Note 10 — [From Bentley's Miscellany.] THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE GLASS-HOUSE.
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This story is attested, with slight variations, by several writers, Petronius, Dion Cassius, Pliny, and Isidorus. Pliny says that the populace, imagining that their interests would be injured by the discovery, destroyed the workhouse, tools, and dwelling of the artificer.