Note 1 — CHAP. IX.
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: The electrical substances "lyncurium" and "theamedes" have each been conjectured to be the "tourmaline" which, is found in Ceylon.
2: "Vel cogi fulmina vel impetrari." —PLINY, Nat. Hist. lib. ii. ch. lii.
3: Ibid. There is an interesting paper on the subject of the knowledge of electricity possessed by the ancients, by Dr. FALCONER in the Memoirs of the Manchester Philosophical Society, A.D. 1788, vol. iii. p. 279.