A London encyclopaedia, or universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics : comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge : illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams (1829)
Curtis, Thomas, fl. 1820 · London : Thomas Tegg · leaf 332
to showthat this fable is an allegorical representation olsome real history, particularly of the philo-sophers stone. Others have explained it by theprofit of the wool trade to Colchis, or the goldwhich they commonly gathered there with fleecesin the rivers. See Argonauts. Fleece, Golden, Order of… … as duke of Burgundy, is grand master of theorder; the number of knights is fixed to thirty-one. It is said to have been instituted on occa-sion of an immense profit which that princemade by wool; though others will have a che-mical mystery couched under it, as that famousone of the ancients, which…
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