398 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



they become directly referable to Cyclopean and other Celto 

 Finnic tribes, and pass from both coasts of Asia Minor along 

 the two shores of the Mediterranean, up the west coast of 

 Spain, and by the Alps and Cevennes down the* Loire to the 

 sea, where both unite again, and then skirt the ocean towards 

 the north, cross over into Britain, the final extension ending in 

 Norway.* With the exception of a few observed in the Uni- 

 ted States, no monuments of this class are detected in any 

 other direction. If we now inquire from whence the construc- 

 tors of these peculiar monuments originated, it is clear, that 

 tracing them back to the points whence they branch off, and 

 then further up to the ultimate limit where they are found, 

 though even then there may be traces of them not as yet dis- 

 covered, we have a proximate solution that they commence 

 either beyond the crest of the central high land of Asia, or at 

 least that they are to be found about the Indus, before that 

 stream escapes to the open plain ; that is, again, about Hindu- 

 Koosh, and in the vicinity of certain significant local names, 

 such as Penghir (Pen-y-ghir), Carura, &c., bearing Celtic 

 meanings. It is the region west of high Kashgar, north-west 

 of Cashmere, (he vicinity of the first known station of the 

 Pandoos, or Pandei. It is near the first great central sacred 

 troglodyte city, Bamean (Adrepsa), and not far to the north 

 from the first commencement and divergences of the character- 

 istic cromlechs ; for it is along the southern flank of the Paro- 

 pamisus that they pass on northward to Armenia, while another 

 descends the Indus to the sea, and thence branches both eastward 

 and to the interior of Southern Persia. From this vicinity we 

 find also that the oldest pagan diluvian legends have radiated;! 



* We have thought it right to repeat a part of what had already been 

 stated on this head, because here, in particular, it connects the various 

 tribes of this common family. 



t Compare the third Avatar, where Prithivi complains to Yishnou, 

 with Davies' " Celtic Researches." Appendix, " Preidcevi," "Anmon." 

 Still more, No. 12, of ditto, page 563, where some lines appear to be 

 Etruscan. 



