12 AWriENT ALLOYS AT GOSLAR. 



Hartz, He was represented as an old man, with a long 

 beard and hideous countenance, standing barefoot on a 

 fish rough with scales and spines, holding a wheel in his 

 left hand, and a basket filled with flowers and fruit in his 

 right. 



On this altar the first-born of mothers was sacrificed to 

 htm, as to Moloch. 



The abolition of the pagan worship by Charlemagne 

 overturned this idol, but his altar was reserved for the use 

 of the Christian church. 

 FfoVaW^ fabu- Xhe critical history of Germany does not acknowledge 

 any god Krodo, but takes the whole for a fable invented by 

 the monks of the middle age. 



Howerer this may be, the altar appears to have been used 

 for burning animals to some deitj'. 

 The altar de- Xlie shape of the altar is a hollow parallelopipedon, three 

 feet three inches long, two feet and a half wide, and two 

 feet seven inches high. It stands on four feet, supported 

 by little men of hideous aspect. It is covered with a slab 

 of white marble. 

 The metal. j'^^ metal of this altar is of a brass yellow colour, a 



hackly fracture, and easily polished. Its specific gfavity is . 

 8-767. 

 Analysii of it. Qn 200 grains of it nitric acid was poured, which dissolved 

 it completely, without the assistance of heat. 



The solution was divided into two parts. Into one of 

 these was dropped a solution of sulphate of soda. The 

 precipitate, when well washed and calcined, presented 

 18*25 grs of sulphate of lead, answering to 13 grs of me» 

 tallic lead. 



The supernatant liquid was mixed with 200 grs of sul- 

 phuric acid, and evaporated to dryness. The mass was 

 redisbolved, and iron added, which precipitated 69 grains 

 of copper. 



T he other half of the solution was mixed with five parts 

 of distilled vinegar, and the mixture poured on a thin plate 

 of hammered lead in a shallow dish. 



After a few days, and by the assistance of heat, the 

 copper was precipitated. The liquor being filtered off, the 



lead 



