Cannibals, Black Cloaks, and Arimaspians, delighted; and manufactured from the leg-bones of eagles and vultures.[1118] The Celts and the islanders of the ocean, our own forefathers, doubtless eschewed the music of vultures’ legs, and contented themselves with the notes of the syrinx.[1119] ----- Footnote 1103: Cf. Aristot. Problem. xix. 23. Footnote 1104: Cf. Philost. Icon. i. 20. p. 794. Footnote 1105: The borders of this lake must at all times have presented a most picturesque appearance, tufted as they were with thickets of the willow and the eleagnos, while a variety of terrestrial and aquatic plants descended its banks and spread themselves far into the water, as the pipe and the common reed, the white nymphæa, the typha, the phleos, the cyperos, the menyanthos, the icmè, and the ipnon. Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 10. 1. Footnote 1106: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 11. 8. Dioscor. i. 94. The κάλαμος συριγγίας is the Saccharum Ravennæ of Sibthorp, Flora Græca, tab. 52, where it is observed, that it is found “in Peloponneso coprosè; ad littora Ponti Euxini propè _Fanar_.” Footnote 1107: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 11. 9. Footnote 1108: The form of the modern pipe is thus described by Chandler, who, after having spoken of the taborer, adds “this was accompanied by a pipe with a reed for the mouth-piece, and below it a circular rim of wood, against which the lips of the player came. His cheeks were much inflated, and the notes so various, shrill, and disagreeable, as to remind me of the composition designed for the ancient Aulos or flute, as was fabled by Minerva.” Travels, &c. i. 49. Footnote 1109: Cf. Gitone, Il Costume, tav. 65. Footnote 1110: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 11. 6, seq. Footnote 1111: Schol. Aristoph. Acharn. 827, seq. Cf. Plat. De Rep. t. vi. p. 386. Footnote 1112: Theoph. Hist. Plant. iv. 3. 3. Poll. iv. 74. Footnote 1113: Poll. iv. 74. Comm. t. iv. p. 720. Ælian. De Nat. Animal. xii. 44. Footnote 1114: Poll. iv. 75. Footnote 1115: Id. iv. 75. Footnote 1116: Athen. iv. 76. Poll. iv. 76. Footnote 1117: Athen. iv. 75. Hesych. v. γιγγρίσι. Footnote 1118: Poll. iv. 76. Footnote 1119: Suid. v. σύριγξ, t. ii. p. 844. a. ----- In earlier times there was a flute appropriated to each mode, or grand division of the national music, but afterwards Pronomos of Thebes,[1120] invented one equally well suited to every mode. Even the manufacture of mouth-pieces, and flute-cases formed a considerable branch of industry. The materials from which the above instruments were chiefly made, were, in addition to those already mentioned, branches of the elder tree and dwarf laurel, bones of asses and kids, ivory and silver.[1121] Organs, and hydraulic organs, the latter invented by the Alexandrian barber Ctesibios, to whom antiquity was likewise indebted for the knowledge of the pump, were reckoned by the ancients among wind-instruments.[1122] ----- Footnote 1120: