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dotus called Britain the Cassiterides, or Tin Islands, 450 B. C. Calamine was known in early times, and the Temple utensils may have been really brass. The brazen bull was cast by Perillus of Athens, for Phalaris of Agrigentum, 570 B. C. It was made hollow, to receive victims to be roasted to death. The throat was contrived to make their groans simulate the bellowing of the animal. The artist was made to furnish the first victim, and the king eventually tried the experiment in person, 549 B. C. The helmet of Psammitichus the Powerful was of brass, and from it he poured the libation in the Tem- ple of Vulcan, which condemned him to temporary isolation in the marshes of the Delta, but ended in his making the acquaintance of some Ionian and Carian freebooters, who assisted in placing him on the throne of Egypt, 650 B. C. Brass was known to the Greeks as orichalcum or mountain-bronze. Afterwards corrupted by the Romans into aurichalcum, from a supposition, derived from its co