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earlier cofinection between Ceiba and Zapatera. This connection has been
dissolved by the gradual sinking of the volcano.
The western portion of the island is plain, partly cultivated, partly covered
by bush, the eastern is very rugged. Cerro de Pantheon, its highest point,
is about 60 meters above the surface of the lake. This mountain ridge is
80 to ioo meters in length by io to 15 in breadth, and offers an
extraordinarily welkfit place for rock-carvings. And, indeed, the ancient inhabitants of
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the island have made suqh an eager use of this opportunity that the whole
crown of the ridge is densely covered with sculptures. This crown, as has
been mentioned before, forms a perfectly level surface; indeed, it is not quite
impossible that human hands may have helped nature to level it. On the part
of the mountain chiefly occupied by the rock-carvings, the vegetation was
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very scanty, consisting of5 low shrubs and stiff grass. I could not detect any
carvings on the different sides of the mountain, nor on the large loose blocks
of stone north of Cerro de Pantheon. But on large flat or round blocks,
detached long ago from the side of the mountain, and lying all the way
down to the southern shore at Punta de Pantheon, numerous carvings were
found. Such were also to be seen there in the solid rock as well on land
as on that part of the rock that stretches into the lake. I can here give
illustrations only of the lesser part of the carvings. The wreaths were
generally even, boldly cut, 4—6 cm. broad, 2—3 cm. deep.
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PI. 37.
It represented the upper part of a human figure. The face was broad,
with round eyes, broad nose, and square mouth. The head was surmounted
by four plumes, meant, according to the conception of my Indians, to
represent a crown of feathers. On this account, they honoured the figure with
the name of «La Reyna». The chest was short and broad, the arms very
long, the hanefe circular, the left one much larger than the right one, both
provided with eight radiating fingers. The length of the figure from the
crown of the head to the lower edge of the breast was 64 cm.; the breadth
between the elbows 127 cm.
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