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 pieces of wood, which none but the handiest of all lions could contrive to hold at all, selling aside all considerations of size and weight. Over the lion is the shield of Britannia, resting apparently with the edge upon his hack, very uncomfortably for him, sufficiently so, indeed, to account, for the expression in his countenance; and over the shield are three little Cupids, looking down in wonder upon the number of odd things below.

Returning to the bottom of the piece, we find a fish's tail showing itself under the arm of a man, whose naked back is turned towards the spectators. Above him, a little to the left, the upper half of a gigantic personage appears out of the water. By the help of the explanation we learn that this is Neptune, though from his black beard and buccaneerish sort of look a sailor would suppose it to be Davy Jones; one of our Hindoo commentators may perhaps prove these