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This vessel is also made of a white transparent marble. 
In a neighboring cabinet is seen a curious little figure, carved in ser- 
pentine. It appears to have been a charm or talisman, and in many 
respects resembles the bronze figures which were found at Pompeii, 
and are preserved in the Secret Museum at Naples. This relic was 
discovered at St. lago Tlaltelolco, immediately north of the city of Mexico ; 
but the design appears to me too indelicate to be inserted in a work in- 
tended for general readers. It struck me as resembling the images used 
of old in the worship of Isis, and if it does not serve as a link in the sup- 
posed connection between the Egyptians and the Mexicans, it certainly 
exhibits as great a disregard for decency as characterized the great 
" mother of ancient art and civilization." 
The figures Nos. 1 and 2, on the next page, are drawings of two Indian 
Axes or Hatchets, of stone, the first of which was discovered in Baltimore 
County, State of Maryland, and the second near St. Louis Potosi, in 
Mexico/ I have contrasted them, as singularly alike in shape and 
