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ilu' tombs of the same kind, so numerous in K<>:y])t, in lower Asia, and 

 India. Mosl of these monuments are co\ered with inscriptions of 

 greater or less lengtli. 



DETACHED ROCKS AND MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS. 



DKSKiNS, CUPS, A.NI) liASINS, PICTORIAr. AND SYMBOLIC INSCRIPTIONS. 



These monuments are more inimerous than the preceding^. We 

 lind them scattered over every part of the earth; man has erected 



Fi(i. T. Carved rock near Fal- 

 ko])ing, "West Gothland, 

 Sweden. 



Fig. 8. Dolmen. Gavr "Inis, in 

 Baden. 



Fig. !t. Mane Liid dolmen in Loc- 

 mariaker. 



megaliths wherever he has found stone. Selecting at random 

 among the numerous representations of monuments of this kind, we 

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

 Rantoen (fig. 7)," near Falkoping, in West Gothland (Sweden) ; one 

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

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



a Montelius (Oscar). Der Orient und Europa, uberg v. Metsdorf. Stockholm, 

 1896, 8°, p. 28. 



b Diction, archeol. de la Gaule. Atlas. 

 c Ibid. 



