Note 509 — Chapter X · MYTHOLOGY (continued).
Reading edition
‘Mémoires conc. l’Hist., &c., des Chinois,’ vol. iv. p. 457. Compare the story of the magnetic (?) horseman in ‘Thousand and One N.’ vol. iii. p. 119, with the old Chinese mention of magnetic cars with a movable-armed pointing figure, A. v. Humboldt, ‘Asie Centrale,’ vol. i. p. xl.; Goguet, vol. iii. p. 284. (The loadstone mountain has its power from a turning brazen horseman on the top.)