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dead, is situated in an uncultivated part of the town, and several trees were growing upon it, when the excavation was made, some of which were judged to be upwards of two feet in diameter. One of the pieces examined, (and they are all alike), is in the form of a large barrel-shaped bead, consisting of a tube, of transparent green glass, covered with an opaque coarse red enamel; its length nine tenths of an inch, its greatest width six and a half tenths, and the bore of the tube two tenths of an inch. Near the circle of the bore of this tube, is an aperture, of the size of a large needle, perforating the tube from one end to the other. The enamel which covers the tube of transparent glass, appears to have been ornamented with paintings or figures resembling a spindle, or two inverted sections of a circle. But they are now hardly perceptible, as the head appears to have been considerably worn. But the circumstance must indicative of art, in the making of this bead, is a species of enamelling, which has been performed both on the external & internal surfaces of the tube previous to its being covered by the coarse red enamel. This second enamel is white; and as the external surface of the tube was not smooth, but in parallel veins; exhibits the appearance of a white vine between the green tube and red enamel. This enamelling seems to have been done, not by melting in any vitrious? composition, as is practised at