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therefore were moft probably of the fame fhape. It feems 
very hard to conje€ture as to the ufe they were applied to, 
unlefs it were for ornament on the wrifts of fome chieftain 
or high prie{t, in like manner as rings are worn on the fingers, 
for there does not feem to be any other purpofe they are fit 
for; and their formation feems much to favour this, inafmuch 
as their circle is not fixed to one fize, but it may be con- 
fiderably extended by comprefling the extreme parts of the 
limbs together, fo as to admit of the largeft fized hand to en- 
ter, and then the ring clofes by its own fpring, and fecures 
the inftrument from falling off, even from a fmall hand.— 
The two limbs being uniformly placed, fhew that their form 
was not accidental, and the bends at top are fo fhort, that the 
gold would thereby have been broken, were they not given 
by the maker with the help of fire. One of the limbs of the 
perfe&t one is graved by way of ornament, and it feems at 
top to be better finifhed than the other, and was probably worn 
outfide for the fake of the better appearance, as the ftone of 
a ring is placed moft in view on the finger. This inftrument 
fingly weighs 9 oz. 2 pwt. 11' grs. troy. The other inftrument, 
as it appears, has been broken in two places, at or near the 
junction of the limbs:to the circular part; one of the limbs 
has been loft, or at leaft is not forthcoming; but the other, 
though not joined in one piece, accompanies the circular part, 
and appears to have had at firft the fame fhape as the limbs 
of the perfect inftrument, but it has been diftorted “by the 
violence of breaking it, or otherwife. Thofe two fragments 
weigh 402. gfw?t. 16ers. therefore the whole together weigh 
tlby 10%. 12 pwr. 33ers. troy, of /aid gold, there not being 
any 
