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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 JEsculapius, 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 Phoenician. 



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 Phoenician origin, thus : 



Tyrsenus — The old land — tr/j-t ye<xn<xojf. 



Tarchon — The head land — t]j\ ce<xn, or Cantyre. 



Attis — Rebuke, repulse — <xtaj^". 



Telephus — The land of death, or malaria — "coll<\rb-o.jfe. 



Auga — A bottom or flat valley. 



Perusia — The city on the gentle slope of a river — t>;0/t 



Ciris — The swift stream — cjpti ujf^e. 



Italy — The corn country — jt-t<tf.lam. 



Argessa — The country of skilful tillage — <x^t gaopx. 



Ausonia — The noble old country — <\0f on ja. 



Tyrsenia — The land of old age — tjp. fe<\n<\.ojr. 



The island of Crete was one of the chief seats of the 

 Cabiri, where they bore the names of Curetes, Idaei Dactyli, 

 and Telchines. Nonnus says they were the sons of Neptune ; 

 and Diodorus that they were allied to the ocean; that they 



