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and Spaniards. The affair in litigation is a farm^ 
the plan of which is traced in orthographical 
projection. We see the high-road pointed out 
by the marks of the feet ; the houses sketched 
in profile ; an Indian, whose name indicates a 
bow ; and Spanish judges sitting in chairs with 
the laws before them. 
The Spaniard, placed immediately above the 
Indian, was probably called Aquaverde ; the 
hieroglyphic of water, painted green, being 
figured behind his head. The tongues are very 
unequally divided in this picture. Every thing 
portrays the state of a vanquished country*.' the 
native scarcely dares defend his cause, while the 
strangers with long beards talk much and loud^ 
as the descendants of a conquering people. 
