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The preceding are four figures of unknown idols. One seems to rep 
resent a deformed Dwarf; another, a gaping Baboon; the third is ? 
monkey's or Idiot's head, cut out of white marble, found some years smc€ 
in the Misteca ; and the fourth is a mutilated body neatly carved m ser. 
^^BuTthe finest idol-specimen contained in the Conde's gallery, is the 
next that I have delineated. It was brought to him from Oajaca the an- 
cient country of Mitla and the Zapotecs-lying southwestwardly from the 
Vallev of Mexico-and is beautifully carved from a white sandstone, 
similar, I think, in material, to those found farther south by Mr. Stephens 
