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 great chiefs that they could handle the tools of the smith.

Longfellow declares that —

In speaking of Basil the blacksmith, ' Who was a mighty man in the village, and honoured of all men; '

he intimates that even in the New World the traditional attributes of the grimy occupation had found a congenial home. There is something very pleasant in reading of the home-like scenes in 'Evangeline,' where, in the far-off Acadie, the children of the village, hurrying away to Basil's forge,

There appears to be every reason to believe that the mysteries of Druidism, and those secret metallurgical rites anciently practised in the East, and known as the 'Samothracian Mysteries,' were very closely allied. From a comparison of the texts of Strabo, Diodorus of Sicily, Herodotus, Clement of Alexandria, and others, who speak of the Dactyli, Cabiri, Curetes, Corybantes, and Telchines, as people who came from the far East to Phrygia and Crete, where they introduced the working of bronze