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necessary to concede a knowledge of optics some millennia before the incarceration of this lens at Nineveh. And that is a major part of our whole tenet. In The Microscope and its Revelations, Carpenter presents two drawings of the lens, but he argues that it is impossible to accept that optical lenses have ever been made by the ancients. He says the object must have been an ornament. Brewster says it was a true optical lens. Then we are right back where we started with the little worked meteorite. If either, or both, of these shameless trinkets are indigenous to our planet we must, perforce, accept a civilization with a knowledge of optics, predating all presently recorded history. ED: The following has no obvious reference or necessary position. Mirror Silvering of Crystal (Rock or Force-Made Crystal) Unknown to Atruscans. It was Crystal & It was a Lens, Atruscans used them to Make fine Gold & Silver earrings & Gold wire inlays. Also were used to Make fire for the ‘Smiths. This lens is just as much, in its small way, a relic of the first wave of civilization (if not from space) as is the Great Pyramid which embodies more astronomy and mathematics than was possessed by those people to whom its construction is attributed. Wilkins, in Secret Cities of South America, reports the finding of optical lenses and mirrors in a submerged city on the coast of Equador, and others in archaic ruins of Central America. These appear to be pre-Incan and pre-Andean. The London Times of February 1, 1888, has reported the finding of a roundish, or ovate, object of iron which was found in a garden at Brixton, after a violent thunderstorm on August 7, 1887. It is described as an oblate spheroid about two inches across its major axis. An oblate spheroid is the shape generated by an ellipse if rotated about its minor axis, and a prolate spheroid is similarly generated by rotation about its major axis. A football is shaped something like a prolate spheroid, while a flattish pumpkin or tomato is close to being an oblate spheroid. The paper discussed this object at length, while also describing an “iron cannon ball," found in a manure heap after a thunderstorm. Both items seem to be too shapely, or symmetrical, to have been created without the aid of intelligence. There may be some significance in the fact of their all being small, a couple of inches or so in diameter. A few days ago, a powerful blast was made in the rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, a few rods south of Reverend Mr. Hall's meeting house. The blast threw out an immense mass of rock, some of the pieces weighing several tons, and scattered small fragments in all directions. Among them was picked up a metallic vessel in two parts, rent asunder by the explosion. On putting the two parts together, it formed a bell-shaped vessel, four and one-half inches high, six and one-half inches at the base and two and one-half inches at the top, and about an eighth of an inch in thickness. The body of this vessel resembles zinc in color, or a composition material, in which there is a considerable portion of silver. On the sides there are six figures of a flower or bouquet, beautifully inlaid with pure silver, and 68 Lens was Atruscan, MAN SPEAKS FROM GENERAL CONCENSUS. These Were Muanian in Make The Scientific American, 1851-52, has the following to say, which is contributory to our theme: