Note 66 — FIRST SECTION.
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Richard Payne Knight, An account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples: in two Letters,—one from Sir William Hamilton to Sir Joseph Banks, and the other from a Person residing at Isernia. To which is added a discourse on the worship of Priapus and its connexion with the mystic Theology of the Ancients. London (published by T. Spilsburg) 1786. pp. 195. 4to., with 18 Copperplates. Comp. with regard to this rare work C. A. Böttiger in Amalthea, vol. 3. pp. 408-418., and Choulant in Hecker’s Annalen, Vol. XXXIII (1836). pp. 414-418.—J. A. Dulaure, “Les Divinités génératrices, ou sur le Culte du Phallus,” (Divinities of generation, or on Phallic worship). Paris 1805., a work which to our regret we have been unable to make use of.