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 ornament among the early Saxons. All thee cups are of glas; they are o formed that it is evident they could not tand upright, o that it was neceary to empty them at a draught. This characteritic of the old drinking-cups is aid to have given rie to the modern name of tumblers.

That thee glas drinking-cups—or, if we like to ue the term, thee glaes were implements peculiar to the Germanic race to which the Saxons belonged, and not derived from the Romans, we have corroborative evidence in dicoveries made on the Continent. I will only take

examples from ome graves of the ame early period, dicovered at Selzen, in Rhenith Hee, an intereting account of which was publihed at Maintz, in 1848, by the brothers W. and L. Lindenchmit. In thee graves everal drinking-cups were found, alo of glas, and reembling in character the two middle figures in our cut, No. 1. Three pecimens are given in the cut No. 2.In our cut, No. 5, (ee page 8), is one of the cup-haped glaes, alo found in thee Heian graves, which cloely reembles that given in the cut No. 1. None of the cups of the champagne-glas form, like thoe found in England, occur in thee foreign barrows.

We hall find alo that the pottery of the later Anglo-Saxon period preented a mixture of forms, partly derived from thoe which had belonged to the Saxon race in their primitive condition, and partly copied or imitated from thoe of the Romans. In fact, in our Anglo-Saxon graves we find much purely Roman pottery intermingled with earthen veels of Saxon manufacture; and this is alo the cae in Germany. As Roman forms are known to every one, we need only give the pure Saxon types. Our cut, No. 3, repreents five examples, and will give a ufficient notion of their general character. The two to the left were taken, with a large