which is an exact copy from the map of Honduras. I think there cannot be a moment's doubt, that the former must, of necessity, be referred to that country.

Fig. A 1, has a face that somewhat resembles that of a hare, and may not without reason, therefore, be ascribed to the island of Jamaica, the outlines of which have the shape of a hare, as drawn in

Fig. 192,

the back being on the south side of the island, and the head pointing the east. A 3, has the head of a whelp or cub, and so points to the island of Cuba; and A 4, may be referable to the island of St. Domingo, and more particularly, perhaps, to the gulf at its western end, called the Bite of Leogane, as alluded to by the remarkable position of the mouth of the figure.

According to these conjectures, the four figures A 1, 2, 3, 4, will represent the four principal seats of American or West India fever; and this may be no unfit occasion to observe, that three out of the four districts in question (namely, the islands of Cuba, St. Domingo, and Jamaica) in one point at least, namely, in having promontories that correspond in position with the hands of A 1, 2, 3, 4, have a strong resemblance to those figures; as may be seen by comparing

Figs. 193

and 194,

(which are severally drawn from their prototypes, the islands of Jamaica and St. Domingo) and fig. 184 ante, which had for its prototype the island of Cuba, as well with the map of those islands, as with the figures, A, 1, 2, 3, 4 and if the heads of the jars under the table (which, like the figures themselves, are marked with stripes, Tλnya), be compared with those of the four last mentioned figures, there will be found a great similitude between them; and as the jars resemble water-jars, it was probably intended to intimate by them, that it was owing to the bad qualities of the water of those countries, that the mischief happened, which it was the intention of the painting to com

memorate.

But before we quit the central stripe

of the painting, containing the numerous iron instruments, above noticed, it is proper to observe, that the three similar figures there severally marked q, are particularly referable to the island of Cuba, or rather to the eastern half of the island for if we look at the map of the island with that end uppermost, it is very easy to conceive an arm extended from it towards the north, terminating in a hand at the small groupe of islands called Mira per vos, terms, which I apprehend, to mean in the Spanish language, "look at yourself," which groupe may therefore be aptly represented as a lookingglass; and the dotted line in figure 181, cuts off accordingly so much of the island of Cuba, which, if we conceive a looking-glass in the situation above pointed out, will form a complete prototype for the three figures at q: and taking the figure of Cuba in its entirety, with a looking-glass in one hand and a comb in the other (for which last, vide figure 182), we shall have the prototype of the fabulous character of the mermaid.

With respect to the figure laid at length upon

the dog-shaped table, C, if we recollect the prototype to which the lady in Comus was referred, namely, to the bay of Honduras, and then consider the situation of that bay in regard to the country of Honduras, itself, which is the prototype of that table, as shewn by fig. 191, we shall be satisfied of the identity of this figure with the lady in Comus.

It should seem naturally to follow, after what has just now been said (and before, in treating of Comus), that the tall figure, E, with a glass of water in his hand, which by the position of his other hand he destines for the stomach of the lady, has the same prototype as Comus himself, namely, the island of Cuba; to be satisfied of that, however, we are not to view the island of Cuba (as was done, in treating of Comus) with the east end uppermost, and the face looking north, but with the east end still uppermost, and, with a long beard, as in figure E, looking south, directly down upon the lady. In fact, it is the prototype of this figure E, viz., the Island of Cuba, which, as stated, in treating of Comus, is here also evidenced, to be the principa cause of the malady; and I take the blades of the