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[Crawtord 
The Secretary read by title the following. — 
NOTES ON CENTRAL-AME RICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 
AND ETHNOLOGY. 
BY J. CRAWFORD, 
State Geologist and Mineralogist of Nicaragua. 
Managua Nicaragua , 7tli January , 1891. 
Professor Jules Marcou, 
Dear Sir : 
.... The Honorable Senator J. D. Rodriguez is the best in- 
formed man on the Cerro Amerrique and the Indians — as he is 
on many other subjects of interest and value to his country — in 
Nicaragua — and he is a conscientious, careful and reliable re- 
lator. 1 
Enclosed herewith is a hastily compiled paper written out from 
my numerous notes on the subject. It is necessary for me to 
visit the Amerriques Indians again. Many of the old ones have 
died since my visit to them in 1888. I fear that I had the last 
good opportunity to get tradition from that people. 
Very respectfully, 
J. Crawford. 
Cerro Amerrique and Traditions Preserved by the Amee. 
riques Indians in Nicaragua. 
Cerro Amerrique is a small, nearly isolated, mountain, about 
Lat. 12 deg. 18 min. N., and Long. 85 deg. 15 min. W. (from 
Greenwich) , in the gold mining part of the District of La Liber- 
tad, Department of Chontales in Nicaragua ; a small stream of 
water, often called Quebrada Amerrique, Hows rapidly along the 
base of the Cerro and empties into Rio Mico (or “Bushmass”) 
(“Rushwass” in Mapa de Nicaragua del Pablo Levy, 1873). 
This part of the district is intersected by several “true fissures” 
Extracts of two of his letters to me are in my paper: “Ameriques, Amerigho 
Vespucci and America” ( Smithsonian Ann. Report for 1888, p. 649, Washington, 
1890.) Those two letters were published in full, and also one of President Ad. Cardenas, 
in the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, vol. xxii, pp. 192-196 
New York, 1888.— J. M. 
