[15] Dagley’s Gems, Preface.
[16] Hottzappfel’s Turning and Mechanical Manipulations, p. 1362.
[17] Chambers’s Repository, (Curiosities of Burial.)
[18] Gemma Antiche, iii. 182.
[19] Genesis, ch. xli. et seq.
[20] Goldsmith.
[21] Caylus, vol. iii. p. 157.
[22] And see Layard’s Nineveh, 339, 340.
[23] Montfaucon.
[24] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xx., N. S., 55.