1--53.) He had long resided at Caffa, as consul of France; and his erudition is less valuable than his experience.] [Footnote 68: Pliny, Hist.Natur.l.xxxiii.15.

The gold and silver mines of Colchos attracted the Argonauts, (Strab.l.i.p.

77.) The sagacious Chardin could find no gold in mines, rivers, or elsewhere.
Yet a Mingrelian lost his hand and foot for showing some specimens at Constantinople of native gold] [Footnote 69: Herodot.l.ii.c.104, 105, p.

150, 151.Diodor.

Sicul.
l.i.p.33, edit.Wesseling.Dionys.Perieget.689, and Eustath.