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/ nations on a Collection of 



Bat apart from any speculations on the subject, I have to 

 lay before the Lyceum a most interesting series of green stones, 

 unrivalled, in their way, in the world, which were found 

 among the ruins of Ocosingo, in the department of Quesalte- 

 Guatemala, on the borders of Cliiapas, and not remote 

 from the more famous but hardly Less imposing monuments of 

 aque. I must not omit to Bay that, in common with simi- 

 lar they were designated by the people of the region 

 when- they were found as chalchichuites. 



In;. 8. — The first and most interesting of these is precisely 



. ' Dtnl \i erloa, Poll alio. 



■ inchec long by two and three-tenthi broad, and about half 

 :i » inch in av< i --. The face is sculptured in ton re- 



