[113] PAGE 47, LINE 30. Page 47, line 36. _quare & muscos ... in frustulis quibusdam comprehensos retinet._--The occurrence of flies in amber was well known to the ancients. Pliny thus speaks of it, book xxxvii., chap. iii. (p. 608 of P. Holland's translation of 1601): "That it doth destill and drop at the first very clear and liquid, it is evident by this argument, for that a man may see diverse things within, to wit, Pismires, Gnats, and Lizards, which no doubt were entangled and stucke within it when it was greene and fresh, and so remain enclosed within as it waxed harder." A locust embedded in amber is mentioned in the _Musæum Septalianum_ of Terzagus (Dertonæ, 1664). Martial's epigram (_Epigrammata_, liber vi., 15) is well known: Dum Phaethontea formica vagatur in umbra Implicuit tenuem succina gutta feram. See also Hermann (Daniel), _De rana et lacerta Succino Borussiaco insitis_ {37} (Cracov., 1580; a later edition, Rigæ, 1600). The great work on _inclusa_ in amber is, however, that of Nathaniel Sendel. See the previous note. Sir Thomas Browne must not be forgotten in this connexion. The _Pseudodoxia_ (p. 64 of the second edition, 1650) says: "Lastly, we will not omit what Bellabonus upon his own experiment writ from Dantzich unto Mellichius, as he hath left recorded in his chapter _De Succino_, that the bodies of Flies, Pismires and the like, which are said oft times to be included in Amber, are not reall but representative, as he discovered in severall pieces broke for that purpose. If so, the two famous Epigrams hereof in Martiall are but poeticall, the Pismire of Brassavolus Imaginary, and Cardans Mousoleum for a flie, a meer phancy. But hereunto we know not how to assent, as having met with some whose reals made good their representments." See also Pope's _Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot_, line 169. [114] PAGE 47, LINE 34. Page 47, line 40. _Commemorant antiqui quod succinum festucas et paleas attrahit._--Pliny (book xxxvii., chap. ii., p. 606 of the English edition of 1601) thus narrates the point: "Hee [_Niceas_] writeth also, that in Aegypt it [amber] is engendered.... Semblably in Syria, the women (saith hee) make wherves of it for their spindles, where they use to call it Harpax, because it will catch up leaves, straws, and fringes hanging to cloaths." p. 608. "To come to the properties that Amber hath, If it bee well rubbed and chaufed betweene the fingers, the potentiall facultie that lieth within, is set on work, and brought into actual operation, whereby you shall see it to drawe chaffe strawes, drie leaves, yea, and thin rinds of the Linden or Tillet tree, after the same sort as loadstone draweth yron." [115] PAGE 47, LINE 36. Page 47, line 42. _Quod etiam facit Gagates lapis._--The properties of Jet were well known to the mediæval writers. _Julius Solinus_ writes in _De Mirabilibus_, chapter xxxiv., _Of Britaine_ (English version of 1587 by A. Golding):