[1303] A figure and description of the _Hakenbüchse_, the _bock_, the
wheels and key, may be found in Daniel Histoire de la Milice Francaise.
Amst. 1724, 2 vols. 4to, i. p. 334. At Dresden there is still preserved
an old _Büchse_, on which, instead of a lock, there is a cock with
a flint-stone placed opposite to the touch-hole, and this flint was
rubbed with a file till it emitted a spark.
[1304] [The musquet or musket is said to be a Spanish invention, and
to have been first used at the battle of Pavia. They were so long and
heavy as to require the support of a rest. In the time of Elizabeth
and long after, the English musqueteer was very different from one at
the present day. In addition to the musquet itself, he had to carry a
flask of coarse powder for loading, and a touch-box of fine powder for
priming; the bullets were contained in a leathern bag, the strings of
which he had to draw to get at them; while in his hand was his burning
match and musquet-rest.]
[1305] De Civitate Noribergensi Commentat. 1697, 4to, p. 150: In
chronico quodam MS. legitur: the fire-locks belonging to the shooting
tubes were first found out at Nuremberg in 1517.
[1306] Raetia das ist Beschreibung, &c. Zurich, 1616, fol. p. 152.
[1307] Appenzeller Chronik. St. Gall, 1740, 8vo, p. 194.
[1308] This kind of stone is not everywhere used for this purpose. In
the Tyrol, for example, the hardest ferruginous granite, which consists
of corneous, partly irregular and partly polyedral, pieces, is employed
as flints, which therefore are called Tyrol flints. In other places,
jasper, such as that found in great abundance in Turkey, is formed by
grinding, and used in the same manner.
[1309] Of this deity an account may be found in Schedii Syntagma de
Diis Germanis. Halæ, 1728, 8vo, p. 726.
[1310] Esper Nachricht von neu entdeckten Zoolithen, Nurnberg, 1774,
fol. Mr. Esper says, those fire-stones only which contain fossils or
petrifactions are called _flins_, flint; and it is possible that the
singular formation may be the cause why they have retained longest the
name of the pagan deity.
[1311] Figures of such instruments may be found in the fifth volume of
the Archæologia Britannica.
[1312] Philosophical Transactions, No. 474.
[1313] A polished plate a foot square is sold at the Vienna porcelain
manufactory for five hundred florins.
[1314] Chemnitz regrets that the largest and most beautiful pieces are
broken in many thousand fragments, and afterwards sold for a trifle as
gun-flints.--Berliner Beschäftigungen, p. 213.
[1315] Hippolytus Angelerius, in a work entitled De Antiquitate
Atestinæ, p. 14, in vol. vii. of Thes. Antiquit. Italiæ.