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children were probably the seven sciences personified and 
deified. Thus Uranus was astronomy ; Neptune, navigation ; 
Pluto, mining ; Jupiter Arotrius, (Ceres or Cybele,) agricul- 
ture ; Mercury, commerce or trade ; Vulcan, mechanics or 
metallurgy ; Apollo, music and the fine arts ; to which was 
added sculapius, the inventor of medicine. It is remark- 
able that Chrysor, or Vulcan, stands in the same generation 
from Protogonus as Tubal Cain does from Adam. 
The Cabiri were the inventors of navigation, and their 
connexion with mining led to the supposition that they were 
infernal deities. Phornutus has preserved a curious list of 
the titles of Pluto, which he vainly attempted to resolve in 
his own language, but which have all reference to mining 
and metals in the Pheenician. 
The Pelasgi are said by Herodotus to have occupied 
Samothrace, and to have established the Cabiric mysteries, 
which they afterwards, under the name of Tyrrheni, carried 
into Italy. Accordingly we find the whole of Etruria re- 
plete with names of Pelasgic or Pheenician origin, thus : 
Tyrsenus—The old land—tjp peanaoyy. 
Tarchon—The head land—cjp cean, or Cantyre. 
Attis—Rebuke, repulse—atcajy. 
Telephus—The l\and of death, or malaria—collam-ajye. 
Auga—A bottom or flat valley. 
Perusia—The city on the gentle slope of a river—bjon 
uay Ja. 
Ciris—The swift stream—cjpb ujyze. 
Italy—The corn country—jc-callam. 
Argessa—The country of skilful tillage—an zaoya. 
Ausonia—The noble old country—aoyr on ja. 
Tyrsenia—The land of old age—cjp yeanaojy. 
The island of Crete was one of the chief seats of the 
Cabiri, where they bore the names of Curetes, Idzi Dactyli, 
and Telchines. Nonnus says they were the sons of Neptune; 
and Diodorus that they were allied to the ocean; that they 
