[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]