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Code, and the recent arrangements for communicating signals to troops at 

 night, by short and long flashes of lamps, specially adapted to the purpose, 

 and by day by the sun -telegraph, will perhaps agree, that it is not altogether 

 impossible, that these marks may have some, as yet hidden, signification. 

 The Agham writing consists, I understand, of a combination of long and 

 short strokes. This writing is found chiefly on sandstone, on which it 

 would not be difficult to cut out long strokes with a chisel. On hard 

 trap, however, it would be found much easier to make " cup-marks," by 

 working a chisel round and round, than to cut strokes ; and is it impossi- 

 ble, that, perhaps, on the trap boulders, the " cups," large and small, took 

 the place of the long and short strokes of the sandstone lettering, in the 

 same way that the barrows took the place of Cromlechs in the localities 

 in which sandstone was not procurable ? Or that, if this theory is unte- 

 nable, the marks denote the age of the deceased or the number of his 

 children, or the number of the enemies slain by the warrior, whose remains 

 are buried in the tomb encircled by the stone ? 



"Whatever conclusion may be arrived at regarding the possible correct- 

 ness of any of the above suggestions, I think it will be generally admitted, 

 that the four points of resemblance noticed above as existing between the 

 remains found in this country and in Europe are of more than common 

 interest. 



The sketches will shew that (I) the shape of the tumuli in India and 

 in Europe is the same. 



(II) The barrows in India and in Europe always face towards the 

 south. 



(III) The remains found in the Indian barrows resemble almost 

 exactly the remains dug out of similar burial-places in Europe. 



(IV) The cup-marks on the boulders which surround the Indian 

 tombs are identical with the marks found on the stones placed around the 

 same class of tumuli in Europe. 



The inferences to be drawn from these points will be noticed in a later 

 paper. 



