MALLERY. | IN BRAZIL. 155 
of the upper part is 45 inches and of the lower 36 inches, with 13 inches depth of 
each. 
The copy mentioned is given here as Fig. 117. 
The character of the lower right-hand corner was at one time as clearly cut as we 
represent it, some of the edges being yet clear and distinct. 
At the rapid of Madeira there were a number of circles similar to 15 and 16 at Ri- 
beirdo. On a ridge of rocks in the middle of the river, just above Larges rapids, are 
figures, and we had only time to sketch one, Fig. 118. 
At Pao Grande we had a better harvest, showing evidently a later period than 
the former. One could easily believe these were made at the time of the Spanish 
conquest, the anchors, shields, and hearts being so often found in Spanish religious 
rites. Without doubt these were notices for navigators, as they were only out of 
water and seen when that passage was dangerous. Where projecting points of rock 
gave a face both up and down stream the same figure was on both faces. These 
rocks are syenitie granite and are cut to a depth of a half inch. 
Fig. 119 is a reproduction of the copy published. 
Senhor Tristao de Alencar Araripe (@) gives a large 
number of descriptions with illustrations, a selection 
of which, with translations, is as follows: 
In the province of Ceara, district of Inhamun, on the plan- 
tation of Carrapateira, is a small hill (or mound). On the 
face of one of its rocks, on the eastern side, near the edge of 
the road, is the inscription given in Fig. 120 painted in red. 
In the district of Inhamun, on the plantation of Carrapa- Fie. 118.—Character at 
teira, in Morcego, on the top of a mound, is a semicircular M#deira rapid, Brazil. 
stone bearing on the face toward the mound the four characters which appear in 
Fig. 121. 
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Fig. 119.—Petroglyphs at Pao Grande, Brazil. 
