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dig in the centre. He soon struck upon a slab. I left it a day or two, 

 but yesterday had him try it again. We had other help, and soon 

 found that it was hollow below. But we could only pry oiF a small 

 piece of a slab large enough to let me in. I got in, and found myself 

 in a regular cromlech, about six feet long and three wide, but quite 

 choked up with dirt. We could not lift up the larger piece, and 

 had to leave, and come again at night with two big levers and ropes. 

 This was last night, while I had my catechists here, and they helped 

 me. We dug some, and found in one corner a potter's vessel, and on 

 the side four. It was almost dark : so we covered the vessel with dirt, 

 and came home. The meeting closed yesterday. So, to-day, I set 

 out with the determination of giving up one day to antiquities. I 

 went out about six with a gardener, and we went to work. The first 

 thing we came to of interest was a doorway in one end ; that is, a 

 round hole, with a stone set up against it outside. I hurrahed inter- 

 nally; for this was a discovery. It corresponds precisely with crom- 

 lechs found upon the Nilagiris, and which I have never seen here. It 

 is supposed, and I think with good reason, that these are tombs, and 

 that the hole was made for a person to enter and deposit the bodies for 

 sepulture. In proof of this are the contents of the tomb. One thino- 

 after another turned up ; but I will simply state what, not detailing the 

 individual things. We found a pot on four legs, a remarkable affair. 

 The chief things were two big pots, such as I described before as con- 

 taining smaller vessels, lying on their sides, facing the door. In the 

 rest of the room were fragments of pots and vessels of all sorts, heaps 

 upon heaps. We hardly found a whole one there. We did, however, 

 secure some, and of different patterns from any I have seen before ; 

 and among other things some covers to pots, — rare things. I found 

 also several iron instruments ; but they were too far gone by rust to 

 make them out. Lastly, some bones made their appearance. I think 

 there were bones all through the soil, but crumbled, so as to leave only 

 a white powder. We got out one of the big pots, and, tying it to two 

 beams, the men, some half-dozen, brought it home. I came home late 

 to breakfast, and returned immediately after, having a shady place 

 under ground. I staid until four, eating lunch in the cromlech ; and 

 then went home to dinner. I worked hard all day, and am pretty de- 

 cidedly tired to-night : so you will give me credit for writing at once. 

 I think the broken pots, etc., are evidences that the place is a family 

 tomb, or was ; and that the pots were broken or disarranged by persons 

 entering to make fresh deposits. But such enormous slabs of stone ! 

 The room faces exactly east ; and the slabs are six feet wide by seven 

 or eight high, the end ones three feet wide by seven high. There is 

 no place short of a mile whence they could have been brought. 



