Adriatic , and the Mountains of Carniola, Carmthia, fyc. SIT 
tions, Into one cave, that of St Cantzien, situated in the ro- 
mantic mountain on which Neckle stands, the river Reckka, the 
Timseus of Ovid and Virgil, flows, loses itself, and appears again 
near JDuino. Near it our botanists gathered Leshea complanata , 
Neckera viticulosa ; abundance of Trichostomum fontinaloides 
in fruit, and Galanthus nivalis in full flower. 
On their return to Hundsberg, their acquaintance M. Hohl 
persuaded the travellers to join him in a hasty visit to Venice : 
whither we will at once accompany them, — not for the sake of 
following them through streets, squares, and public edifices, 
which have been so often described by travellers ; but in order 
to introduce their account of the mode of making the glass beads 
which are known all over the world ; and which arte jiere, and 
here alone, fabricated in vast abundance. The first operations, 
indeed, are carried on at Murano, a place adjoining Venice* 
“ The furnace and the glass (white glass) are similar to what 
we see in common glass-houses ; but mixed with the glass is a 
colouring substance, which constitutes the whole secret of the 
manufactory. This is reduced to a state of fusion, when a cer- 
tain quantity is taken up with the blowpipe by a workman, and 
made hollow by the breath ; then another person lays hold of 
the opposite end of the same mass, with a similar instrument, 
and both run with the greatest expedition to two opposite points, 
thereby drawing out the glass into rods, varying in thickness, 
according to the distance, which is often fifty feet, or more *> 
For the performance of this operation, there is a long walk (like 
a rope-walk) close by the glass-furnace. 
“ As soon as the rods are cooled, they are broken into pieces 
of the same length, packed and sorted in chests, and sent to the 
bead manufactory in Venice. If the rods are to be for striped 
beads, a small lump of coloured glass is taken from another ves- 
sel, laid in stripes on the original lump, and then drawn out in 
lengths. We got from this manufactory rods three feet in 
length, and of a finger’s thickness, which had a ball blown at 
one end, and which are used to tie up plants in flower-pots. 
* Sir James E. Smith, in his Continental Tour , says 150 yards , drawing out 
the rod of glass to a line only in thickness, — Ed. 
