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b. Guatemala.— The Cueva Encantada de Mixco. Described by 

 Fuentes y Guzman in the year 1700. Its length was three leagues 

 It served the aborigines as a place of adoration and sacrifice in honor 

 of the Divinity of the Fountain, Cateya, Mother of the Water or God- 

 dess of the Water. The grottoes in the neighborhood of Mitla on 

 Mictlan, of which the most celebrated were those of Tibulca and 

 Penol. 



c. Salvador.— Cavern near the village of Aguacavo and of the Eio 

 Lempa. It is deep. The Cavern of Corinto. The Cueva y fuente 

 de Sangre, near Amatillo, on the frontier of Honduras. 



d. Nicaragua.— The Cavern of Metapa in the Dept. of Matagalpa. 



e. Costa-Eiea.—Th'ere are several caverns in the Province of Gua- 



/. Venezuela.— One should not neglect the famous Caverns of the 

 Orinoco; Cerro de Luno, Ipi Iboto and Cucurital, the antiquities J 

 which with skulls of the aborigines, deformed and natural, have been 

 recently found by Crevaux and Dr. Marcano. 



t'^ Confess a note on the cup-nnrkim- „f I" |.i-mx ., ar \lvnum- 

 de-Luchon, Pyrenees. II,- , JIXV ' ( . -, description' Then' wen" three 

 series of these. The Calhande Pourics, the alignments of Peyrelad* 



and of Couseillat. He gave a description of th^t- >toncs which while 

 of granite boulders within reach of the glacier, of the ( >s and hear- 

 ing marks of glacial action, yet had undoubtedly been placed in their 

 present position by human intervention, and so were monuments of 

 human art. Cavities of greater or less size and depth had been wrought 

 in their surfaces, which were to be eounted In- the hundred,. These 

 were cupstones, and were quite prehistoric, no person having within 

 historic times had anv knowledge of their orhdn or purpose. M. 

 Sacaze believed these sculptures to be contemporaneous with the mon- 

 uments which- thev ornament. The stone- mcdi i-.v- b. -r. sepulchral 



