arching over these fragments, the first
personal ornaments yet found were discovered,--two small plates of
silver with holes bored in them, by which they must have been suspended
from the ears. One had lost a corner; but they had originally been cut
or broken to the same size and form, and were evidently a pair. Between
them lay a skull, which had been placed by itself, and was the first
found unbroken. The ornaments, from their position, seemed to have been
detached from the head when deposited there. A few feet from that relic
lay the limbs of a female, of slight and delicate form. They were
unbroken, and much slighter than any others found there. Between the
plates was the fragment of a piece of cotton cord which had attached one
of the plates to the ear.

While everything about the relics from the previous mounds indicated the
savage condition of the people who formed them, these little silver
trinkets, though rude, proved feelings approaching women in a state of
civilisation. They, with the unbroken condition and comparative
soundness of the bones found near them, bring us nearer our own times.
As the state of the remains differed from those of the others, so
probably did the period and circumstances of the poor girl's fate; but
there is a mystery about it which cannot now be explained. After the
mound had been opened, the Indian congregation, neatly dressed, went in
procession, with their pastor and teacher, from the chapel to the mound,
and collecting round and over it, the various tribes joined in singing
the glorious hymn--

"Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Doth his successive journey run!"

while the lamb, the dove, and other Christian emblems on the banners
borne by the school children, waved over the yawning cavity which had
disclosed such relics of barbarous days, indicated a blessed change in
the life of that long neglected race. May it be extended over the whole
continent!

VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS.

The trees and animals of Guiana afford a more satisfactory subject for
contemplation than the degraded inhabitants. Among them, sin has not
entered. They remain in all their perfection and beauty, as they first
appeared fresh from the hands of the Creator. A large number are so
similar to those found in the Valley of the Amazon, that they need no
separate description. In the upper waters of its streams the
magnificent Victoria Regia, so long unknown to the eyes of civilised
man, was di