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have taken from an article by Dr. I-eunart Aberg.* It will be seen that 

 cups and wheel-shaped figures accompany the more elaborate representa- 

 tions. 



INDIA. 



Professor Desor lays particular stress on the circumstance that cup-stones 

 are found in various parts of India. "We touch here upon the main point 

 of our thesis,"t he says in his often-quoted pamphlet (page 33), in order to 

 render his appreciation of the fact more conspicuous. He mentions that a 

 number of years ago, Colonel Meadows Taylor and Dr. Wilson have drawn 

 attention to the analogy between the megalithic monuments of India J and 

 those of Great Britain, while recently the similarity of the figures sculpt- 

 ured on them was pointed out by Mr. J. H. Rivett-Carnac, an officer of the 

 Bengal civil service. Just at the time when I was engaged in preparing 

 this treatise, that gentleman sent copies of his publications to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and I became thus enabled to draw my information from 

 the original sources. 



In the district of Nagpoor, tumuli surrounded by single, or, less fre- 

 quently, by double stone circles are quite numerous ; but the most extensive 

 gi'oups of this class of barrows are situated near Junapani, a hamlet lying 

 about five miles westward of the civil station of Nagpoor, on the high- 

 road to Katole. These mounds were explored in 1867 by Mr. Rivett-Carnac 

 and two other gentlemen. 



"From the people of the neighborhood," he says, "and even from the 

 Brahmans and other learned persons of Nagpoor, who speak with authority 

 on the ancient history of the provin'ce, no satisfactory^ information regard- 

 ing the tribes who constructed these barrows is to be obtained. Some will 

 tell you the story that these mounds are the work of giants, or of the Gao- 



* Aberg: Hiillristningar uti Boliusliin, in: Anualer for Nordisk Oldkyndighed ; Copenhagen, 1839, 

 Plate X, p. 386. 



t "Nona touchons ici au point capital de noire thfese." 



} Descriptions and representations of megalithic monuments in India, derived from sources hardly 

 attainable in this country, are found in Fergusson's ' ' Eude Stone Monuments " (p. 455, etc. ), where also 

 interesting details concerniug the recent erection of menhirs, dolmens, etc. , by the Khasias in Bengal 

 are given. 



