112 Dr. Falconer on the KnowkdgS 



flows from this place, becomes again common 

 fand." It is evident, that Jofephus here, by the 

 word ''«^<'?» means only the fand fit for the making 

 of glafs. 



In the time of Martial, glafs was not 

 A. D. 84. Qj^jy brought to great perfection, and in 

 common ufe* for drinking vefifels, but 

 was alfo employed (as it feems) forf bottles in 

 which wine was kept, and likewife for J pots to 

 hold flowers. 



A few words on the antiquity of the term 

 (glafs) may not in this place be improper. 

 Tacitus and Pliny § inform us, that amber was 

 called among the ancient Gauls and Germans, 

 by the name of gUJum or glejfum ; and from the 

 fimilarity which glafs bore to amber in point of 



* Nos blbiinus vitro, tu myrrha Pontlce, quare ? 

 Prodat perfpicuus ne duo vina calix. 



Martial Epig. L. IV. Ep. 86. 



f Condantur parco fufca falerna vitro. L. II. Epig. 40. 



X Condita fic puro numerantur lilia vitro. 



L. II. Epig. 22. 



§ Succinum quod ipfi gleflum vocant inter vada atque 

 ipfo in litore legunt. Taciti German. C. 45. 



Certum eft gigni in infulis feptentrionalis Oceani & a 

 Germanis appellari gleffum itaque &, a noftris unam infula- 

 rum ob id gleflariam appellatam. 



Plin. Hift. Nat. Lib. XXXVII. Cp. 3; 



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