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Show I MALLEBT. J PETROGLYPHS IN BRAZIL AND PERU. 45 thing else of which they have no information, to the Dutch as records of hidden wealth. The Dutch, however, only occupied the country for a few years in the early part of the seventeenth century. Along the coast numerous forts, the works of the Dutch, still remain; but there are no authentic records of their ever having established themselves in the interior of the country, and less probability still of their amusing themselves with inscribing puzzling hieroglyphics, which must have been a work of time, on the rocks of the far interior, for the admiration of wandering Indians. P1CT0GRAPH8 IN PERI. Dr. J. J. Von Tschudi mentions in bis Travels in Peru during the years 1838- 1842, [ Wiley aud Putnam's Library, Vols. XCIIL- XOIV, New York, 1847,] Pt. II, p. 345- 346, tbat tbe ancient Peruvians also used a certain kind of " hieroglyphics" which they engraved in stone, and preserved in their temples. Notices of these " hieroglyphics" are given by some of the early writers. There appears to be a great similarity between these Peruvian pictographs and those found in Mexico and Brazil. Tbe temptation to quote from Charles Wiener's magnificent work Perou et Bolivie, Paris, 1880, and also from La Antigiiedad del Horabre en el Plata, by Florentiuo Ameghino, Paris ( and Buenos Aires), 1880, must be resisted. |