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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 337 — COLOURED GLASS.—ARTIFICIAL GEMS.

William Johnston translation

That such was the method in use, an attentive examination of old specimens affords sufficient evidence. One piece that I possess exhibits large bubbles in the midst of the red stratum; another consists of a stratum of red inclosed between two colourless strata: both circumstances plainly point out the only means by which such an arrangement could be produced.

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