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The illustration presented is copied here as Fig. 126, 
The account is continued as follows: 
In the province of Castro-Vireyna, in the town of Huaytara, there is found in the 
ruins of a large edifice, of similar construction to the celebrated palace of old Huanuco, 
Fig. 126.—Petroglyphs near Arequipa, Peru. 
amass of granite many square yards in size, with coarse engravings like those last 
mentioned near Arequipa, None of the most trustworthy historians allude to these in- 
scriptions or representations, or give the smallest direct information concerning the 
Peruvian hieroglyphics, from which it may possibly be inferred that in the times of 
the Incas there was no knowledge of the art of writing in characters and that all of 
these sculptures are the remains of a very remote period. * * In many parts 
of Peru, chiefly in situations greatly elevated above the sea are vestiges of inscrip- 
tions very much obliterated by time. 
The illustration is copied here as Fig. 127. 
Fic. 127,—Petroglyph in Huaytara, Peru. 
Charles Wiener (a), in Pérou et Bolivie, gives another statement, 
viz: : 
The archeologists of Peru have only found a single point—Tiahuanaco—where 
there were a limited number, though very interesting, of signs on rocks or stones 
which seemed to all observers to be symbolic. While there are a few petroglyphs 
found in Peru there are a large number of inscriptions properly so called on the 
tissues which cover or are found in connection with remains in the graves. 
A number of pictographs from Peru are described and illustrated 
infra (see Figs. 688, 720, and 1167). 
CHILE. 
Prof. Edwyn C. Reed, of Valparaiso, Chile, presented through A. P 
Niblack, ensign U.S. Navy, a photograph of a large bowlder bearing 
numerous sculpturings. No information pertaining to the locality at 
which the rock is situated or details respecting the characters upon it 
were furnished. The photograph is reproduced in Fig. 128. 
