KAU] NORTH AMERICAN CUPPED BOULDERS. 55 



It embodies CaiDtain Dupaix's original report with illustrations made di- 

 rectly after Castaneda's drawings. Both publications give a representation 

 of the stone in question ; but these designs are so unlike each other that it 

 is impossible to form a correct idea of its character. Fig. 44 is a copy of 

 Lord Kingsborough's illustration.* The figure shows fourteen well-defined 

 cup-shaped cavities, perfectly resembling those on the stones heretofore 

 described. In the later work— "Antiquit^s Mexicaines" — which might be 

 supposed to be the more reliable one, the stone is figured on a larger scale,t 

 but bears only in outline a resemblance to Kingsborough's illustration. 

 Instead of distinct cups it merely shows a number of irregular cavities, 

 totally different from the cups indicated on Kingsborough's plate. Hence 

 there remains a doubt as to the real appearance of the stone, which will 

 not be removed before it has been examined again by some explorer. I 

 translate the description of the stone, as given by Dupaix in "Antiquitds 

 Mexicaines": — 



"From this place (Orizaba) we proceeded toward the bridge across the 

 river Blanco, sixteen leagues southeast of the city, in order to examine a 

 rock called Teololinga. It is spherical in shape, very hard, of a bluish-black 

 color, and emits no fire when struck with a steel. It has been skillfully 

 placed in the midst of an extensive savanna. It measures about twenty- 

 two feet and a half in circumference and a little more than six feet in diam- 

 eter. This stone, poised upon its axis by those who formerly fashioned it, 

 has the peculiarity that, when touched only with the little finger, it moves 

 and continues to vibrate for some time; while it remains apparently motion- 

 less when a greater force is applied. On its surface are seen some circular 

 holes (ti-ous circulaires) of little depth, which can hold water in seasons of 

 rain. It appears to have served in olden times as a boundary or land-mark 

 (de home ou de limite), for there is another one at a distance of two leagues 

 from it."t 



* Vol. IV, The Monuments of New Spaiu, by M. Dupaix, Part I, Plate IV, Fig. 10. 



t Atlas, Premifere Partie, Planche VIII. 



{ Antiquitfe Mexicaines ; Relation do la Premiere Expedition du Capitaine Dupaix cu 1805, Vol. 

 I, p. 7.— For the sake of comparison I copy here the less complete description published by Loid Kings- 

 borough :—" From hence (Orizaba) we went to the bridge of the river Blanco, about forty-eight miles 

 south-east of Orizaba, in search of a large stone called Teololinga. This stone is spherical in^its form, 

 very hard (though it will not emit fire when struck by the steel), and of a dark-blue colour. It has evi- 

 dently boon wrought into its present shape, and placed in the middle of a spacious plain, by the ancient 



