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VASES OF GRANITE 



FOUJTD OX THE 



COAST OF HONDURAS. 



PLATE XXXIX. 



These granite vases, which are four times as 

 large as they appear in the 39th plate, are pre- 

 served in England in the collections of Lord 

 Hillsborough and Mr. Brander. They were 

 found on the Moschetto shore, in a country in- 

 habited at present by a barbarous nation, entire- 

 ly ignorant of sculpture. They are described by 

 Mr. Thomas Pownal, in the interesting Memoirs 

 published by the Antiquarian Society of Lon- 

 don*. I have introduced these drawings, to 

 point out the analogy that exists between the 

 ornaments with which they are decorated, and 

 those on the ruins of Mitla. This analogy 



* Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Anti- 

 quity, published by the Soc. of Antiquaries of Londou, vol. 

 v,. plate '26, p. 318. 



