90 
VASES OF GRANITE 
. FOUND ON THE 
COAST OF HONDURAS. 
PLATE XXXTX. 
These granite vases^ which are four times as 
large as they appear in the 39th plate^ are pre- 
served in England in the collections of Lord 
Hillsborough and Mr. Brander. They were 
found on the Moschetto shore, in a country in- 
habited at present by a barbarous nation, entire- 
ly ignorant of sculpture. They are described by 
Mr. Thomas Pownal, in the interesting Memoirs 
published by the Antiquarian Society of Lon- 
don*. I have introduced these drawings, to 
point- out the analogy that exists between the 
ornaments with which they are decorated, and 
those on the ruins of Mitla. This analogy 
* Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Anti- 
quity, published by the Soc, of Antiquaries of London, voL 
y, plate 26, p. 318. 
