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de la Société des Sciences" of Berne. (See "Smithsonian Rep.," 1865–66, p. 383.) He says,

"It seems surprising that the nearest neighbors of the Phœnicians—the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and the Romans—should have manufactured plumbiferous bronzes, while