REVIEWS. 175 
were cut in Mexico by Indian lapidaries under the orders of Cortez, and 
were most elaborately worked. One was wrought in the form of a little 
bell, with a fine pearl for a clapper, and had on its lip this inscription in 
Spanish, Bendito quien te crió! Blessed he who made thee! he one 
valued most highly was in the shape of a cup, with a foot of gold. All 
of them were pres- , 
ented by Cortez to his 
second wife, who thus, 
Fig. 50, 
rkab 
these emeralds, Peter 
robbed by the French 
pirates, that must have 
surpassed any of them 
in size and value. 
eer 
and trinkets of a hard, 
green stone, which 
they call by the Mex- 
ican name, and which they regard as of great value; *a string of frag- 
ments large enough for an ear-ring being worth as much as a mule.' 
Mr. Blake, suspecting this stone to be turquoise, and learning that it was 
Basso-Relievo of the god Cuculcan, from Palenque. 
fragments of the so-called chalchihuitil ‘of applegreen and peagreen, 
passing into biuish-green, capable of a fine polish, and of a hardness 
