TUMULI. 



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Europe, from the shores of the Atlantic to the Oural mountains; 

 in Asia they are scattered over the great steppes, from the 



FIG. 134. 



Sepulchral Stone Circle. 



borders of Eussia to the Pacific Ocean, and from the plains of 

 Siberia to those of Hindostan ; the entire plain of Jelalabad, 



FIG. 135. 



Danish Dolmen. 



says Masson, "is literally covered with tumuli and mounds."* 

 In America we are told that they are to be numbered by 

 thousands and tens of thousands ; nor are they wanting in 

 Africa,-f- where the Pyramids themselves exhibit the most 



* Journeys in Baloochistan, Af- t See, for instance, Livingstone's 

 ghanistan, etc., vol. ii. p. 164. See Miss. Travels, pp. 210, 304. 

 also p. 155, and vol. ii. pp. 1 1 1 113. 



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