230 OC. U. Shepard on Meteoric Irons in the U. States. 
employed in all the divisions of the work, and the writing is 
mostly quite legible. 
There is no hint throughout where this was written, nor by 
whom. The colophon above quoted seems to show that itis 
the original, at least of the Arte and the prayers. From the 
mention of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a Dominican, and from the 
known rivalry of the two orders at that time in Central Amer- 
ica, I am inclined to attribute it to a Dominican rather than 4 
Franciscan. None of the bibliographical authorities already 
quoted mention any writer of either order who prepared works 
of this kind in Cakchiquel at or very near 1692, The manu- 
~~ a of the Philosophical Society for Sept. 1836, 
Art. XVITI—Notices of New Meteoric Irons in the United 
States ; by CHARLES Upnam SHEPARD. 
hood many years since, but which until lately had bec® 
overlooked in his collection. He described the ies as consist 
pting 
oe appearance of having froma previous state of separatio® — ; 
been suddenly compressed together into a single rounded mas 
