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Pacific, were dug out. In a valley, or rather ravine (Stat. 4), near
Alta Gracia, where a heap of pretty large, partly cut stones seemed
to indicate the site of a large building, several fragments of pottery
were found together with a cup of earthen ware, and a well
preserved little sitting image of painted terra cotta, pretty similar to
that figured by Bransford, 1. c., p. 59. At a height of nearly 350 m.
above the level of the lake on the west side of the majestically
beautiful volcanic cone (Stat. 5), while digging in a rather extensive
stone-mound, a very pretty, vaulted earthen urn with lid, painted
in three coulours, was found, and, besides, a great many fragments
of pottery. I made excavations also at six other places in Ometepec,
for inst. in the isthmus between Ometepec and Madera, but without
any results worthy of record.
I stayed in this charming double-island for more than a month,
roving through it on horse-back and on foot in all directions,
ascending the volcano, rowing and sailing over the delightful
lagoons and bays, that border its shores, and amongst which I shall
late forget that very paradise for the hunter, Laguna de Santa
Rosa and Charco Verde. Having left Ometepec about the
beginning of February, my next visit was to «tierra firme», where
I made some easily executed, but not very successful excavations,
immediately to the north of San Jorge. From Departemento
de Rivas’ I sailed to Las Isletas, also called Los Corales,
an extremely beautiful little archipelago, just southwards of
Granada. The whole group owets its existence to the volcano
Mombacho, which towers high above it, the islands consisting
exclusively of the remains of one or more eruptions of Mombacho.
But the vegetation here is so powerful and luxuriant, that it has
changed those piles of black stones into smiling islands, which the
traveller is never tired of admiring. Only on the outside of the
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