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mining : one forms the third appendix to his excellent little work en- 

 titled Ja^otes on the Floridian Peninsula; the other is published in the 

 Historical Magazine^ vol. x (18GG), p. 137, under the title "Early Spanish 

 Mining in Northern Georgia." Additional information on the subject 

 is to be found in Colonel Jones's work, to which I have referred on the 

 preceding page. 



OJf A POLTCHROME BEAD FROM FLORIDA. 



By Prof. S. S. Haldeman. 



This bead (Fig. 1), now in the United States National Museum, is of 

 a kind known to archseology as the star pattern, because the white be- 

 tween the exterior blue and inner red forms a terminal star or zigzag 

 band when the original cylinder is ground into an oval so as to expose 

 the interior colors. Examples occur of various sizes from about two 

 inches in length and one and a half in diameter to about one-fourth 

 of an inch in size, the latter being spheric or oblate and as distinctly 



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colored as the large ones. There is a specimen about an inch and a 

 half long in the ancient Egyptian department of the Louvre (hor- 

 izontal case Q), and, according to my recollection, a specimen from 

 Dakkeh (Nubia) in the British Museum (horizontal case E, No. 6294: 

 d) is larger. The Slade collection in the British Museum contains 

 two of the same character.* A large one found in England with 

 Samian cups and Eoman buckles is figured in the Proceed. Brit. Arch- 

 seol. Assoc. 1848, vol. 3, p. 328; Eaussettt figures an example from 

 Gilton, England ; and another is described in the Archseologia (1851, 

 vol. 35, pi. 5, fig. 10), the locality unknown, but Mr. B. Nightingale says 

 examples occur along the Ehine and are to be seen in the museums of 

 Mannheim and Baden. Mr. Morlot, of Lausanne, gives colored figures 

 of two examples in the museum at Copenhagen.^ That of fig. 1 was said 

 to have been found near Stockholm, the other in an antique grave in 



* Catalogue of the collection of glass formed by Felix Slade, esq., F. S. A., with notes 

 on the history of glass-making, by Alexander Nesbitt, esq., 1871, p. 10, fig. 21. 

 t Inventorium Sepulchralo, 1866, pi. 5, fig. 2. 

 X Proceed. Am. Philosoph. Soc, Nov., 18G2, p. 111-114 and 119-120. 



