THE HUMAN SPECIES. 4*21 



&c., the greater part whereof we possess drawings, we 

 find that they are placed more or less in certain ter- 

 ritorial regions, where they form groups or lines, lead- 

 ing from one to another. Thus, in particular, those 

 bearing the character of cromlechs, pass down the west 

 side of the Indus to the sea ; then divide one line east- 

 ward, following the coast to the Coimbatoor as before 

 noticed, and farther on to China and the islands of 

 the Pacific, while the other, forming two branches, one 

 follows the mountain chain to the Caspian, the other 

 by the Helmund, through the desert of Iran to Perse- 

 polis, and up the Tigris, till it meets the first on the 

 high land of Armenia, where they become directly 

 referable to Cyclopean and other Celto-Finnic tribes, 

 and pass from both coasts of Asia Minor along the 

 two shores of the Mediterranean, up the west coast of 

 Spain, and by the Alps and Cevennes down the Loire 

 to the sea, where both unite again, and then skirt the 

 ocean towards the north, cross over into Britain, the 

 final extension ending in Norway.* With the excep- 

 tion of a few observed in the United States, no monu- 

 ments of this class are detected in any other direction. 

 If we now inquire from whence the constructors of 

 these peculiar monuments originated, it is clear, that 

 tracing them back to the points whence they branch 

 off, and then further up to the ultimate limit where 

 they are found, though even then there may be traces 



* We have thought it right to repeat a part of what had 

 already been stated on this head, because here, in particu- 

 lar, it connects the various tribes of this common family. 



