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megalithic edifices as the dromic vaults of Maes 

 How and New Grange ; to culminate in the 

 finished masonry of the tombs of Mycenae, con- 

 structed on exactly the same plan. Can any one 

 look at the varied series of forms which lie 

 between the primitive five or six flat stones fitted 

 together into a mere box, and such a building as 

 Maes How, and yet imagine that the latter is the 

 result of foreign tuition ? But the men who built 

 Maes How, without metal tools, could certainly 

 have built the so-called "treasure-house" of 

 Mycense, with them. 



If these old men of the sea, the heights of 

 Hindoo-Koosh-Pamir and the plain of Shinar, had 

 been less firmly seated upon the shoulders of 

 anthropologists, I think they would long since 

 have seen that it is at least possible that the 

 early civilisation of Europe is of indigenous 

 growth ; and that, so far as the evidence at 

 present accumulated goes, the neolithic culture 

 may have attained its full development, copper 

 may have gradually come into use, and bronze 

 may have succeeded copper, without foreign 

 intervention. 



So far as I am aware, every raw material em- 

 ployed in Europe up to the palaeo-metallic stage, 

 is to be found within the limits of Europe ; and 

 there is no proof that the old races of domesticated 

 animals and plants could not have been developed 

 within these limits. If any one chose to mam- 



