12-31-2006, 12:48 AM
Quote:Hi Jim
I know only from Plinius the Elder that some iron mines were regenerated when they had been abandoned for some time
Diodorus, book V chapter 2:
Quote:They make weapons and javelins in an admirable manner; for they bury plates of iron under ground until the rust consumes the weaker part, and so the rest becomes more strong and firm. Of this they make their swords and other warlike weapons; and with these arms, thus tempered, they so cut through every thing in their way that neither shield, helmet, nor bone can withstand them.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
