n> CAI.IFOUNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENXES. 



injurious influences of the tropical rains and sun. (Jriginally the stone had a hirge 

 posterior projection, Ixit tliis was cut off so as to facilitate transportation. 



SANTA LUCIA COTZUMALGL'APA. 



The sculptures from this place are pretty well known through the works of 

 Dr. Ilabel* and Dr. Bastian.** Some of the slabs have been removed to Berlin, but 

 the largest part is yet to been seen at the original place, but exposed to rain and 

 other bad treatment. Many of the sculptures are so faint that it is necessary to 

 draw up the lines with chalk before any complete idea can be had of the same. 



The sculptures, when originally found, were covered by soil, the same being 

 thrown up into hills or mounds. At present the whole country around is covered 

 with these mounds of smaller and larger size, and as only a few of them have been 

 opened, it is not unlikely that the number of sculptures will be considerably in- 

 creased when a thorough search has been made. The way the sculptures were, or 

 are, hidden in the ground, is very peculiar. Some of them are lying down flat on 

 or near the top of the mound; others are standing upright, but covered with soil 

 up to their very tops. It is evident tluit tlio .soil has not accumulated slowly from 

 decayed vegetation, etc., l)ut it seems rather as if the sculptures have once pur- 

 posely been covered up, to be hidden, perhaps, at the approach of some enemy. 

 At the time of the Spani.sh conquest the whole of the Pacific Slope was here densely 

 populated, especially around and near Escuintla, from which Santa Lucia is only 

 distant some thirty miles. 



Through the kiiiiluoss of Mr. Edward Rockstroh, I came into posession of 

 some lead pencil and ink drawings of sculptures from Santa Lucia, made by 

 the late Dr. Carl Herman Berendt, and received also permission to publish the 

 same. One of these drawings T had already a copy of, made by myself at Santa 

 Lucia; but as my drawing was wanting in the lower part — this part at my visit 

 being covered with soil — I prefer to give the drawing of Dr. Berendt as being more 

 perfect. As this as well as his other drawings, were not exactly in a state to 

 l)e lithographed, very often having corrections of minor details on tiie margins, 

 I recopied them, inserting the corrections, etc. It is to be regretted tiiat no notes 

 as to size accompanied tlie drawings, and only meager ones as to localities. 



•3. HkIjpI.— TUe Soiilptiires i>f Siiitii Luoin Cotzuuinluaiipn, etc. Smith -ouinii Cjutributiou to Kiio vleilge. 

 2G9. Apr. 1870. 



"The work of Dr. BosliiiD, in quarto, ;i pliiles. priiiii-.l in Uurliii? I1.1S uo title, nt l.u.it iiot tlie copy tUnt I 

 buve icflu. 



