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the tombs of the same kind, so numerous in E|;y])t, in lower Asia, and 

 India. Most of these monuments are covered with inscriptions of 

 greater or less len<jifth. 



DETACHED ROCKS AND MEGALITIIIC MONUMENTS. 

 DESIGNS. CUPS, AND BASINS, PICTORIAL AND SYMBOLIC INSCRIPTIONS. 



These monuments are more numerous than the preceding. We 

 find them scattered over every i)art of the earth; man has erected 



Fi(i. 7. C'arved rock near Fal- 

 koping, West Gothland, 

 Sweden. 



Fig. 8. Dolmen. Gavr 'Inis. in 

 Baden. 



Fig. y. Mane Lud dolmen in Loc- 

 mariaker. 



megaliths wherever he has found stone. Selecting at random 

 among the numerous representations of monuments of this kind. \\c 

 shall call attention to a few, by way of example. Ballersten de 

 Kantani (fig. T)/' near Falkoping, in West Gothland (Swed(Mi) ; one 

 of the dolmen stones of Gavr Tnis, in Baden (fig. 8)''; another of 

 the Mane Lud (fig. 9),*^ in Locmariaker; the Dead Man's of Vanga 



«Montelius (Oscar). Der Orient unci Europa, uberg v. Metsdorf. Stockholm, 

 1896, 8°, p. 28. 



6 Diction, arclieol. de la Gaule. Atlas, 

 c Ibid. 



