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DECORATIVE PAVEMENT AT RHEIMS. great lawgiver still extends his hand towards this means of salvation for the Israelites, Aaron turning round appears to be addressing tlieni reproachfully for having previously been so faithless towards God, so disloyal towards their divinely .appointed leader. The fish are delineated, I imagine, simply to denote that the wavy lines around them are meant to imlicate the sea, after an ancient Assyrian and Egyptian custom ; although ]I. Tarbe finds a further reason for their appearance here, when, speaking of this subject, quaintly observing : " On voit Moise fendre la mer, les poissons sent surpris de ce qui arrive ! " No. 4 portrays Nebuchadnezzar, clothed in ample flowing- robes, and with a peculiar kind of cap on his head, whilst t Nelmrliiuliit'/zfir. before liiru stand Sli;idracli, Mcsli.-ich, and AliciliK^go. Tin's Hcene is laid wlicn iIk; lineal of tlic burning liery furnace had