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don as formerly famous for glafs-houfes, adds im-

mediately afterwerds, Siquitiew thew fronds /66,(e)..
AMMO (3). But ales it is to be obferved, that be-
fore the application of quickfilver in the conlbsiting
of their glaffes (which, I prefume, is of no great an-
tiquity), the refleftion of images by fuch fpetw.'et mutt
have been effeCted by their being befmeared bebixd,
or tinged (bre with fome dark colour, cfpccially
black, which would obltruel the refrattien of the
rays of light (+). Upaa thole bypcdseks (fuppoling
the tindure to be given after fufion) the lama ke-
fore us may be allowed to be capable of aufwering
the purpofe here alligned.
It may further be fuggelled, that plates of thin
kind might be intended to be wrought Into lens's, or
convex glalles, either for burning, or magnifying ob.
(eat placed in their focus. But this defignation can-
not be (imported by proper vouchers from antiquity.
On dse contrary, we are informed, that the ancients
nied eithernserafa (y) of metal, or balls (6) of gists
for

(3) Plot. Nat. HiR. Ida c.16. S. 66.

(a) PISny retentions hind of gla6 ea jet called aifsfswermi
,rrao, aNrorrit et tn./Lai. erafw.
ntriam pre irgi.e dear reams. ho, tuft. %b. asavi.
And thaithe pratjae of Raining glob was known in he erne.
..ests from what he lays concerning the AVidiss.. mentioned
abern.Fir a gnarl thalwaono. vary, atqw
tratflarjsan.
(s) Pancitell. Rer. Mem. p. 288.
(6) "Main glars balls had ININtillla *within thee: Caw
oddiai o(sO omen pite far ea.erfi undo= exesekfiev, vb.
foarsvel. Ho. lib. rare. c. 10. S. ys.
Innis

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