the last plate of Denon's engravings. Of this I apprehend the female figure on the left hand to represent the West India Gulf as viewed with the north uppermost: the rod or augural staff in her left hand is to be referred to the tropic of Cancer; the toth in her right hand to the number 19 as marking the everduring nature of the subject intended to be commemorated. The right-hand female I apprehend to represent Hudson's and Baffin's Bays in North America; the intermediate male figure, to represent North America itself, which figure is bald from that country being constantly at its top covered with ice, the smooth nature of which is indicated by such baldness; at his feet just between him and the first mentioned female, is a flower marking the precise situation of Florida, and the pillar over which it is placed may mark the promontory which ends in Cape Florida. The feathers on the heads of the females may be ascribable, the one to the Gulf of Florida, the other to Hudson's Bay. It is observable that the West India Gulf, by adding the Bay of Honduras to either end of it, resembles two ravens,

that bay forming the head of both of them; these ravens, having such prototypes, being placed on the heads of the females, would seem to mark from whence those mischievous effects originate, which the attitudes of all the figures, which are holding up their hands as en garde, would seem to deprecate. The tablier or apron worn by the center-figure has the shape of a razor-blade thereby marking the steely or brackish nature of bad water, which quality it would appear to be the artist's intention to ascribe to the waters of all the tract of country represented by the three figures. There are other matters in the same Isiac tables which have a regard to the subject in question, but I pass on to other hieroglyphics, which have a still more obvious relation to it.

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But lest it should be thought, if I confine myself to the Egyptian sculpture, and remain silent on the statuary and gems called Greek and Roman, that it is because there are wanting in the latter, memorials of the efficacy of the substances above noticed; I shall offer from Bellicard's Engravings of the Antiquities of Herculaneum copies

of two paintings, which I think have a relation to those substances; selecting them from thence, because it seems to be generally admitted that the objects found in the ruins of that town are of an almost immeasurable antiquity. In groupe 2, Pl. III, may not the emaciated figure, with drooping head, seated upon a stone, be intended for a patient labouring under the disease mainly in question, the stone marking the aguish nature of that disease, as expressed in Comus, "in stony fetters bound?" and, further, may not that stone itself (by a reference to Laos, lapis), point to the country of Laos, as producing the gum lac, one of the most efficacious remedies for the disease; more especially as, behind the seated figure, stands a female, who may be taken (as a virgo) to represent India, through the medium of which country the lac comes to us? again, may not the trunk of the tree, on the opposite side, indicate the Peruvian bark? and lastly, as for the old man pouring out some liquid upon an altar, and thereby producing a blaze of light, may it not convey a similar enigmatical indication of alum or alumine?

In fig. 3, Pl. III., we have the same sort of sick patient sitting upon a stone, and the same sort of young female or Virgo leaning upon a still higher stone, with a stick in her hand. I consider the first as having her prototype in the West India Gulf, or lower hemisphere, the seat of the disease; and the second, her's, in India, (the prototype of the sign Virgo,) in the upper hemisphere; while the stick in the hand of the latter is a simple memorial of the efficacy of the stick-lac, as coming to us through India, for the cure of the patient's disease.

But the elegance, aimed at in the statuary and sculpture called Greek and Roman, does not so strikingly express the meaning of their artists, as the simplicity observed in the works called Egyptian. I return, therefore, to the notice of others of the latter sort.

is a copy* upon a reduced scale from one given in the 136th plate of Denon and by him stated to be annexed to a manuscript "trouvé dans l'enveloppe d'une Momie." The animal I take to be a lama

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* Whenever I state a figure to be a copy, I believe in all cases it will be found to be so as made with tracingpaper from the original; and the maps which I have used are chiefly the Abbé Raynal's Atlas, and Jannoni's small Atlas, adopted solely for their convenient size: but if a figure is said to be upon a reduced scale, it may possibly not be so accurate, as I must confess myself to be only an indifferent draughtsman.