Dossie, in his _Handmaid of the Arts_ (2nd ed., 1764), declares that there was at the time he was writing a great demand in China for ‘the brown Venetian glass with gold-spangles, called the Philosopher’s Stone.’ Footnote 280: The making of glass is still an important industry at Poshan, where the native quartz-rock is melted with saltpetre. Window-glass, bottles, and lanterns are made, and the clear glass is exported in the form of long rods tied up in bundles. Williamson’s _Journeys in North China_, vol. i. p. 131. Footnote 281: See, for confirmation of this, the previous note. In China to-day the word _liao_ has replaced the older names for glass. For the better kinds of work the Shantung glass is worked up at Pekin—this is the _Ching liao_. Bushell, _Chinese Art_, vol. ii. p. 63. Footnote 282: I have to thank Professor Church for the results of an analysis of a snuff-bottle ‘like nearly white jade or milk-quartz faintly greenish.’ It contained lead-oxide, 48·3 per cent.; potash, 8·8 per cent.; soda, 1·1 per cent.; and silica, 41·5 per cent. We have here a remarkably pure potash-lead glass, for only 0·2 per cent, of alumina and iron oxide was found. The specific gravity of this specimen was 3·8; that of another bottle of clear strong green glass was 3·7. Footnote 283: In some of the Imperial tombs of the sixth and seventh centuries of our era glass jars have been found. One of these is described as of white glass ornamented with round knobs. In the grave of the Emperor Nintoku (fifth century) were found fragments of blue and white glass. It is very unlikely that any of this glass was made in Japan. Footnote 284: Now in the British Museum; it is referred to on p. 152. Transcriber's Notes Dashes used to represent duplicated entries in the Index have been replaced by the text they represent. Some presumed printer's errors have been corrected. In particular, punctuation has been normalized. Spelling in the Index has been corrected to match the spelling in the main text. Additional corrections are listed below with the text as printed (top) and the corrected text (bottom): might have have been might have been (p. 255) of that of European origin three is no need to speak of that of European origin there is no need to speak (p. 342) Lorraine was was not yet Lorraine was not yet (Footnote 172) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Glass, by Edward Dillon