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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
I beg to exhibit three beads belonging to a class which has excited considerable interest among archaeologists both in this country and in America, and of which the origin appears to be somewhat uncertain.
page 299 note a The woodcut lias been lent by Mr. Franks.
page 301 note a [Gibson's] Camden, p. 684. “These beads are cut from a similar rod of glass to that in the British Museum, from the collection of Sir William Hamilton, and found in Italy, I believe at Naples; and which evidently demonstrates the spot where was situated this glass manufactory, which by traffic was circulated among all the northern people, who with much avidity, like the islanders of the South Seas, received such baubles to please their fancy in dress, or to appropriate to some superstitious charms, which prevailed so much among them, and to favour which the dexterous Romans had invented every device of this kind whicli could possibly serve their traffic. Beads exactly similar are now manufactured in England for the African slave-trade, one of which, before mentioned, had been conveyed among a cluster of beads, in a grave which the author was opening at Ash, by a very worthy friend, who was desirous, for the sake of the jest, to surprise him with the discovery of the celebrated glain nidr.”
page 304 note a Vol. i. pi. xxiv. figs. 7–11. As represented, the colours seem to be transposed, the red forming the outer coating. This does not, however, agree with the end views of the same beads, and it is probable, therefore, that the lithographer has made a mistake. M. Morlot has corrected this in the work referred to in the text.
page 304 note b He refers to second part of Lead Mines of Missouri, New York, 1819.
page 304 note c Vol. v. p. 110.
page 304 note d See some remarks on this subject in Proceedings Soc. Ant. 2d S. ii. 334.
page 305 note a The glass-works of Venice claim to have taken their origin in the seventh century, and were, at any rate, in full activity in the thirteenth, and they still supply the bulk of the beads exported to uncivilised countries.
page 306 note a Tome i. p. 59.
page 308 note a Smithsonian Report, 1877. On a Polychrome Bead from Florida, by S. S. Haldeman; where is engraved another, 1⅜ in. long, from Santa Barbara, California.
page 308 note b Journal des Museum Godefroy, Heft 4, p. 52, and pi. 2, figs. 8, 9. 1873.