3/40 The bombyx of the Isle of Ceos, as described by Pliny, (Hist.Natur.xi.26, 27, with the notes of the two learned Jesuits, Hardouin and Brotier,) may be illustrated by a similar species in China, (Memoires sur les Chinois, tom.ii.p. 575--598;) but our silk-worm, as well as the white mulberry-tree, were unknown to Theophrastus and Pliny.] [Footnote 62: Georgic.ii.121.Serica quando venerint in usum planissime non acio: suspicor tamen in Julii Caesaris aevo, nam ante non invenio, says Justus Lipsius, (Excursus i. 32.) See Dion Cassius, (l.xliii.p.358, edit. |