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twenty-five feet would imindute all the subterranean volcanic 
caverns in that region, and tlie water coming into highly heated 
fissures and caves would cause terrific explosions and violent 
expulsions of volcanic bombs and the extrusion of large quantities of 
fused aqua-igneous materials, and wouhl thus compel animals of 
all kinds to hastily seek refuge at the most accessible locality. 
The synchronous activity of all the volcanic masses and cones 
in western Nicaragua is well marked on the miiinland. Some of 
the extrusions yet remain, in small areas, at several places 
between rocks, to a depth of three or four feet, on the Island of 
Momotombito, but the greater part of the ejecta which fell on the 
island has been removed by rain Hoods. 
In the face of such oatastrophies — subsidence, floods, and vol- 
canic activities — the sculptors and their people would have moved 
eastward, across Lakes Xocotlan and Nicarago (Nicaragua) to 
the verdure-covered Amerrique range of mountains visible 
from Momotombito. 
A striking similarity exists between the type of man rejire- 
senled in the stone images discovered in the valley of Momotom- 
bito and the form and features of the Amerrique people^ now 
living on the eastern side of the Amerrique range of mountains. 
The small stone images discovered at San Pe<lro de Lobado (four 
leagues south of the southern end of the Amerrique mountains) 
closely resemble the large stone images discovered on the Island 
of Momotombito ; the former are claimed by some of the Amer- 
rique |)eople to have been sculptured by their ancestors, at the 
time (very long ago, they say) when their people also occupied 
the valley of San Pedro de Lobado and south wai-d to the Rio 
Rama, within a few miles of the route selected for the Nica- 
ragunn Interoceanic Canal. 
There exists a striking resemblance between the stone images 
made in the valley of Momotombito, those made at San Pedro de 
Lobado, the Amerrique people, the Chibehas and Muyscas (in 
western South America), and the Polynesians, and all these are 
quite different from any other people or the works of their 
ancestors, yet discovered in South, Central, or North America. 
There is a quite clear resemblance between the sessile stone 
images found near the northern end of the volcanic island of 
1 Not pure Indians although generally so designated; apiiarently modified descen- 
dants of the Mongolian type. 
