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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
and used at her feasts, at a period corresponding to our date of 1580 B. C. The origin of the cymbal was evidently heroic; swords and shields being clashed in the warlike dances of the semi-barbarous people of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. In a Persian dance of the times of Cyrus and Cambyses, the movements were performed to the music of the flute, the performers dashing their crescent-shaped shields together, falling on one knee, and rising. The corybantian dance of Crete and Phrygia was a wild, warlike performance, with the same rattling accompaniment. The Pyrrhic dance, as described by Plato, was a frantic exhibition of evolutions and tumblings, representing the modes of dodging and warding off the blows of swords, daggers, and spears, and was performed to the jarring music of clashing weapons. The modern Greeks, who . . . . have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, have emasculated the performance, which threw into the shade anything else on record, including
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
and11923 1856*Cape Ray, Newfoundland, to Cape North, Cape Breton85300 1856Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick1214 1856*Crete to Alexandria, Egypt3501,350 1856Crete to Syra1701,020 1856St. Petersburg to Cronstadt, Russia1010 1856Across Amazon105 1857*Sardinia to Bona, Africa1501,500 1857*Sardinia to Malta5001,000 1857*Cor1866England to Hanover22427 1866Cape Ray, Newfoundland, to Aspee Bay, Cape Breton91200 1866Leghorn, Italy, to Corsica65100 1866Persian Gulf160110 1866*Khios to Crete2001,200 1867South Foreland, England, to La Panne, France4728 1867Malta to Alexandria, Egypt9252,000 1867Havana to Key West, Florida12520 1867Key West to Punta n, Germany40 1873England to Denmark350 1873France to Denmark450 1873Denmark to Sweden12 1873Pernambuco, Brazil, to Para, Brazil1,080 1873Alexandria, Egypt, to Crete390 1873Candia to Zante240 1873Zante to Otranto, Italy190 1873Alexandria, Egypt, to Brindisi, Italy930 1874Lisbon to Madeira633 1874Madeira to St. Vincent, Cap