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pity
of the gods, who mercifully changed them into trees, and their tears
still flowing on, became Amber. A yet stranger origin is given to this
fossil, in the well-known couplet of the fire-worshippers—" Around thee
shall glisten the loveliest Amber, that ever the sorrowing sea bird
hath wept."
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The great value set upon Amber, even in pre-historic times, is seen in
the care with which objects of this material were interred with their
possessors in tumuli or burial-mounds of very early date. The finest
archaic specimen in this country is an Amber cup in the Brighton
Museum, originally found with bronze and stone weapons in a barrow at
Hove.
AMBER.
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