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that, while preserving much the same form, they fall into several 

 types. In the first type (plates xliii, 4, 5) one of the prominences is 

 cut in the form of a head, while another represents the limbs or 

 body, the conical prominence remaining unchanged. In another 

 type (plate xliii, 6) all three prominences are without carving, but 

 a face is cut between two of their projections, the legs either appear- 

 ing on the side of the stone or being wholly unrepresented. In still 

 another type (plate xliii, i, 2) the conical prominence is modified 

 into a mouth or nose, giving the stone, in some instances, the form 

 of a mask. 



The Archbishop's collection contains a good specimen (plate 

 XLIII, 5) of the first type of these objects; there is a head on one 

 projection, limbs on the other, and a conical protuberance between 

 the two. Two specimens of this type from Porto Rico differ but 

 little from those in the Latimer collection. One of the latter (plate 

 XLIII, 4) is of fine brown stone, the other (plate xliv, 2) of black 

 basaltic rock. Both are smooth and well made, while the latter is 

 one of the largest yet recorded. Another (plate xliv, i) of the same 

 type, made of white marble with yellow patches, may be considered 

 the finest specimen in the collection obtained by the writer. Its 

 conical process, instead of being pointed, is hemispherical, and the 

 surface is decorated with incised geometric figures, among which the 

 circle and triangle predominate. A small mammiform idol, also of 

 the second type, is made of black stone with surface decorated with 

 incised circles and other geometrical figures. This object shows 

 superficial remnants of a black resin or varnish which possibly orig- 

 inally covered the surface of all these idols. A pit on the back of 

 the conoidal projection recalls a similar depression on the head of 

 certain other specimens. Not all these stones of the second type 

 have faces cut upon the conical protuberances ; several were found 

 which are perfectly smooth, although their forms are strictly the 

 same as those on which eyes, nose, and mouth are indicated. One of 

 these, which is very small and smoothly polished, is significant owing 

 to the light which it sheds on the use of these stones. This I will 

 shortly refer to. 



The third type (plate xliii, i, 2) includes specimens in which the 

 conical projection does not exist or in which its place is taken by the 

 snout or mouth of an animal. The general form of this type is the 

 same as that of the other mammiform images, having the slightly 

 concave, rough under surface terminating in a prominence at each 

 end, while the conical projection is replaced by a morth or nose, 

 recalling a form resembling a mask. In other words we have in 



