SPEAR HEADS. 
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to me, and it certainly still bore the marks of what he described it to 
have been, although much worn down by ploughing. On sketching 
the head of a spear before him, such as I had seen in the sculptures of 
Persepolis, he said that it was originally of that shape; and on com¬ 
paring its size with those in the hands of the large figures in the ruins, 
I found it exactly to correspond. 
