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to the north-west, and mixed, to a great extent, with Finnic 

 and Getic nations ; we are desirous of distinguishing them 

 from all others, collectively, as Celto Scythse, or Celto Finnic, 

 and more distinctly, by substituting one or the other of the 

 above names. Their probable movement down the Oxus, and 

 passage to the Oural mountains, and thence by Russia, Poland, 

 the Baltic, Scandinavia, and Denmark, into Friesland and Bel- 

 gium, has already been partially noticed ; and taking the so- 

 called Celtic mode of erecting monuments, altars, and tombs, 

 with huge stones, on the surface of the earth, or hidden in 

 cairns and barrows, as proof of their presence, we have in 

 more than one place pointed out that they must have been sea- 

 men on more than one occasion, have traversed great portions 

 of the South Seas, and left the evidence of their toils on the 

 coasts of China as well as America.^ That these massive 

 structures are not the chance-work of races of unallied nations, 

 is plain, from the fact, that among nearly one hundred and fifty 

 cromlechs, logging-stones, masses of unwrought rock, cleared 

 away to constitute them into colossal idols, circles of stones, 

 parallellitha of linear or curve-linear ranges of upright stones, 

 single maen stones, mysterious caves for worship or initiation, 

 shealings, &c, the greater part whereof we possess drawings, 

 we find that they are placed more or less in certain territorial 

 regions, where they form groups or lines leading from one to 

 another. Thus, in particular, those bearing the character of 

 cromlechs pass down the west side of the Indus to the sea ; 

 then divide, one line eastward, following the coast to the Coim- 

 batoor as before noticed, and further on to China and the islands 

 of the Pacific; while the other, forming two branches, one 

 follows the mountain chain to the Caspian, the other by the 

 Helinund, through the desert of Iran to Persepolis, and up the 

 Tigris, till it meets the first on the high land of Armenia, where 



* In the atlas of Messrs. Quoy and Gaimard there are some delinea- 

 tions of these seeming Celtic structures in the South Seas not before 

 noticed. 



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