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Show Firo Anions S.ViB Niition.. Aceordin;; to Pliny fire was a I0113 (one unkiiown to some of the ancient Lvptian tribes, and when a eelebrate.l iistionomer made tle'tn acquainted with that element and how to produce it they were will with del ten. The Persians, Phenicians, fireeks and several other nations acknowledge that their ancestors ances-tors were one;) without the comfort a Vvnicii fire bestows; the Chinese confess the same of their progenitors. Pomiiau-ion, Pomiiau-ion, Mola, Plutarch and other ancient writers speak of nations which, at the time when they wrote, knew not the me of lire, or had just levenlly learned it. The inhabitants of the Marian islands, which were di.eovered in bVil, had no idea of fire or its uses. Their a.-iotiis.-luent knew 1:0 bounds when they saw it applied to wood, most of liiem taking it to be some ;ind of an animal which I he tailors had bi ou-.'l't with them and winek ui'ist be, fed on wood tit,. Louis J-5 veblic |