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of stone frogs, about nine inches long, very rudely carved, and many pieces of mealing- 

 stones and rollers. 



The two squat stone figures now placed on either side of the gateway leading to 

 Senor Arevalo's house (Plate LXXV., a) were found in the neighbourhood of the 

 mounds, and a similar figure, now much mutilated, stands by the roadside near the 

 entrance to the city. 



The mounds themselves are composed of earth, and even where cuttings had been 

 made into them I could see no trace of stonework. However, Senor Arevalo, whose 

 house is built on the top of one of the mounds, and whose farm-land extends for some 

 distance among them, told me that he had dug out a good many stones from the 

 interior of the mounds, and he showed me some which he had used in building his 

 stables. These stones were of a volcanic rock, well faced and measuring about 

 3 feet X 1 foot X 6 inches. One of them had the head of an animal cut on it in low 

 relief. 



There are still some mounds on the east side of the Barranca within the suburbs of 

 the city of Guatemala, and it is probable that others were destroyed when the city 

 itself was built. 



BIOL, centr.-amer.j Archseol., Vol. II. , August 1902. g 



