[165] Fosbroke’s Ency. of Antiquities, 247-8. [166] Ency. Brit., Ency. Amer. [167] P. 6. [168] Oliver on Masonry, 168. [169] P. 249. [170] Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ, p. 943, (Bohn’s edit.) [171] Maffei, vol. ii. pl. 20, p. 42. [172] “The first author of it (_general shout_) was Pan, Bacchus’s Lieutenant-General in his Indian expedition, where, being encompassed in a valley with an army of enemies, far superior to them in number, he advised the god to order his men in the night to give a general shout, which so surprised the opposite army that they immediately fled from their camp; whence it came to pass that all sudden fears impressed upon men’s spirits without any just reason were called by the Greeks and Romans pannick terrors.”--_Potter’s Greece_, iii. c. 8. [173] Maffei, vol. ii. pl. 21, p. 45. [174] Archæologia, xxi. 127. [175] Fosbroke’s Encyclopædia of Antiquities, p. 246. [176] A Lapidary, or the History of Pretious Stones, with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious stones, (1652,) p. 51. [177] This name occurs among the ancients, because it is the mother-dwelling or the _palace_, as it was said, in which the carbuncle or true ruby is produced and dwells.--_Kobell_, 274. [178] Lib. viii. _de Hist. Animal_. [179] Kobell. [180] Nicols’ Lapidary, 56-7. [181] Paus. viii, c. 14. [182] The Imperial Treasury at Vienna possesses an emerald valued at £50,000. [183] Nicols’ Lapidary, 85. [184] And see Kobell’s Mineral Kingdom, 274. [185] P. 86. [186] Nicols. [187] Nicols, 130. [188] 1569, p. 51. [189] Ib. 164. [190] _As You Like It_, Act 2, Sc. 1. [191] First Book of Notable Things, 4to, vol. i. [192] P. 158. [193] This subject may allow us to mention what is called the “mad-stone,” a supposed antidote to hydrophobia. The following is from the New-York Tribune newspaper for July 4, 1854: