c/ the Ancients rcfpecling Glafs, 1 1 1 



found in a window there, and it amounted to 

 eighteen inches long, by about fourteen wide. 



The* infpired writer of the Apo- 

 A. p. 94. calypfe, defcribin» the brie-htnefs of 



St. John the • r ' o o 



Evangelift. One of the appearances in his vifion, 

 calls it "a fca of glafs, like unto 

 chrydal." 



Jofephusf the Jewifh hiftorian fays, 

 A. D. 83. jj-j^j tc ^^(.gj. ji^g monument of Memnon, 



Jolcphus. . ' 



which lies on the river Belius in Ga- 

 lilee, there is a place an hundred cubits in 

 extent, worthy admiration. It is (adds this 

 writer) round and hollow ; and although it be ejc- 

 haufted by the numerous (hips that touch there, 

 it is foon filled again 3 the winds as it were, by 

 defign, tearing up the white fand from other 

 places, and bringing it hither, and the mine 

 itfelf, has the power of changing the fand that is 

 thus carried into it, into glafs ; and what feems 

 to me more extraordinary, the glafs that over- 



* GaTvacc-a t/«^l^>! 6//.o»« ■/.^•j^ccKKu. Apoc, C. 4. V. 6. 



fi^P^ti 9r*»Ta7r«i7i» oXtyo?, wag » to Meo.j'cw; ^nijw.iioi' lalu, eyfiv 

 lyyxii civrou ToTron ty.ciTonroi Wijp^y,)' SajW-atTof a|»o», x.vy.XorcP'f,(; uif 

 yx^ ecu y.ui koi?vo;, uvxatoucri ae t»i» y«Aivr,» ■^ocu.u.oy, »)» ora* 

 ty.y.iius'^ WcMa wAoia w^scrp^ovra, , waAiV avawXrjtfovTat to ^upkii 

 tcuTccav^otrur f/.E/ oicrTrtp ivirriott; Tore rov avi^uv ei? txuTa t^jh i^uim 

 uiyr,]) -vfajap.ov, tou tfe |ixiT«Mot; 1:0.^0,1 vj^iuq fji.irci^c!,?\?,oyro(; e«f 

 i^aTiov, ^Xj/.a.(7i0Ti^ov toi/to f*o» ooxeji", to T'/)» vnep^v^iitrcif va^otj 

 5r«>.i» 7J>er-?it -J/ «//.!/.{/ II iix:%izr. Jofph. L. II. C. lO. 



flows 



