Rock Inscriptions in Brazil (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rock Inscriptions in Brazil

Returning from Aguas Bellas to the Rio Sao Francisco by way of the village 'of Sant' Anna, in the provmce of Alagoas, at half a league from this latter place I found the figures shown at x ih scribed upon the side of a large gneiss boulder of decomposition. These figures are both cut and painted, and have the same dull red color as those at Pedra Pintada. There are other marks upon the vertical faces of this and of the other boulders of the group, evidently made by the same hands. These are simply polished spots varying in sizevfrom one to two feet in diameter. They are, for the most part, nearly round, but some of them are oblong, and none of them are more than \about a quarter of an inch in depth - most of them not so deep, and are all painted. The stones upon which these inscriptions are made, as {has already been stated, are gneiss boulders of decomposition, about a dozen in number, from Six to twelve feet in height, and are grouped together upon the summit of a little hill of solid gneiss, as shown in the accompanying sketch.

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