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TWO STONE FIGURES. 
which marked the idols brought by some of our navigators from 
the Sandwich isles; but the forms of these were sufficiently 
intelligible to declare them man and woman. Their heads were 
of an enormous size ; the lower part of their persons dispro¬ 
portionately short. The male figure wore a kind of pointed 
cap ; the female one of a similar taste, with the addition of two 
projections behind her ears. She had also a petticoat ; but 
whether the rest of her person were vested with a close garment, 
I could not make out; I only saw that her forms were pretty 
decidedly delineated. The man was wholly clothed, having, 
besides an undercoat similar to the woman’s, the indication of 
a robe hanging from his shoulders, and fastened to his breast 
by two large buckles. From beneath the garments of both, 
something projected more resembling stumps than feet. I at 
first supposed the figures were kneeling, but, on closer examin¬ 
ation, found that they stood erect. From the sole of their feet 
to the tops of their heads, they measured about four feet and a half. 
People at the post-house told me such figures are frequently 
discovered in various parts of the Steppe, when turning up the 
ground. The male figure had something like a book in his 
hand; a very unlikely appendage to a statue of those parts, and 
of its probable age. 
