Note 4 — WONDERS OF THE ALPHABET.

This massive collar or bracelet, here reproduced from Mr. George Stephens’s “Old Northern Runic Monuments,” was made of twisted gold, and was found at Buzeo, in Wallachia, upon the site, probably, of a heathen temple. The runic characters inscribed upon it mean “dedicated to the temple of the Goths.” This torque was worth nearly twenty thousand dollars.