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children after.- In plunging the hands must be held in such a position as to make the fingers' ends touch the breast. The place and bounds for bathing were fixed by the priest. In this form of celebrating the Green Corn Festival, or Festivals, we may perceive, that with it, appropriate observances, several of the ceremonies, of the Ah, tawh, hung, nah,- the Festival of Propitiation, or Cementation,- and those by no means accordant with the occasion, or occasions, of which it bore the name,- are intermingled. The prayer for cleansing from all the pollutions and impurities of the year preceding; and the various typical lustrations, so obviously connected with that prayer, are manifest interpolations; and the impressions that they were originally borrowed from the Ah, tawh, hung, nah, is strengthened by the afsection of those who describe the mode of celebration which is just given,- that the people considered themselves purer after this Festival than at any time during the year; a remark invariably accompanying the accounts given by their elders of the Ah, tawh, hung, nah,- the Propitiation or Cementation Festival only;- and surely inapplicable to any of the rest.- A further evidence in proof of this view of the matter, may be found in the fact that the observers of the mixed form now described, have no