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proved that this suggestion is in the main correct, and that the 

 Eude Stone Monuments of Cornwall and Devon were reared by a 

 race which preceded both Kelts and Saxons, and in an early 

 stage of the Neolithic period. No existing ideas touching these 

 monuments — certainly here, probably elsewhere, — can, then, be 

 provably traced, in legend or in custom, to their authors. 



[To le continued'\. 



