[2773] See B xviii. c. 2.
[2774] See Chapter [24] of this Book.
[2775] Beckmann says, in reference to this passage, supposing that a kind of spar is meant by the word phengites—“It is probable that the openings of the walls of the building where the windows used to be, were in this instance filled up with phengites. which, by admitting a faint light, prevented the place from being dark, even when the doors were shut.”— Hist. Inv. Vol. II. p. 66. Bohn’s Edition.
[2776] In Chapter [10] of this Book.
[2777] See B. v. cc. 22, 35, for two places of this name.
[2778] A Celtic word, probably.
[2779] See B. iii. c. 2.
[2780] Identical, probably, with the Tufa of modern Mineralogy, which thence derives its name, a Carbonate of lime.
[2781] Thus reversing the order of things with the Romans, who put the lime on their houses, and the pitch in their wines. See B. xiv. cc. 3, 24, 25.
[2782] See B. xiv. c. 24.