282 Journal of the Asiutic Society of Bengal. [{N.S., XVU, 
Now it should be noted here that the Basque language 
‘which has been connected with every outlandish language 
Chhota Nagpur right up to Spain across the Red Sea, Egypt, 
Libya and N. W. Africa in prehistoric times. The remarkable 
dispersal of similar signs in prehistoric times over such an area 
makes us pause a little over this speculation. 
We now pass on to the light task of finding Indian ana- 
logies in megalithic signs. For these Mr. Letourneau’s papers 
though the earliest, are still the best. In dealing with some 
inscriptions on French megaliths called the ‘Marchands’ he 
was led to institute comparisons between them and alphabetic ° 
forms occurring elsewhere. I have got about a dozen com- 
parative tables in my notebook from Hoerne’s “ Urgeschichte 
der bildenden Kunst” to Petrie’s last in “ Scientia,’ and as 
I do not find anywhere Indian signs brought in, not even in 
Wilke’s studies in ‘‘ Sudwest EKuropaische Megalithkultur und 
ihre Beziehungen zum Orient” or in the later “ Kulturbeziehun- 
gen zwischen Indien, Orient und Europa,” it may be presumed 
at it has escaped the notice of Kuropean archaeologues. 
So my business here is to show that the analogies apply 
to India as well though I have been content to cite every- 
neolithic or chalcolithic or megalthic style in Brahmi as the 
case may be. Thus! sign No, 1. which occurs according to 
Letourneau as ) and bh is similar to Brahmi d (cha); sign 
No. 2 which occurs both as ¢ and 9 is almost identical with 
Brahmi Cc (ta); sign No. 3 (}) resembles Brahmi , (gha); sign 
No. 4 © is the same as Brahmi © tha); and the doubtful 
character in figure 6 which occurs as J] and f is the same 
in form as Brahmi 1} (kha). What is still more surprising is 
akin to the Ethiopians. The predynastic Egypti iopi 
ef} gyptians were Ethiopians 
Bruce Foote and Morgan think also of the Early Egyptions and Dravi- 
dians as possibly akin, : 
(c) The dynastic people who conquered Egypt are according to 
Anu In hip ataey tradition we read that the most 
nicht arise Leute’ i 
erica es Leute’ who came to India was 
Iphabetiformes des inscriptions mega- 
! Vide 
lithiques. Bulletins de la Societe d’Anthropologie de Paris, 1893. 
