Archeology and Ethnology of Easter Island. 
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crater. (Fig. 2.) No metal was known ; the tools were chisels 
and adze blades of tough volcanic rock. They cut into the cliff, 
outlining and rounding the figure until it was detached, then 
probably mounted it on skids, 
nd dragged i 
Though the volcano is 1 400 
feet in height above sea-level, 
the crater is easily accessible 
over a low, sloping place in 
■ its rim. How these people 
moved these images over the 
singularly difficult topograph)- 
the island presents, is a prob- 
lem. They moved monoliths 
60 feet high, weighing at 
least 50 tons, twelve miles, 
and set them up ! This, too, 
without any timber, except 
driftwood. Many of the ^^' '^'~^ 
images were abandoned, however ; they i 
from the crater — the only place where suitable rockwa 
to the platforms. 
The houses found on the island were arranged in parallel rows 
facing the sea, built of small irregular slabs of stone. They 
