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thing else of which they have no information, to the Dutch as records of hidden 

 wealth. The Dutch, however, only occupied the country for a few years in the early 

 part of the seventeenth century. Along the coast numerous forts, the works of the 

 Dutch, still remain; but there are no authentic records of their ever having estab- 

 lished themselves iu the interior of the country, and less probability still of their 

 amusing themselves with inscribing puzzling hieroglyphics, which must have been 

 a work nf time, on the rocks of the far interior, for the admiration of wandering 

 Indians. 



PICT0GRAPH8 IV PERU. 



Dr. J. J. Von Tschudi mentions in his Travels in Peru during the years 

 1838-1842, [Wiley and Putnam's Library, Vols. XCIII-XOIV, New- 

 York. 1847,] Pt. II, p. :t !.">— 340, that the ancient Peruvians also used a 

 certain kind of "hieroglyphics" which they engraved in stone, and pre- 

 served in their temples. Notices of these "hieroglyphics" are given 

 by some of the early writers. There appears to be a great similarity 

 between these Peruvian pictographs and those found in Mexico and 

 Brazil. 



The temptation to quote from Charles Wiener's magnificent work 

 Perou et Bolivie, Paris, 1SS0, and also from La Antigiiedad del Hombre 

 en el Plata, by Florentino Aineghino, Paris (and Buenos Aires), 18S0, 

 must be resisted. 



