VOL. XIV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TEANSACTIONS. 3? 



The third sort is still far more beautiful than any of the rest, being adorned 

 with greyhounds very well moulded, and in full pursuit of stags and hinds, 

 and the wild boar; with the same inscription as in the others. There were 

 several other broken inscriptions; and one on the inside of the bottom of 

 a plain dish or platter. 



As to the glass, there was but a very small fragment of it, so that I can 

 scarcely guess the figure, but I think it a flute glass, made like a tunnel or 

 spire inverted; and it is remarkable that it hath been as thick as a barley corn. 



The urns were of a leaden colour, inclining to black ; one had been large, 

 2 inches thick in the side of the pot, but how large I know not, for there was 

 a sherd only brought to me like half a shield: I have now the top also, 

 being in diameter from outside to outside 7 inches, of which the roll is 

 1 inches, and the mouth 3 inches. The neck still straiter, and only one-third 

 of an inch thick. And many such are found at this town, some of which have 

 ears or handles as thick as my arm-wrist, and their heads and mouths much of 

 this size, but thicker and stronger, into which I could not thrust my hand. 

 But the other was almost entire, though a very small one ; in depth 8 J- inches, 

 the diameter of it 6^ inches, or in circumference IQ^-; in the mouth almost 3^; 

 in the neck somewhat more than 24- diameter: the bottom near the size of the 

 top, excepting the ring; and the body the fifth part of an inch in thickness: 

 but thicker somewhat at the top and the bottom. 



Of the sandals, some were for men, some for women, and some for children; 

 all shaped by their feet, spreading more to the outside than to the inner ; some 

 were very large, and some very crooked. The leather was fresh of which they 

 were made, but very tender when it came to be spread on a last. Each con- 

 sisted of three principal parts ; an upper leather, or rather heel piece, with 2 

 tabs or latchets on each side; an inner sole 11^ inches long, 3^ broad, consist- 

 ing of 3 or 4 soles stitched together with leather thongs, and an outer sole of 

 2, stuck full of nails with little round heads, so decayed and rotten that I could 

 scarcely discern them to be iron, plated on the inside ; and fixed to the upper 

 leather (3 fold in the heel piece) between them, and sowed with leather, or 

 rather tacked, which the iron nails help to defend. Yet I think some women's, 

 of the better sort, had no nails at all. And of these there is one well 

 worthy observation, of leather like Spanish, and curious workmanship, being 

 exactly stitched down round about the fore piece 2-^ inches long with a 

 pretty label, of the same piece, hanging from it, for fashion sake surely ; since 

 it is too slender to be of any use. As small in the string as the 1 5th part 

 of an inch ; the tongue at the end half an inch broad, one inch long between 

 the two flourishes, which is the length of the small string, 8 parts in 10 of an 



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