106 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY inches diameter. The stems of such glasses are generally plain, and it will be noted that the rim of the base in these specimens is reinforced. Parts of some of the stemmed glasses had very solid bases of a clumsy rounded pattern. These were probably used in taverns being proportioned for such rough usage perhaps for hammering on the table while drinking loyal toasts. Glass bottles' were accompaniments of all camp existence. There were many small green-glass medicine phials in use. Their material is sometimes clear, but usually clouded glass; These little phials are about % inch, either round or square, and nearly 3 inches in height. There were also case-bottles made of white flint glass, having ground glass-stoppers, and in the Fort and elsewhere, fragments and necks of Bristol glass flasks were found, both opaque and clear, with pretty foliated decorations formed by drawing or blowing the body outwards from the neck. These may have been the property of some dandified officer, as they appear to have been suited for holding scent. Much interest attached to some small fragments of colored glass found in the Fort and on the barrack site at Bennett Avenue, which the late Dr. E. A. Barber identified as being Stiegel's make. The colors were still bright and clear, and the hope of finding a complete vessel was always one of the anticipations of the optimistic explorer. Their infrequent appearance indicated the relative scarcity of this decorated glass. The story of any camp exploration could not be told without reference to the ubiquitous liquor bottle. Its wreckage is found everywhere, and it existed in various forms and sizes. The material is always the common greenish-black glass. The characteristic inverted base, the high and sometimes bulging shoulders, the tapering and often bloated neck, are all significant features, and with the rude band twisted around the nozzle, give an individuality to each specimen. The common proportions are exhibited in Fig. 14, and a good specimen is No. 25 in Fig. 1. These bottles were all hand-made, and vary to some extent in every specimen. That in most general use seems to have been about 10 inches high by 3*4 inches diameter, of shape shown in Fig. 14. The contents were a good deal short of a standard quart