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EGYPTIAN GLASS.
(probably manganese,) was found in Egypt, without which, the valuable coloured glass could not be made. It is also related that the Emperor Hadrian received as a present from an Egyptian priest, several Glass cups, sparkling with every colour; these, as costly wares, were ordered to be used only on grand festivals.
We have incidentally mentioned the discovery of Glass at Pompeii. Glass vessel have, also been found among the ruins of Herculaneum; and it appears that Glass was used for admitting light to dwellings in Pompeii,* although other houses had window-frames filled with a kind of transparent talc.†
In the reign of Tiberius, a Roman artist had, according to Pliny, his house demolished—according to other writers, he was beheaded—for making Glass malleable. The Pompeian and Roman architects are known to have used Glass in their Mosaic decorations; of these, remains have been found among the ruins of the villa of the Emperor Tiberius, in the island of Capri. Several specimens, also, are yet to be seen in Westminster Abbey, cemented into the sides of the tomb of Edward the Confessor. They are flat pieces, about a quarter of an inch thick; the under layer has a reddish, granulated appearance,

* Mr. Auldjo, of Noel House, Kensington, who resided several years at Naples, states, that he has been Glass in the window-=frames of some of the houses of Pompeii. Mr. Roach Smith has a specimen of ancient flat Glass; such as he believes to have been used by the Romans, or their predecessors, for windows.
† Glass, melted and cast into plates, is said by St. Jerome to have been used in his time, (A.D. 422,) to form windows. About a century later, Paulus Silentiarius mentions the windows of the church of St. Sophia, at Constantinople, which were covered with glass; and from this period, frequent allusions to the similar use of glass are met with in various authors,—Treatise on Glass: Cabinet Cyclopædia.