FOOTNOTES

[38] One may see in Homer’s Odyssey, book iii. v. 432, the process

employed for gilding in this manner, the horns of the cow brought by

Nestor as an offering to Minerva.

[39] Epist. 115.

[40] La Sicilia inventrice. Palermo, 1704, 4to.

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