6G CUP-SHAPED AND OTHER LAPIDARIAN SCULPTUEES. 



that they last perhaps for ages unimpaired; but that, when they do get dim, 

 there is always some enterprising doctor ready to brighten them up, and, 

 perhaps, to execute new designs. One can see blotches on the rocks which 

 are very dim, but look as though they had been figures. The pictures are 

 not critically examined by the Indians, and as no one sees the man making 

 them, it is easy to claim that they have always existed; for Indians, like 

 whites, have no objection to pious frauds and lies. They are such liai'S 

 that it is hard work to find out even the legends concerning the places. 

 They either change them to make them like something they have heard of 

 as being mentioned in the Bible, or leave out a part, insomuch that one can 

 hardly find two who relate the same story in the same way." 



Such are Dr. Denison's remarks, complimentary neither to Indians nor 

 to whites. He then gives a Klamath tradition relating to K'miikamtsh, 

 which I deem it unnecessary to insert, as it has no reference to the rock- 

 paintings just described. 



CENTRAL AMERICA. 



Lastly, I will draw attention to the curious rock-seulptures which 

 Dr. Berthold Seemann, the distinguished botanist, examined in Chiriqui, in 

 the State of Panama, United States of Colombia, and in which he discovers 

 a great resemblance to those of Northumberland, Scotland, and other parts 

 of Great Britain. After some preliminary remarks, of no particular interest 

 to the reader who has thus far followed me, he continues : — 



" It is, therefore, all the more singular that, thousands of miles away, 

 in a remote corner of tropical America, we should find the concentric rings 

 and several other characters typically identical with those engi'aved on the 

 British rocks. I discovered them near the town of David, in Chiriqui, in the 

 spring of 1 848, and read a paper on the subject before the Archaeological 

 Institute, shortly after my return to London in 1851. A brief account of it 

 was given in my ' Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. S. Herald ' (Vol. I, p. 

 312, London, 1853), but the drawings illustrating them were unfortunately 



