Note 142 — Chapter III · THE WEAPONS OF THE AGE OF WOOD: THE BOOMERANG AND THE SWORD OF WOOD; OF STONE, AND OF WOOD AND STONE COMBINED.
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Our word ‘glass’ derives from glese (gless, glessaria), applied by the old Germans to amber (Tacit. De Mor. Germ. cap. 45). Pliny (xxxvii. chap. 11) also notices glæsum (amber) and Glæsaria Island, by the natives called Austeravia.