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El Morro National Monument
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Did You Know?
The first English inscription at El Morro, carved into the rock by Lt. J. H. Simpson and R. H. Kern in 1849, has a spelling error: "inscriptions" was spelled "insciptions" with the "r" inserted afterwards.
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Last Updated: July 08, 2008 at 12:23 EST |