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found situated upon the Syrian coast, in the very region of 
the Phoenicians themselves. He also alludes to the crom- 
lechs which are affirmed, on the authority of Sir Richard 
Colt Hoare, to have been discovered so far east as Mala- 
bar. I have not the means at present of consulting this last 
mentioned author’s History of Ancient Wiltshire, where the 
account appears, but, happily, the drawings are copied into 
the work of your late friend Mr. Godfrey Higgins, in his 
‘Celtic Druids,’ who states, that ‘ it is remarkable Sir Richard 
Hoare did not accompany the sketches with any observa- 
tions ;’ but he properly adds, that ‘ this author’s character 
is too well known to admit a suspicion of their genuineness. 
To this remark I heartily subscribe, and if any doubt could 
ever have existed on the subject, (of which I am not aware,) 
it must be removed by the communication which I now send 
you, being an extract of a letter, with drawings, from my 
son, Mr. William Hibbert Ware, relative to cromlechs dis- 
covered by him near Belgaum. The information is to the 
following effect : 
*<*T enclose you two sketches of remains which very much 
resemble the cromlech of Kits Coty House in Kent. These 
I accidentally stumbled upon in the course of a tiger hunt. 
Into the composition of each of these monuments four stones 
enter, which incline towards one another, and are surmounted 
by one large horizontal stone. From an inquiry of the na- 
tives, including information which I received upon the spot, 
I learn that these remains are tombs of ancient date; and 
hence, from analogy, equally reasonable with a supposition 
entertained on the round towers of Ireland, it is probable 
that such piles in England were erected more as sepulchral 
stones than for other uses. It is affirmed, that the present 
structures were never raised for religious purposes. The 
height of the pile, shewn in sketch fig. 1, is eight feet, the 
other dimensions being proportionally represented; and this 
estimation applies also to sketch fig. 2. Their composition 
is greenstone.’ 
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