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coloured serge. The dress and cloak were adorned with Roman letters 

 of green colour upon a gold ground, which nobody so far has been able 

 to interpret. On the collar are the following : — See Inscription I. a. 



" On the border or margin of the dress below are these : — See 

 Inscription I. b. 



"All are not here, for in order to give away as a relic, some one had 

 broken off a piece of the skirt and of the pedestal. In the part of the 

 sleeve near the left wrist are : — See Inscription I. c. 



"The robe was girt about below the breasts, which on both sides 

 had a very graceful effect, with a girdle of blue, on which were the 

 following : — See Inscription I. d. 



" The border of the cloak was of burnished gold, and the right side 

 contained these letters : — See Inscription I. e. 



" The letters on the border of the left side were : — See Inscription 

 If. 



"On the lower part of the cloak at the back were these letters : — 

 See Inscription I.g. 



"The scientific importance of deciphering these letters may limit 

 itself to an acquaintance with' one of the nations that navigated these 

 seas in antiquity. 



(The description of the supposed inscription of Anaga is omitted, 

 since it presents no definite trace of phonetic writing). 



Island of Canaria. 



" Some inscriptions have been publicly talked of, as found in the 

 ravine of Los Balos in the pueblo of Santa Lucia, and, as far as I can 

 remember, the subject was treated either by Dr. Chil or the Senores 

 Millares, all illustrious historians of our archipelago, but the first to 

 make them known through the press was Dr. Verneau, about 1882, in 

 the ' Revue d'Ethnographie ' of Paris. Up to this time in which we 

 find ourselves no one has deciphered them. — See Inscriptions II and 

 III. 



"Inscriptions of the ravine of Los Balos in the pueblo of Santa 

 Lucia in Gran Canaria. (Dr. Bethencourt's notes on the supposed 

 written remains of Gomera are omitted, because his illustrations are 

 mere fragments, conveying no information. His statement regarding 

 Fuerteventura is, that no real inscriptions have come to light there. 



