PLATE LIX. 



first is male, the latter female, and both, but the latter more 

 especially, affords a very striking elucidation of the compound object 

 denominated the Mermaid*,'' as well as the probable motive for its 

 fabrication, if we are indeed to consider it as an object of mytho- 

 logical superstition, which is not, in the least degree, improbable. 



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