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Show Au Auelent image i)Ueuvere(I. A valuable archaeological find was mlo recently by a poor woman, by name ! Jane Houeylow, living a short distance down tho. toast lrom Tuxpan. Mexico. She was engaged in enlarging Iter little garden spot, and with a grubbing hoe was digging up a growth of woods and vinos, when coming in contact with something hard, which she found impossible to remove, re-move, she dug around it and found that object to be an iron boiler such as is used in ships. It was filled up with earth to j the depth of a foot nnd more, and this) being taken ont a large stone was found tightly wedged iu, forming a sort of lid or stopper. ! This was removed with great difficulty, but beneath was found what was evidently evi-dently once a book, as heavy leather : covers, fixed with a rusty gold clasp, I showed, though the contents hud beeu ! reduced to a mere pulpy mass, which fell to pieces when taken out. There ' wore also nearly $,100 in Spanish doubloons doub-loons of the date of 1097, but the greatest great-est archftHjlogical treasure was a small imago of the virgin and child in solid silver, which, when cleaned of the mold and tarnish, of time and soil, was found to be intetiVed wilk Latio dedkatioa |