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made potsherds, intermingled with coal. Alongside of a dolmen lay 
three silex axes and a crude figure of reddish sandstone. 
2. In Guyotville, near Algiers, only nine out of several hundred 
dolmens, which in the middle of the last century were still standing 
upright and since then carried off by inhabitants for house building, 
are now preserved in perfect condition. These were saved through 
the interest of the late German professor, Kuester, an instructor at 
the Lyceum, in Algiers, who acquired these remnants, together with 
a vineyard. One dolmen contained two crouching skeletons, the 
bones of a child, a bronze bracelet, and potsherds. 
3. At Bou Nouara, near Constantine, on the road to Guelma, there 
is a large number of dolmens, mostly surrounded by stone circles 
(pl. 1); as also at Sigus (pl. 2 and pl. 3, fig. 1), Ksar Mahidjiba 
(pl. 3, fig. 2), and El Kheneg, all in the neighborhood of Constan- 
tine. 
4, At Bou Merzoug, near Oulad Rahmoun, there are about 1,000 
dolmens, inclosed by one or more stone circles. Their contents con- 
sisted of cowering skeletons, accompanied by copper rings, pots, 
bowls, and horse bones. One tomb contained iron rings, copper rings, 
and plates, fragments of worked flint, potsherds of very fine clay, 
and a bronze medal of Faustina. 
5. At Roknia, on the road from Guelma to Hammon Meskoutine, 
there are several thousand dolmens, with contents similar to the 
preceding. 
6. At Henchir el Hadjar, in the territory of Enfida, in the regency 
of Tunis, there were still preserved in 1904 about 400 dolmens, mostly 
passage graves, often surrounded with cromlechs or stone circles. 
The tombs are often built entirely in the ground, so that only the 
flat stone cover on the surface indicates the tomb. They comprise 
up to six stone chambers, each with a threshold stone, and contain 
crouching skeletons of both sexes with platyknemic tibia and pot- 
sherds. 
7. Still farther south the existence of megalithic monuments has 
been discovered; as a cromlech of the expedition Choisy at Ain 
Messine, between Laghouat and El Golea, and a dolmen of Johnston 
in Uganda. 
Il. MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS PECULIAR TO THE LAND OF THE KABYLES. 
Only the most important will be mentioned here. 
1. Quadrangular gigantic chambers at Ellez, in the neighborhood 
of Le Kef in Tunis. They are chambers of four large stone plates, 
with doors and small windows in the doorplates. Two rows of five 
such chambers each are separated by a passage and covered with 
stone plates in form of a gable roof. The general entrance to the 
cemetery is closed with four large stone plates. 
