OF THE ORICIX Ol CHEMISTRY. i* 



Tubalcain, the eighth man from Adam f thcr 

 worker and hammerer of iron and copper*; the 

 fame whom the heathens jccm to have wor- 

 fhippcd under the name of Vulcan. We arc 

 not acquainted with any proofs of his (kill; and 

 indeed it is inoft likely they would be of the 

 rudeft kind. The title of chcmift, however, 

 with which he appears to have been honoured 

 by many, would have applied fully as well to 

 every fmith and melter of metals. Some indeed 

 inlift,that neither brafs nor iron couidbc wrought 

 and varioufiy moulded, unlcfs the method of in- 

 vcfiigating the nature of minerals, of burning, 

 purifying, and fcparating them, were prcvioufly 

 uncle rfloocl, 



If ratals however were found native in the 

 neighbourhood of Paradiic, there could be no 

 occafion for all ihcfe proccfies. Mention is 

 ;nade of gold (liicc the beginning of the world f; 

 and in the time of Abraham many tilings were 

 bought and fold by determined weights of filvcrj. 

 Tliemoft ancient monuments clearly denionllratc 

 the great quantity of thefe metal.-*; and il is* 

 not unlikely that the ingenious Tubalcainlhould 

 obferve they were capable of extension under 

 the liamrner, and of fufion by ilre; and that 



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* Gen. ir. 22. 

 f Gen. ii. 1 1, 12. 

 ^ Gen. xxiii. 16. 



Tlicrc was once a time, \vncn Tnankltxi were totally itrnr,- 

 jcrs to the ufc of Arc; and they fcc:n to l:r.vc learnt its mture 



