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town of IJ;iiii:i was tlu' [niiicipal town of tlic Aincrrujues, situated 
on the eastern foothills of the Ainerrique range of mountains, 
where placer mines containing gold and lodes rich in gold are 
found. 
Note : — The six stone images described in this paper have 
been disposed of as follows : — 
Two of them are 953 and 954 in the collection of prehistoric 
anthropology in the Smithsonian institution. Early in 1892, 
under the direction of the author of this paper, three others were 
removed from the Island of Momotombito to the city of Leon, 
Nicaragua. Two of these are to constitute a part of the Nicara- 
guan exhibit in the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 
1893. The other complete and in good preservation was prom- 
ised in July, 1892, by President Roberto Sacasa of Nicaragua, to 
Hon. Seiior Senador Doctor T. Tigerino of Chinandego, Nic, 
for the Peabody museum at Cambridge. The other was broken 
and the head, it is reported, sent to Philadelphia. 
Note by Jules Marcou. — This paper by Mr. Crawford, 
giving an account of the great antiquity of the men who sculp- 
tured and chiseled hard rocks into representations of men with 
only flint, jasper, and obsidian tools, is, on account of his careful 
geological observations in the valley of Momotombito, the most 
important yet published. 
Half way between Central America and New Zealand, at the 
very small Easter Island, the numerous stone images show that a 
land route existed, in Quaternary times, across the present Pacific 
Ocean. The learned M. Alphonse Pinard, explored Easter Island 
in 1877, finding, in the valley of the Roronoraka volcano, forty 
stone statues or images, woi'ked out of trachytic rock. In digging 
there he found at some de^Dth a quantity of stone obsidian imple- 
ments, which were used in cutting and ]»olishing the images or 
statues. Stone images of colossal size, as many as eighty at a 
single place, have been found at other places on the island. (Ex- 
ploration de I'ile de Piques, Bull. soc. geogr., Paris, Sept., 1878, 
p. 193.) 
The sculptors of the stone images occupied a very wide area 
froni Central America, Peru,, Bolivia, and Chili to Easter Island, 
New Zealand, and Tasmania. As to their original place, it is 
difficult to give a ])ositive opinion ; they may liave come from 
Polynesia as Mr. Crawford is inclined to think, or they may have 
