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ceiitage of the lower and even of tlie middle classes of Latin - 
Americans now (1892) living in Nicaragua, excepting possibly 
the Ainerrique ])eople who live on the east side of the Amerrique 
range of mountains in south-central Nicaragua. 
Evidences as to the tools. That tlie sculpturing was done Avith 
stone and flint tools is shown by three facts : (1) Fragments of 
these were found wedged or forced into some few vesicular 
cavities in remnants of two of the images; (2) No flints nor 
felsites are found elsewhere in cavities nor in surface deposits on 
the island ; (3) No metallic oxides nor metallic oxide stains 
(^■. e., no evidence of metallic tools) were discovered in any I'ock 
examined at the works. The rocks were probably saturated with 
water while the sculpturing was in progress, because small druses 
of quartz were found in cavities in two of the rocks that liad been 
Avorked on by the sculptors. The flint, jasper, petrosilex, and 
felsite for making the tools, were obtained either from a valley on 
the mainland distant about six leagues from the stone statues, 
on the Island of Momotombito ; or from the side of Cerro Tablone, 
about 14 leagues to the southwest and within two leagues of the 
Pacific Ocean where rough chip])ing of flints and stone ari-ow- 
heads, spearheads, etc., probably of Solutrian age, exist. These 
are the only localities in tliat part of Nicaragua whore flints, 
jaspers, chalcedonies, novaculites, and felsites are found. 
The clay of which the ])ottery found w^ith the stone images was 
made was most probably obtained about five leagues west, oti 
the mainland, at a locality now known as Pueblo Nuevo, the 
only place where such claj* is found within a radius of about 
twenty miles. The Indian women now living there make 
cooking utensils, osiers for water, etc., and sell them in the city of 
Le6n, eight leagues west of Pueblo Nuevo. 
Whither the sculptors and architects and their people migrated; 
their probable descendants. 'I'he submergence of twenty-five feet 
of the Island of Momotomljito would have also submerged to a 
greater depth all the plains and land west and southwest from 
the island to the Pacific Ocean, except the small Cerro Tablone, 
about 14 lengues to the southwest, and a few knolls and ridges, 
and the volcanic cones and* masses to the southeast, south, north- 
west and north of the island, and would have caused the people 
living there to seek safety from the storms and waves of the 
Pacific Ocean. A subsidence of western Nicaragua to a depth of 
