Note 141 The president Goguet (Oirgine des Loix, etc., tom. ii. p. 239) is of opinion that the stupendous pieces of emerald, the statues and columns which antiquity has placed in Egypt, at Gades, at Constantinople, were in reality artificial composions of coloured glass. The famous emerald dish which is shown at Genoa is supposed to countenance the suspicion.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 31