Observations on a Collection of 



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Fig. 18 (full size of original) is the easily recognizable figure 

 of a frog, in a kind of malachite, from the island of Omotepec, 



Lake Nicaragua. 



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Fig. 18. 

 Sculptured frog, Nicaragua. 



Fig. 19 is of still another and harder variety of green stone, 

 from a mound near Natchez, and appears to be a strange com- 

 bination of the head of the siren of our western waters, or of 



Fig. 19. 

 Carved green stone found near Natchez. 



the frog, with the human body. It is also pierced laterally, 

 like those already described, doubtless for suspension. 



I do not present Figs. 16, 17, 18, and 19 as specimens of the 

 ehalchihuitl, but as showing the regard paid to green stones 

 generally. It is one that pervades both continents and many 



same publication states that he found a similar object in Jamaica forty years ago, 

 also called a thunderbolt. It was kept in an earthen jar filled with water, and 

 was supposed to keep the water cool. 



