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(1886) [MARC] Author: Carl Bovallius
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ROCK-CARVINGS

IN

THE ISLAND OF

CEIBA.

has certainly been densely populated in ancient times. This
fact is testified by the rich quantities of relics discovered there from
time to time. In Rivas Dr. FLINT showed me objects of bronze,
stone, and earthen-ware as well as small ornaments of thin golden
plate, spirally twisted glass-staves a. o., that were found in Ceiba. And
although my own excavations did not turn out so productive as I had been
led to expect by the rich treasures I had seen from the island, they, however,
yielded extremely valuable contributions to my collection. These will be
spoken of below, in connection with the results of my diggings in Zapatera
and Ometepec. No statues are now to be found in the island, but it is
reported by tradition that several were formerly to be found at the north side
of the island, which were carried off long ago to a hacienda in the isthmus.
These statues are said to have been comparatively small-sized. On the other
hand, the island is rich in rock-carvings, and its highest point, a flat mountain
ridge, level as floor, has, from this cause, received the name of Cerro de
Pantheon. This mountain ridge is, in my opinion, the continuation of that
edge of a crater which surrounds Bahia de Chiquero. The carvings found
on its south-western spur, Punta de Pantheon, cut in the solid rock at a
depth of two meters below the lowest surface of the lake, prove that the
island has sunk at a late period, and thus corroborate my hypothesis of the

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