ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



are several corridor-tombs of simple type. Each 

 consists of a long rectangular chamber with only 

 one cover-slab, that being at the west end. In 

 a well-known example of this type at Kosseir 

 there is a hole in one of the two uprights which 

 support the cover. 



These examples will serve to show the import- 

 ance and variety of the Syrian monuments. They 

 present analogies with those of many parts of the 

 megalithic area, and we therefore await anxiously 

 the publication of Mackenzie's promised article on 

 his own explorations in this district. 



The central and southern parts of India afford 

 numerous examples of dolmens. They are to be 

 found in almost all parts of Lower India from the 

 Nerbudda River to Cape Comorin. In the Nilgiri 

 hills there are stone circles and dolmens, and 

 numbers of dolmens are said to exist in the 

 Neermul jungle in Central India. In the collec- 

 torate of Bellary dolmens and other monuments 

 to the number of 2129 have been recorded. 

 Others occur in the principality of Sorapoor and 

 near Vellore in the Madras presidency. These 

 latter appear to be of two types, either with three 

 supports only or with four supports, one of which 

 is pierced with a circular hole. Of the 2200 

 dolmens known in the Deccan half are of this 

 pierced type. They are known to the natives 

 as " dwarfs' houses." One only had a pair of 



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