414 L. HAR GRAVE. 



suitable for carvings and inscriptions, with only a thin skin 

 of soil and sods. 



On the flat rock further west, about 20 feet from the 

 harbour there are two eye-bolts leaded into the stone. 

 These had rings in them once, because the rock is called 

 the "Ring-bolt Rock." From the height of the lead and 

 the eyes above the stone they appear to have been there 

 very much more than 100 years. The iron is pitted in a 

 manner that shows it has never been through a rolling mill. 

 The bolts are 55 feet apart, and taken with their distance 

 from the water's edge, make the supposition reasonable, 

 that they were so placed to careen a vessel that had its 

 two principal masts 5 estadal apart. 1 An estadal is equal 

 to 11*128 feet. The odd \\ inches is not an excessive error 

 for the much worn end of a sounding pole or ship's measur- 

 ing rod made far from any standards of length there might 

 have been in Old Spain. ; 



The figure on Woollahra Point is carved on the rounded 

 surface of a rock, the feet are on the top of the rock 

 pointing northward, the head is to the south and at a lower 

 level than the feet. This shows that the expedition was 

 going north after leaving Sydney. 



The numerous instances of two-legged one-eared kan- 

 garoos show the Archaic Peruvian drawing. The kangaroo 

 at Woollahra Point was also done by one of the miners, but 

 came particularly under the notice of the man or woman 

 (Mariana de Oastro) who held the position at Woollahra 

 Point during the absence of the leader while prospecting 

 for gold. This woman knew how things looked that pro- 

 jected from the other side of things drawn, and ordered 

 the left ear and paw to be cut. A Peruvian Spaniard 

 would also know, but would not bother to order the additions 



1 Mr. James H. Watson, (see second footnote on page 417) is unaware 

 that a ship, when careened, is always afloat and moored head and stern. 



