[645] Those who are desirous of seeing the whole account may consult Diodorus, or Banier’s Mythology, [or Keightley’s Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, p. 398, Lond. 1838.] [646] Hygin. Fab. 39, 244, 274. [647] Ad Georg. i. 143. [648] Mythographi, ed. Van Staveren, lib. iii. 2, p. 708. [649] In Mythogr. et in Ovid. Burm. lib. viii. fab. 3. [650] Orig. lib. xix. cap. 19. [651] Chiliad. i. 493. [652] Metamorph. lib. viii. 244. The following line from the Ibis, ver. 500, alludes to the same circumstance: “Ut cui causa necis serra reperta fuit.” [653] See Cadomosto’s Voyage to Africa, in Novi Orbis Navigat. cap. 6. This account is not so ridiculous as that of Olaus Magnus, who says that the saw-fish can with his snout bore through a ship. [There are however many well-authenticated instances of the planks of ships being perforated by the upper jaw of this powerful animal, which it has been supposed occasionally attacks the hulls of vessels in mistake for the whale.] [654] Le Pitture antiche d’Ercolano, vol. i. tav. 34. [655] That cramps or hold-fasts are still formed in the same manner as those seen in the ancient painting found at Herculaneum, particularly when fine inlaid works are made, is proved by the figure in Roubo, l’Art du Menuisier, tab. xi. fig. 4, and xii. fig. 15. [656] L’Antiquité Expliquée, vol. iii. pl. 189. [657] Pallad. De Re Rust. lib. i. tit. 43.--Cicero, in his oration for Cluentius, chap. lxiv., speaks of an ingenious saw, with which a thief sawed out the bottom of a chest. [658] Ausonii Mosella, v. 361. [659] Plin. lib. xxxvi. cap. 6. [660] Vitruv. lib. ii. cap. 8. [661] Plin. lib. xxxvi. cap. 22. [662] See Jannon de S. Laurent’s treatise on the cut stones of the ancients, in Saggi di Dissertazioni nella Acad. Etrusca di Cortona, tom. vi. p. 56. [663] “Saw-mills are useful machines, first introduced in this century; and I do not know any one who can properly be called the real inventor.”--Närrische Weisheit. Frankf. 1683, 12mo, p. 78. [664] In that excellent work, Kunst-und-handwerks Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg, 1779, 8vo, p. 141. [665] This we are told by Abraham Peritsol, the Jew, in Itinera Mundi, printed with the learned annotations of Thomas Hyde, in Ugolini Thesaur. Antiq. Sacr. vol. vii. p. 103. Peritsol wrote before the year 1547. [666] Nic. Cragii Historia regis Christiani III. Hafniæ 1737, fol. p. 293. See also Pontoppidan’s History of Norway. [667] Allgemeine Welthistorie, xxxiii. p. 227.