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and Spaniards. The affair in litigation is a farm, 

 the plan of which is traced in orthographical 

 projection. We see the high-road pointed out 

 by the marks of the feet ; the houses sketched 

 in profile ; an Indian, whose name indicates a^ 

 bow ; and Spanish judges sitting in chairs with 

 the laws before them. 



The Spaniard, placed immediately above the 

 Indian, was probably called Aquaverde ; the 

 hieroglyphic of water, painted green, being 

 figured behind his head. The tongues are very 

 unequally divided in this picture. Every thing 

 portrays the state of a vanquished country : the 

 native scarcely dares defend his cause, while the 

 strangers with long beards talk much and loud* 

 as the descendants of a conquering people. 



