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Mareano (c) describes Fig. 152 as follows: 
The chain of Cuchivero, situated in Venezuela between the Orinoco and the Caura, 
shows on its flanks small plateaus on which are numerous stones which seem to have 
been aligned. This chain is separated by a deep valley from that of Tiramuto, from 
which were copied the petroglyphs here presented. The one represents a single sun, 
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the other two suns joined together. The rays of the former run from one circumfer- 
ence to the other. The other two are joined together by a central stroke, and the 
rays all start from the outer circumference. 
The same author (loc. cit.) thus describes Fig. 153: 
These designs, taken on the little hills of the high Cuchivero, differ altogether 
from the preceding. «a is a very regular horizontal grouping. It begins by a spiral 
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joined to three figures similar among themselves, and similar also to the eyes of 
jaguars which we have often met with. There follows a sort of isolated fret; at 
its right is another, larger and joined toa circle different from the 
preceding; it has a central point, and the second circumference is 
interrupted. The figure terminates in a spiral like the one at the 
beginning of the line, and which, being turned in the opposite 
direction, serves at its pendant. 
b is formed of two horizontal rows one above the other. We 
there find first of all two frets united by a vertical stroke ending in 
a hook. The characters which follow, resembling those of a, are 
distinct in each row, but on closer inspection they are seen to 
haye a peculiar correspondence. 
Dr. Ladislau Netto (b) gives copies of carvings on the yy. 454. Cup seulp- 
rocks in Brazil on the banks of the Rio Negro, from — ‘res i» Brazil. 
Moura to the city of Manaus, and remarks upon the characters repro- 
duced here as Fig. 154, that they represent the figure of the multi- 
ple concentric circles joined together two by two, as were found 
