Museum, would be liable, upon an explanation of that fragment, to a similar interpretation. As to the figure now under observation, the unsightly features of its face, the peculiar form of the ears, of the nose, of the forehead, &c., exhibit all the characteristics of the copper coloured aborigines of America; and are a striking comment upon what Mr. de Pauw has collected from the writers upon that country, as descriptive of them. With respect to South America, I have myself an antique Cameo, engraved in groupe 3, Pl. IV, which it cannot be doubted has that country for its prototype. If the engraving or a cut in wood, given hereafter in representation of the lesser Ajax, be compared with the map, the south side of the latter being uppermost, the face of that figure of the gem, which has the horn on his forehead, will be referable to Peru, the eye formed by the Lake Titicaca fronting the west, the mouth by the Gulf near Guayaquil, the chin at Popayan, and the horn by the promontory that runs out to Cape Horn. figure under this in the gem will be referable to The that resemblance to a large-featured face, which is exhibited by the north side of South America, the eye formed by Lake Parime, the nose by the coast from Surinam to the river Amazon, the lips by the isle of Joanna and the more southerly embouchure of the Amazon, and the beard by the coast of Brazil. Turning the engraving of the map round in the same direction, the reader will find the third or female figure of the former to have its prototype in a small part of the eastern coast of South America, the forehead situate at Olinda or Fernambouc, the nose and mouth at the Rio St. Francis, and the chin at St. Salvador. The fourth, or ram's head of the engraving, has its prototype to the southward of the last mentioned in the map, its mouth formed by the Rio Grande de San Pedro, and a lake adjoining thereto, its nose and face by the Rivers Parana and Plate, its eye by the lake Xaraye and the horn by the river Amazon, which, in the upper part of its course, is curved spirally like a horn. In addition to what has been said of the two pieces of sculpture above noticed, it can scarcely be denied that a strong general proof of the ancients' having had a knowledge of America, results from what is said in page 13 of the 5th volume relative to groupe 1, of Pl. IV. and in other parts of the Treatise on the Signs of the Zodiac, relative to Gemini, Taurus, Aquarius, &c. So again in Homer are to be found many passages which contain general descriptions of America; as in 10 Od. 542, Αυτη δ' αργύρεον φάρος μεγα εννυτο νύμφη Besides the express mention of gold and silver, as productions of that continent, there seems, under the words λεπτον and χαριεν, to be a reference to the light and shining snow that so much abounds there; in Cwv Baker', to the tropical and equatorial circles or belts that cross America; and in иaλт, to the fogs which envelope the northern head of it. In like manner the two following lines notice the reversed positions of the embouchures of the four immense rivers of Ame rica (the Mississippi and St. Laurence, the Amazon and the Plate), though their sources (to speak of them in pairs) are not far asunder; 5 Od. 70, Κρηναί δ' εξείης πιτυρες ρεον υδατι λευκω And the following from 10 Od. 348, point again to the same four rivers, with the additional notice of the different sorts of sources from which they spring : Αμφίπολοι δ' αρα τέως μεν ενί μεγάροισι τενοντο Τεσσαρες αι οι δωμα καταδρήστειραι εασι Γίνονται δ' αρα ται γ' εκ τε κρήνων απο τ' αλσεων Εκ δ' ιερων ποταμων οι τ' εις αλαδε προρεσσι. In offering one more general description of America as contained in Homer, I would ask whether, in the situation in which the Cyclops is found in the Odyssey, 9th b. 184, περι δ' αυλη Υψηλη δεδμητο κατωρυσκέεσσι λιθοισιν in the supernatural size of the monster (190th line). σδε εώκει Ανδρι γε σιτοφαγω ριω αλλα υλήεντι Υψηλών ορέων, with a single eye in his forehead (xuxλw↓), the reader cannot recognize a poetical portrait of the vast continent of America; the socket of the eye being the great inlet of Baffin's and Hudson's Bays, and the ball of the eye, the bright shining icy island of St. James, situate within the former of those bays? whether the eye of the monster is assigned to its right prototype as above; or whether the circumstance of the fable which regard Ulysses' putting out the monster's eye by a Moxλos, heated in the fire (322d line), εν τουρι κηλέω. -μοχλον αειρας τριψαι εν οφθαλμω, may not allude to the line of the solsticial circle, which, after passing just above Iceland (by the |