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difplayed at the top almoft over ~ of the plate. 'On the main 

 " branch is perched an Eagle, with one wing expanded. This is 

 * 5 of raifed folid work like the reft of the figures, but there are 

 " feveral fmall birds fitting among the boughs that are only 

 " punched, or cut in with a tool, as arc alfo feveral feftcons hang- 

 " ing down from the tree, and other little flirubs and flowers in- 

 " terfperfed all over the area of the table. The great bird fitting 

 " direftly over the head of Palfos, and the attendance of the little 

 " birds about it, made me think it was her Oivl, till I had feen the 

 " original, which convinced me, that it can be defigned for no- 

 " thing but an Eagle. 



" Under this tree ftands an Altar, and fo clofc to Diana, that fhe 

 " holds her left hand and bow over it. It is but a fmall one, and 

 " has nothing upon it but a fmall globular body, perhaps a 

 " mafs of the Libamina ex Farre, Melle. et Oko. 



* I mould have told you, that below the feet of Pallas grows a 

 " plant that feems to bear two ears of corn upon the ftalk, but 

 " cannot fay what it is, or how it belongs to her : beneath the 

 " tree, and the little altar, Hands a thin-gutted dog, like a Grey- 

 *' hound, his nofe turned up in a howling or barking poilure, as 

 " often exhibited with this goddefs on medals, and in other 

 " reprefentations of her, fomc 



" - acutse vocis Hy lacier 



" Aut fubftricta gerens Sicyonius Ilia Ludon. - Ovid. 



* Under her, in the very corner of the plate, rifes a Rock^ upon 

 ' which fhe fets her left foot, and againft the fide of it lies an 

 ' Urn, with its mouth downwards, difcharging a plentiful ftream. 



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