162 Mr. Ranliing on the Ruins of Palenque, 



who wear a head-dress in shape like a mitre. • (Dr. Cabrera, 

 page 38, describes an idol at Palenque, with a mitre, or cap, 

 with bulls' horns, and says that, without doubt, it is Osiris.) 

 So minutely do the descriptions of Dr. Cabrera agree with the 

 figures in M. Chappe's volume, that he mentions a strap, or 

 thong, with three ends, in the right hand of Osiris, and laman- 

 daga has precisely such a strap in his right hand ^. This idol 

 has upon his feet buskins, or caligcs, similar to those on the 

 soles of the feet of several persons in these plates. 



X. — A man, probably a divinity, seated upon a kind of throne^ 

 supported by two beasts .like panthers, with his right leg bent 

 horizontally before him, dressed in a helmet and feathers, a 

 fringed apron, a necklace and wrist ornaments, a small portion 

 of border-writing of a human head. This figure has the long or 

 high skull. 



' Remark. — The Calmuc divinities are represented with one 

 or both legs under them, generally like Bhudda, {Chappe, 

 Vol. i. several plates,) but this is more probably a Turcoman 

 idol ; the Calmuc and Turquestan region being the same. 

 This is the most civilised of all the figures. It has a kind of 

 Persian elegance, like the Calmuc idol Zouncaba, in Chappe, 

 Plate xxiii. 



XI. — A full human figure, very fancifully decorated, the head 

 of a bird over his head, and an instrument in his mouth, as if 

 blowing it. Above the ancles, and at the wrists, it has orna- 

 ments round them ; they appear to be composed of about twenty- 

 five pieces of sticks or shells, three or four inches long, and close 

 together. 



XII. — A building, three stories of which are represented. 

 They diminish in size at each story ; the entrance is by doors : 

 there are not any windows. The interior was filled with loose 

 sandy earth. In the small turrets, at the top of the tower, there 

 were two stones embedded in the walls, on which were sculptured 

 two female figures, with extended arms, each supporting an 

 infant, very imperfect, which appears to point out that this was 

 the burial place of two queens. There were three crowned heads^ 



• See the accompanying engravings, copied from Vol. i.303, 308, of Voyage en 

 Sib^rie, par M. Chappe d'Auteroche, 3 vols, folio. Paris, 1768. The third volume is 

 a description of Kamtchatka, by Professor Kracheninikof. This splendid work con- 

 tains very numerous fine engravings. It is called two volumes^ but is boHnd in three. 



