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MEXICAN MONUMENT 
IN RELIEF, 
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FOUND AT OAXACA. 
PLATE XI. 
.This relief, one of the most curious remains of 
Mexican sculpture, was found a few years ago, 
near the town of Oaxaca. The sketch was 
communicated to me by an eminent naturalist, 
Mr. Cervantes, professor of botany at Mexico, 
to whom we owe the knowledge of the new 
genera cheirostemon, guardiola, and many other 
plants, which will be published in the Flora of 
New Spain by Messrs. Sesse and Mocinno. 
The persons who sent this drawing to Mr. Cer- 
vantes assured him, that it was copied with the 
greatest care ; and that the relief, sculptured on 
a blackish and very hard rock, was more than a 
metre in height. 
They who have made a particular study of 
the Tolteck and Azteck monuments must be 
