16 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
injurious influences of the tropical rains and sun. Originally the stone had a large 
posterior projection, but this was cut off so as to facilitate transportation. 
SANTA LUCIA COTZUMALGUAPA. 
The sculptures from this place are pretty well known through the works of 
Dr. Habel* 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 that the soil has not accumulated slowly from 
decayed vegetation, etc., but 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 Spanish conquest the whole of the Pacific Slope was here densely 
populated, especially around and near Hscuintla, from which Santa Lucia is only 
distant some thirty miles. 
Through the kindness 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 
sume. One of these drawings I 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—lI 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 
be lithographed, very often having corrections of minor details on the margins, 
I recopied them, inserting the corrections, etc. It is to be regretted that no notes 
as to size accompanied the drawings, and only meager ones as to localities. 
*S. Habel.—The Sculptures of Santi Lucia Cotzumalguapa, ete. Smithsonian Contribution to Kuo wledge. 
269. Apr. 1879. 
** The work of Dr. Bastian, in quarto, 3 plates, printed in Berlin? has no title, at least not the copy that I 
lave seen. 
