2'6 Dr. Wall on the Ufe of Symhots. 
gold came to be typified, by the circle of the fun, 
and filver by the crefcent of the moon. The 
number of the metals, at that time known, agree¬ 
ing exaCtly with the number of planets, would 
lead to an extenfion of this analogy to the whole* 
and every metal would eafily be found, or fuppofed 
to have a relation to one or other of the feven 
planets, and receive as its mark the aftronomical 
character of that planet. Some circumftances, 
which might give a foundation for thefe fuppofi- 
tions, fhall now be enumerated. Copper was found, 
principally, or in the mod confiderable quantities, 
in the ifland of Cyprus, and the manufacture of 
brafs was not only invented there, but carried to a 
degree of perfection unknown in other countries* 
infomuch that we are informed by Pliny,* that 
either the metal derived its name from the ifland, 
or the ifland from the metal. As this ifland 
was fuppofed to be under the immediate domi¬ 
nion of Venus,f an obvious connection was dif« 
* Nat. Hilt. Lib. XXXIV. 2. 
■}• K-wpos PiK? uvyoti; IvJoflt xoAwk 
K*v£T, E7r»!ga1o» c&fv A 'AQpohrn ?. 
Cyprus autem ortum verfus Pamphylium intra finum 
Albuitur, amabilis Urbs Dioneas Veneris. 
Well's Dionjfius, 124O. 
Ipfa Paphum fublimis abit, fedefque revifit 
Lastafuas: ubi Templum illi, centumque fabso 
Thurecalent arse, fertifque recentibus halant. 
Virg. ^En. I. 419. 
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