi Lapponia, Francof. 1673, 4to, pp. 210, 261, where a figure is given of a Lapland woman drawing threads.
[532] Phil. Trans. 1702, 1703, vol. xxiii. p. 1129.