Morlot.l 112 [November. 



Erie County, New York.* Schoolcraft distinctly points out the beads 

 of Beverly as being of European origin. This is unquestionable, for 

 we know that the native industry of America had never produced 

 glass or enamel. At Copenhagen, I discovered in the archoeological 

 museum (Altnordisk Museum, Director, Mr. Thomsen), ahead (Fig. 

 1), identical both in color and in its intricate composition with Figs. 

 11, 12, and 13 of Plate XXIV, of Schoolcraft, only a little larger, 

 since it measures one and a half inch (English) in length. It 

 bears the number 12,390, and is put down in the catalogue as having 

 been found near Stockholm, in Sweden, and as bought at an auction. 

 A fragment of a second bead (Fig. 2) of the same workmanship, but 

 still larger, exists in the museum at Copenhagen. It bears the num- 

 ber 5211, and is noted as coming from a grave-mound near Skoer- 

 pinge, in the Danish province of Jutland, and as having been bought 

 at the sale by auction of Bishop Mynter's collection in 1839. Un- 

 fortunately these indications furnish no chronological date. 



I bought at Hanover a baldric (Fig. 4), formed of a tube one and 

 a half inch long, of colorless glass, with alternate longitudinal 

 streaks of white and red enamel, quite of the same type as Figs. 13, 

 14, 15, 20, and 21 on Plate XXV of Schoolcraft. My specimen 

 has had a beginning of melting, and must be of the time when the 

 dead were burnt. But in parts of Northern Germany that custom 

 prevailed, along with paganism, until after the tenth century, so this 

 does not teach us much as to the age of these baldrics. 



The beads mentioned at Copenhagen and the baldric of Hanover 

 are so rare, that I have not noticed any others of the sort in the large 

 museums of Lund, in Sweden, Copenhagen and Flensburg, in Den- 

 mark, Schwerin, Hanover, and Mainz, in Glermany. They are not 

 post-Roman. The beads of those times are very different, and of 

 coarser manufacture, nor can I consider them as Roman. In the 

 Museum at Copenhagen, there is one of these glass balls, of very 

 elaborate workmanship. If inch in diameter, called Mlllejiori (in 

 Italy also Fiori di S. Tennara and Vasia I'iori), with a sort of mo- 

 saic or tessellated work, of differently colored enamel inside.f The 

 specimen is put down simply as having been found in Denmark, and 

 I was told that another of the same sort had been found in the south 

 of Sweden. The Danish specimen shows, among the variously 

 colored designs of the mosaic in its inside, one bit exactly of the 



* Second Part of Lead Mines of Missouri, New York, 1819. 

 t Mentioned at page 57 in my paper translated by P. Harry in the Smithsonian 

 Report, 1861, 



