ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 



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Now let us see if we can trace any further resemblance 

 between the palmettes of the sacred trees and the 

 plumose heads of the realistic trees. 



In the British Museum there are numbers of realistic 

 date trees and several sacred trees, which seem like date 

 trees, and if we make a comparison between the 

 number of leaves in both, something may perhaps be 

 revealed. 



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Fig. 52. — a. Wing feathers of sphinx, 

 pi. 32, fig. 13 ; b, wing of sphinx, 

 pi. 32, fig. 8 ; f , winged disc, pi. 62, 

 fig. 8. All from ' Grammar of the 

 Lotus.' ^ 



' It is remarkable that this winged disc should come from ancient 

 America. 



