AND ALGERIA. 59 



children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry 

 land/'* In Moab, De Saulcy observed rude stone avenues, 

 and other monuments, which he compares to Celtic dolmens ; 

 and Stanley saw, a few miles to the north of Tyre, a circle of 

 rough upright stones. 



Remains, more or less similar, occur, however, in very dif- 

 ferent parts of the world ; thus, in Algeria MM. H. Christy 

 and L. Feraudf have recently examined a large number of 

 cromlechs, stone- circles, and other ancient remains, very 

 closely resembling those, which, in Northern Europe, we have 

 been in the habit of ascribing to the Druids. They occur in 

 great numbers ; indeed, in the neighbourhood of Constantine, 

 MM. Christy and Feraud saw more than a thousand, in three 

 days. They opened fourteen of the cromlechs, all of which 

 turned out, as might have been expected, to be places of 

 burial. The corpse had been deposited in a contracted 

 position, accompanied sometimes by rings of copper or iron, 

 worked flints, and fragments of pottery ; in one case even 

 by a coin of Faustina, who lived in the second century after 

 Christ. 



Again, Arctic travellers mention stone- circles, and stone- 

 rows, among the Esquimaux, though it would appear that 

 these stone- circles are quite small, and merely form the lower 

 part of their habitations. 



Thus, then, it is evident that similar monuments have been 

 erected in very different countries, and at very different 

 periods ; generally, however, in honor of some distinguished 

 man, or to commemorate some great event. 



* Joshua iv. 21, 22. 



f Recueil des notices et Memoires de la Societe Archeologique de la Province 

 de Constantine, 1863, p. 214. 



