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signs are recognized as exactly similar to those of Letreros, of the island of Fer, 
and almost all the others are analogous, for we recognize at once in comparing them 
the same style of bizarre writing, formed of hieroglyphic characters, mainly rude 
arabesques. 
SECTION 5. 
ASIA. 
A considerable number of petroglyphs found in Asia are described 
and illustrated under other headings of this work. The following are 
presented here for geographic grouping: 
CHINA. 
Prof. Terrien de Lacouperie (¢) says: 
It is apparently to the art of the aboriginal non-Chinese that the following inserip- 
tion [not copied] belongs, should it be proved to be primitive; and it is the only 
precise mention I have ever found of the kind in my researches. 
Outside of Li-tch’eng (in N. Shangtaug), at some 500 li on the west towards the 
north, is a stone cliff mountain, on the upper parts of which may be seen marks and 
lines representing animals and horses. They are numerous ard well drawn, like a 
picture. 
JAPAN. 
Prof. Edward 8. Morse (a) kindly furnishes the illustration, reduced 
from a drawing made by a Japanese gentleman, Mr. Morishima, which 
is here reproduced (.4, original size) as Fig. 145 a: 
FiG. 145 a.—Petroglyph in Yezo, Japan. 
Prof. Morse in a letter gives further information as follows: 
“The inscriptions are cut in a rough way on the side of the cliff on the 
northwestern side of the bay of Otaru. Otaru is a little town on the 
western coast of Yezo. The cliffs are of soft, white tufa about 100 feet 
high, and the inscriptions were cut possibly with stone axes, and were 
1 inch in width and from 4 to 4 of an inch in depth. They are about 4 
feet from the ground.” 
Prof. John Milne (a) remarks upon the same petroglyph, of which he 
gives a rude copy, as follows: 
So far as I could learn the Japanese are quite unable to recognize any of the char- 
acters, and they regard them as being the work of the Ainos. 
I may remark that several of the characters are like the runie m. It has been sug- 
