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of copper to the Clialybes, others to the Cyclopes. Hesiod 
says, that iron was discovered in Crete, by the Idsean Dactyli.*^^ 
Erichthonius, the Athenian, or, as some people say, iEacus, 
discovered silver."^^ Gold mines, and the mode of fusing that 
metal, were discovered by Cadmus, the Phoenician, at the 
mountain of Pangaeus,'^^ 9r, according to other accounts, by 
Thoas or Eaclis, in Panchaia;^^ or else by Sol, the son of 
Oceanus, whom Gellius mentions as having been the first who 
employed honey in medicine. Midacritus"^^ was the first who 
brought tin from the island called Cassiteris.'^'^ The Cyclopes 
invented the art of working iron.^^ Choraebus, the Athenian, 
was the first who made earthen vessels -^^ but Anacharsis, the 
to have been first known in those countries, where the ore of the metal is 
found in large quantities, which is the case in the region that was anciently 
named Scythia. — B. 
72 According to Pausanias, the art of forging iron was discovered by 
Glaucus of Chios. Strabo ascribes it to the Idsean Dactyli, and the art of 
manufacturing utensils of bronze and iron to the Telchines ; the former 
were inhabitants of Crete, the latter of Ehodes. — B. 
"'^ According to Hyginus, silver was first discovered in Scythia by Indus, 
and introduced into Attica by Erichthonius. ^acus is said by Cassio- 
dorus to have been the discoverer of gold, — B. 
"'^ Pangseus is generally described as a mountain on the confines of 
Macedonia and Thrace ; but Marcus says that it was a mountain of Abys- 
sinia, near the source of the Nile, and he adduces various passages from 
the ancients to prove that the Egyptians had an extensive traflic there in 
gold at a very early period; Ajasson, voL vi. pp. 191, 192. — B. 
Thoas was the king of the Tauric Chersonnesus, and Panchaia was a 
district of Arabia Felix ; it does not appear what connection Thoas could 
have with Panchaia. — B. 
76 We have no account of any individual bearing this name, and it has 
been proposed by Hardouin to substitute for it *' Midas Phrygius," who 
is said, both by Hyginus and by Cassiodorus, to have been the discoverer of 
lead.— B. 
"^■^ From the accounts of Pliny, B. iv. c. 36, as well as of Strabo, and the 
other ancient geographers, it appears, that he here alludes to the Scilly Isles, 
including, probably, the western extremity of Cornwall. We are informed 
by Herodotus, B. iii. c. 115, that tin was brought from them, and they 
were hence named the " tin islands," from the Greek word for tin, 
Ka(7(TirepoQ. — B. 
''s On this subject we may refer to Note 72. — B. 
Pliny, in B. xxxv. c. 45, informs us, that Choraebus invented the art 
of making pottery, and that it was first exercised, as a trade, by Chalcos- 
thenes. He says, that a certain district of Athens obtained the name of 
" Ceramicos," from his manufactory of earthen- ware, derived from KspafioQ, 
potter's clay." — B. 
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