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inscriptions; artificial foot-tracks on stones belonging to burial-structures, 

 p. 25-27. — Wheel-shaped sculptures on isolated blocks and megalithic mon- 

 uments; they are thought to pertain to the ages of stone and bronze; some- 

 times associated with rude designs of ships; group seen on the cap-stone of 

 a funeral chamber near Herrestrup in Seeland; ship-sculptures probably 

 referable to the bronze age; similar designs on bronze knives or razors; 

 absence of sculptures on rocks in situ in Denmark, p. 27-28. 



Sweden. — Diversity of primitive sculptures in Sweden; the cupjjed 

 granite boulder called the Baal or Balder Stone, in the neighborhood of 

 Falkoping; a sacrificial altar used in Baal-worship, according to Pi-of Sven 

 Nilsson; other Swedish cup-stones; they are called e//s'fe«a/-, or elfstones, p. 

 28-29. — Boulders in Scania with cup-excavations and wheel-shaped sculp- 

 tures; slab from a Scanian tumulus, called Willfarahog, shows designs of a 

 chariot and of ships, and, in addition, cups of earlier date; description 

 of the tumulus, which is ascribed to the bronze age by Prof. Nilsson; 

 analogy between the' designs on the slab from the Willfara tumulus and 

 those on the chamber-stones of the Kivik monument in Scania; these struc- 

 tures ascribed by Nilsson to Baal-worshiping Phoenicians; description of the 

 Kivik sculptures; absence of cup-cuttings; the Kivik monument and simi- 

 lar Scanian structures claimed for Denmark by Dr. Petersen ; Scandinavian 

 sculptures on natural rock-sui-fjices ; ^particularly frequent in the Liin of 

 Bohus; represent scenes of war and hunting, manned and empty ships, etc.; 

 ascribed by some to the bronze-age 2:)eople, but by Prof. Nilsson to the 

 Vikings of the eighth and ninth centuries, p. 29-31. 



India. — Cup-stones found in India; importance of their occurrence; 

 analogy between the megalithic monuments of India and those of Great 

 Britain pointed out by Col. M. Taylor and Dr. Wilson; later discoveries in 

 India by Mr. J. H. Rivett-Carnac; his writings; he explores tumuli near 

 Junapani, in the district of Nagpoor ; traditions relating to them, p. 31-32. — 

 Description of these tumuli; cui)-cuttings on blocks surrounding them, but 

 no ring-sculptures; articles found in the tumuli, p. 32-33. — Cup-sculptures 

 discovered by Rivett-Carnac on stones and rocks in situ in the mountains 

 of Kumaon; temple of Mahadeo at Chandeshvvar; cup and ring-cuttings on 

 a rock in the vicinity; legends relating to these sculptures; "Mahadeo," a 



