A BEAUTIFUL VASE. 



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interest were from time to time discovered, one of 

 which, a vase, was fortunately only loaned to us 

 to make a drawing of, or it would have shared the 

 fate of the others, and been burned up by that 

 fire. The engraving below represents two sides of 



Back of Ticul vase. 



the vase ; on one side is a border of hieroglyphics, 

 with sunken lines running to the bottom, and on 

 the other the reader will observe that the face por- 

 trayed bears a strong resemblance to those of the 

 sculptured and stuccoed figures at Palenque : the 

 headdress, too, is a plume of feathers, and the hand 



