88o 
The American Naturalist. 
[October, 
, and that the platforms were burial places of the 
chiefs. Nearly all the six hundred figures on the island are 
prostrate, it is not known through what agency. The platforms 
are 113 in number, and the largest found was 150 feet long, 9 
feet high, and 6 feet wide. With the original wings, it would 
have been 340 feet long. The images are of various sizes, the 
largest 70 feet in height. 
The workshop and quarry where the workmen got these figures 
out was in the crater of the extinct volcano of Ranakau, now 
' " " ^ marsh, and showing in places the cavernous 
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