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images, and it may be observed that a very striking 

 similarity exists between these graven boundary stones of 

 the cities of Quelpart, and the Hermae of the ancient 

 Greeks, and the Termini, or Lapides Terminales, of the 

 Romans. The earliest form in which the divinities of 

 classic mythology were represented, was an unhewn stone, 

 which afterwards assumed the modification of a square 

 block, and subsequently grew, when the art of Sculpture 

 became more elaborate and refined, into a polished 

 pedestal, surmounted by the head of the favourite deity. 

 These were placed in the front of temples, and other 

 public buildings, and at the corners of streets and roads, 

 and frequently received the tribute of divine honours. 

 Whether these^Korean Hermae were regarded with reli- 

 gious veneration by the inhabitants of Quelpart, I am 

 unable to state, but I may point out the remarkable fact 

 of the existence of similar sculptured posts in the Dyak 

 villages of the island of Borneo, where they occupy the 

 same relative positions and probably serve the same pur- 

 pose. Lieut. Kolf, in his Voyages of the 'Dourg,' a 

 Dutch Brig of war, states that among the Arafuras 

 inhabiting the Ami islands, one of his officers found "an 

 image rudely formed of wood, together with a post on 

 which different figures such as snakes, lizards, crocodiles, 

 and human forms were carved, and which the owner stated 

 to be intended for preserving the house from evil spirits." 

 Crawfurd, in his history of the Indian Archipelago, 

 alludes to the existence of images of a similar nature in 

 Java: "In the least civilised parts of the island, as the 

 mountains of the Sundas, and particularly the eastern 

 province of Banyuwangi, there are found a variety of 



