ROCK-CARVINGS 
northeast side of the mountain had an inclination to the 
north, but was quite vertical on the south side. 
Beautiful crystals were to be found in abundance on 
this mound, as well as great quantities of marble chips 
and crystallized rock in various forms. 
On the side of this strange mound of rock I found 
some curious, shallow caves, formed by great fissures in 
the rock. The vertical, outer walls of these caves were 
painted white with lime dissolved in water. There were 
some puzzling carvings, which interested me greatly. I 
could not quite make up my mind at first whether those 
carvings had been made by Indians, or whether they were 
the work of escaped negro slaves who had found shelter 
in those distant caves. In character they appeared to me 
Indian. Negroes, as a rule, are not much given to rock¬ 
carving in order to record thoughts or events. Moreover, 
those primitive carvings showed strong characteristics of 
hunting people, such as the Indians were. There were 
conventional attempts at designing human figures, both 
male and female, by mere lines such as a child would 
draw: one round dot for the head and one line each for 
the body, arms, and legs. Curiously enough — and this 
persuaded me that the drawings had been done by Indians 
— none of the figures possessed more than three fingers 
or toes to any extremity. As we have seen, the Indians 
cannot count beyond three, unlike members of most 
African tribes, who can all count at least up to five. 
This, nevertheless, did not apply to representations of 
footmarks, both human and animal, which were repro¬ 
duced with admirable fidelity, I think because the actual 
footprints on the rock itself had been used as a guide 
before the carving had been made. I saw the representa¬ 
tion of a human footmark, the left, with five toes, and the 
shape of the foot correctly drawn. Evidently the artist 
or a friend had stood on his right foot while applying the 
left to the side of the rock. When they attempted to draw 
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