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.