CONTENTS 



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VOL. I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Earliest knowledge of the precious metals. Sacred writings. 

 Hesiod. Scandinavian museum. The patriarchs. 

 Book of Job ... Page 1 



CHAPTER I. 



On the accumulation of the precious metals, from the most re- 

 mote ages to the establishment of the imperial government 

 in Rome. The Hebrews. Solomon's temple. Assyria 

 and Persia. Nineveh. Babylon. Tribute to Darius 

 Hystaspes. Darius. Greece. Wealth of Croesus. Of 

 Pytheus. Of the free states of Greece. Of Alexander. 

 Of his successors. The Romans. Wealth of indi- 

 viduals. Of the Emperor Vespasian's estimate. Julius 

 Caesar . . . .7 



CHAPTER II. 



On the mines of the ancients in the several parts of the 

 world. Asia, east of Persia. Phoenicia, Palestine, 

 Babylon, Media, and Bactriana. India beyond the 

 Ganges. Anecdotes of the Bactrians and Arimaspi. 

 Ural Mountains. Siberia, Persia, and India. Tribute 

 from India. Egypt and Nubia. Mines in the mountains 



