. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. ile our own dear andenviable country is exempt from the dangers and incon-veniencies with which the climates are rife, of which thoseluxuries are natives. GLASS. Plinit gives the following account of the discovery ofthe art of making Glass :— Some merchants conveying nitre, stopped to refresh themselves near a river which issues from Mount Carmel. Being unable to find stones upon which to rest their kettles, they made use of some pieces of nitre for that* purpose: the fire gradually me
. The young lady's library of useful and entertaining knowledge : intended as a holiday or birth-day present. ile our own dear andenviable country is exempt from the dangers and incon-veniencies with which the climates are rife, of which thoseluxuries are natives. GLASS. Plinit gives the following account of the discovery ofthe art of making Glass :— Some merchants conveying nitre, stopped to refresh themselves near a river which issues from Mount Carmel. Being unable to find stones upon which to rest their kettles, they made use of some pieces of nitre for that* purpose: the fire gradually melted the nitre, which mingled with the sand : this mixture produced a trans- parent matter, which was no other than glass. By some, it is said that Glass was invented in Englandby a monk named Benalt, in the year 894 j and that itwas used in private houses in 1180. Lord Kaimes is ofopinion, that the art of making glass was imported fromFrance into England in the year 674, for the use of monas-teries J and that glass windows in private houses were veryuncommon even in the twelfth century. 284 NOVEMBER, Now the eleventh, but in the ancient Roman calendarthe ninth month in the year, was so called from the Latinword Novevi, nine. The Saxons denominated it Wint-m/rnat, (Wind-month),because of the blustering winds which generally prevailthroughout the month. They also called it Blot-monat,(Blood-month,) as being the month when they killedgreat numbers of cattle for winter store and for their sacri-fices. The Protestant church dedicates the first of November tothe commemoration of all those saints and martj-rs, inhonour of whom, individually, no particular day has beeuassigned. This festival is called All Saintx Da»/. NOVEMBER. 285 The fifth of November is well known to all our juvenilereaders as the anniversary of the terrible Gunpowder Plot;on which day, in order to eommemorate properly this hor-ribly intended burning, they doubtless rejoice in their veryhearts, since
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