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Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK V., CHAPTER IV. (search)
the marshy districts in the neighbourhood. Between the Sirenusse and PosidoniaPesti. is Marcina,Vietri. a city founded by the Tyrrheni, but inhabited by the Samnites. [To go] from thence into Pompæa,Pompeii. through Nuceria,Nocera. [you cross] an isthmus of not more than 120 stadia. The Picentes extend as far as the river Silaro,The ancient Silaris. which separates their country on this side from ancient Leucania.We are inclined to read Leucania with Du Theil. The Paris manuscript, No. 1393, reads kani/an. The water of this river is reported to possess the singular property of petrifying any plant thrown into it, preserving at the same time both the colour and form.Pliny, in his Natural History, (lib. ii. § 106,) has confirmed Strabo's account. It appears from Cluvier that the people who inhabit the banks of the Silaro are not acquainted with any circumstances which might corroborate the statement. (Cluvier, Ital. Ant. lib. iv. c, 14.) Picentia was formerly the capital of
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK VI., CHAPTER II. (search)
nti. Virgil calls Agrigentum by the Greek name, Æn. iii. 703, Arduus inde Acragas ostentat maxima longe Mœnia, magnanimûm quondam generator equorum.Æn. iii. 703 of the Agrigentini, 20; and toAs the distance from Agrigentum to Camarina greatly exceeds another 20 miles, Kramer supposes that the words, and to Gela, 20, have been omitted by the copyist. Cama- rina,Torre di Camarana. another 20; then to Pachynus, 50; thence again along the third side to Syracuse, 36;The Paris MS. No. 1393, used by the French translators, has 33; the Paris MS. 1396, and the Medici pint. 28, No. 5, give 20 miles. from Syracuse to Catana, 60; then to Tauromenium,Taormina. 33; thence to Messana, 30.Gossellin observes, that the distance from Messina to Cape Pelorias, which would complete the circuit of Sicily, is about 9 miles. Thus on footi. e. by land. from Pachynus to Pelorias we have 168 [miles], and from MessanaMessina. to [Cape] Lilybeum, on the Via Valeria,An intelligent critic has imag
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK VII., CHAPTER III. (search)
efore seem absurd to suppose that only those among the Getæ who remained without wives were considered pious, but that the care of worshipping the Supreme Being is great among this nation is not to be doubted, after what Posidonius has related, and they even abstain from animal food from religious motives, as likewise on account of the testimony of other historians. For it is said that one of the nation of the Getæ, named Zamolxis,Za/lmocis is the reading of the Paris manuscript, No. 1393, and we should have preferred it for the text, as more likely to be a Getæn name, but for the circumstance of his being generally written Zamolxis. had served Pythagoras, and had acquired with this philosopher some astronomical knowledge, in addition to what he had learned from the Egyptians, amongst whom he had travelled. He returned to his own country, and was highly esteemed both by the chief rulers and the people, on account of his predictions of astronomical phenomena, and eventu
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
don, 1848, says that the earliest playing-cards which he has had an opportunity of examining were evidently stenciled, and of the date of 1440. Stenciling cards was quite a business at Nuremberg, 1433-77, as appears by the town books. Chatto regards cards as an Eastern invention, and supposes that they became known in Europe as a popular game between 1360 and 1390. Covelluzzo, an Italian chronicler of the fifteenth century, says they were brought to Viterbo in 1379. Charles VI. used them 1393, and thereafter laws and commercial notices and restrictions give evidence that they were very common. There is a great deal of time lost in playing cards, said a moralizing gentleman. Yes, said a lady devotee, in shuffling and cutting. But then, how is it to be avoided? Lady Spencer may have been one of the parties conversing, and Mark Isambard Brunel, the philosopher, another. This talented mechanician, at all events, did invent a machine for shuffling and cutting playing-cards witho
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
that the earliest cards he has noticed are of the year 1440, and were made by stencils. Cards was an Oriental game, and was introduced into Europe about 1360-1390 Covelluzzo states that three packs of cards were made for Charles VI, of France in 1393. Laws in relation to their manufacture and use were passed in Italy, France, Germany, and England, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths), who founded a kingdom in Italy A. D. 493, wasing the width of the table, and having attached a number of rods c, carrying flat rubbers of wood covered with felt. The attachments of the connectingrods to the crank and rocking-frame are adjustable, to vary the length of stroke. See also page 1393. Stone-polishing machine. Perhaps the most perfectly polished piece of architecture in the world is the Taj, on the west bank of the Jumna, about 3 miles from Agra. The buildings of the Taj are erected on a platform about 20 feet high, and
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
axilla, or in the mouth. See infra; also page 567. Differential thermometer; records differences, say the maximum and minimum during the period of exposure. See Fig. 1650, page 701. Electrical thermometer; an air-thermometer, designed to show the expansion of air when an electric spark is passed through it. Marine thermometer; one in which the lower part of the tube is protected by curved bars or otherwise, to prevent its being readily broken by rough handling. See Fig. 3064, page 1393. Maximum thermometer; one for recording the highest point attained during an observation. See infra; also page 1412. Mercurial thermometer; the common thermometer, in which mercury is the measuring liquid. Metalline thermometer; one depending for its action upon the expansibility of a single metal, or the inequality of expansion of different metals, as Breguet's, See also pyrometer. Minimum thermometer. See infra. Registering thermometer. See self-registering Thermom-Eter.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
nance, Ordnance Bureau. Charles H. Tyler. 1391. Born Virginia. Appointed at Large. 23. Colonel. Commanding brigade, Shelby's Division, Price's Army, Trans-Mississippi Department. （Cullum confounds C. H. Tyler with Brigadier-General R. C. Tyler, killed near West Point, Ga., April 16, 1865.) John C. Booth. 1392. Born Georgia. Appointed Alabama. 24. Captain Artillery (Confederate States Army), February, 1861. Commanding arsenal at Baton Rouge, La. Thomas K. Jackson. 1393. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 25. Major, November 1o, 1861. Chief Commissary-General, A. S. Johnston's staff, Western Department, 1861-‘62. William N. R. Beall. 1398. Born Kentucky. Appointed Arkansas. 30. Brigadier-General, April 11, 1862. Commanding brigade, Army of West; captured at Port Hudson, July 9, 1863. In 1864 and 1865 commanding brigade in Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. William T. Mechling. 1401. Born Pennsylvania. Appoi