A70 ON THE ANCIENT, &a,. 
not easily extracted. | Ifso i euast have been. accidentally... Phese were 
ealled Pyrites auriferi, argentei, and Chalco-pyrites. The pyrites argen- 
tev are called, in a more modern language, Marcassita-argeniea. - 
Tuxsr gold making birds, flies and spotted tygers, are by the Hindiis 
éorfined to the N.oW. parts of India; and the Yuz, according to the 
“yur Acbert, begins to be seen about forty Cos beyond Agra. Extn is of 
that opinion also, when he says, that the gold making ants never went 
beyond the river Campylis and Crestas, I believe with Mecasruenss like- 
wise, places them in that part of India. The Campylis,* now Cambali, is 
a considerable stream, four miles to the west of Ambala, toward: Sirhind: 
and it falls into the Drishadvati, now the Caggar, which is the common 
boundary of the east, and north-west divisions of India, according to. a 
curious passage from the commentaries on the Védas, and kindly commu- 
nicated to me by Mr. CoLesrooke, our late President.. 
* ilian-de-animal, Lib. 3. C. 4 
