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We needed a force of men to make proper investigation, and had to 

 leave such further and more thorough search for another time. Leav- 

 ing Mr. Burnell here, Mr. Taylor and I walked on for about half a 

 mile, in hope of finding others on the side of a knoll. But none were 

 visible ; and, after a rest, we returned. 



FROM THE REV. I). C. SCUDDER. 



PULNEY Hills, May 31, 1802. 



Yesterday I had a tramp indeed. A little after six, I was oiF on 

 pony with the horse-keeper and a coolie, who carried my lunch and a 

 hoe. By nine o'clock, I reached a river not far from the first-seen 

 cromlechs. There, seated on a flat rock, the water foaming all about 

 me, I ate my cold eggs and biscuit, and then went on to the old spot. 

 I set the boy at work digging in one to see if he could find a slab 

 below corresponding to the slab above. He soo'n came to one, though 

 it was well covered with rocks and loam. At the end of this cromlech 

 was another apartment of about like size, full of cobble-stones. To 

 get at this end of the slab, I must remove part of the pile. It was 

 hard work in the hot sun ; but we finally succeeded in uncovering both 

 ends. The slab was very heavy, a foot thick, three feet wide, and 

 five feet long. It was impossible to lift it. All I could do was to feel 

 underneath. There was clearly a hollow ; but whether any thing was 

 in it I could not tell, though I pulled out a handful of damp leaves. 

 After digging a while, I pushed farther on in search of new cromlechs. 

 After riding two miles along a mountain-slope, I came to another spur 

 of the mountain, jutting out into the valley. . . . Of a sudden, look- 

 ing about me, I espied what I most wanted to see, — cromlechs. They 

 were on the brow of the hill, in exactly similar position to that of the 

 old ones. But they were much finer, in a better state of preservation, 

 and larger. One slab was enormous. It was full eight feet high, six 

 feet long, and a foot and a half thick, standing perfectly perpendicular 

 on edge. This had nothing to correspond with it; but abreast of it, 

 and in perfect line, were two well-shaped apartments, measuring each 

 about six feet in length and three in width, about four or five feet high, 

 three-sided, with no slab on top. Then on what would answer as the 

 opposite side of the street was another row, but in a very tumbled- 

 down condition ; and at one end of the street was another smaller one, 

 facing in the opposite dii'ectlon. They all face either east or north. 



It was very evident where the slabs came from ; for the brow of the 

 hill was a bare, stratified gneiss rock, easily peeling off into thick slabs, 

 and the places fi-om which they were taken were plainly marked. 

 Some of these cromlechs also were wholly shut up ; and I should like 

 to look beneath. I dug again here In search of a lower slab ; and, 



So all, thus far examined,- 



