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and described at various times by Colonel Glasfurd, Colonel Godfrey Pearse, 

 K. H. A., and Mr. J. J. Carey, c. E. The late Rev. Stephen Hislop, 

 well known for his interest in all antiquarian subjects, accompanied Sir 

 Richard Temple, the then Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, on 

 an exploration of the Bori remains during the rainy season of 1864, 

 and it was then that occurred the accident which resulted in Mr. Hislop's 

 lamented death. 



Similar barrows were found in the Nizam's territory and in Madras by 

 the late Colonel Meadows Taylor, c. s. i., and an interesting account of 

 that officer's researches, by which the similarity of the remains found in 

 India and in Europe is clearly demonstrated, was published in the Journal 

 of the Royal Irish Academy. The Journal of the Asiatic Society also con- 

 tains descriptions by Colonel Dalton, c. s. I., of similar grave mounds and 

 circles in the hilly country of Chutia Nagpore, which in many of its 

 conditions resembles the districts of the old Nagpore province. 



The most extensive of the many groups of this class of tumuli that 

 are found scattered over the district of Nagpore is situated near Junapani, 

 a hamlet lying about 5 miles to the west of the civil station of Nagpore, on 

 the high road to Katole. The proximity of these barrows to Nagpore has 

 marked them out for careful investigation, and they have been visited and 

 opened at various times by the late Rev. S. Hislop, Mr. Henry Danger- 

 field, c. E. and Mr. Hanna, c. E. No detailed account of the discoveries 

 has as yet been published. The following notes refer chiefly to some explora- 

 tions made as far back as the cold weather of 1867 by Mr. Alfred Lyall, 

 c. s., then Commissioner of the Nagpore S. Division, Mr. Blanford, r. K. s. 

 and myself. 



From the people of the neighbourhood, and even from the Brahmans 

 and other learned persons of Nagpore, who speak with authority on the 

 ancient history of the province, no satisfactory information regarding the 

 tribes who constructed these barrows is to be obtained. Some will tell you 

 the story that these mounds are the work of giants, or of the Gaolees or 

 Shepherd kings, regarding whose rule in Central India, at a period prior to 

 the Aryan invasion, a deep-rooted tradition exists. That the circles are very 

 old, the condition in which they are now found distinctly shews, and the 

 remains discovered therein leave no doubt that they were once the burial- 

 places of a people of whom these circles are now the only trace that remains 

 to us. 



The southern slope of a line of low bare basaltic hills, which rise just 

 beyond the village of Junapani, and which form the chief feature in the 

 scenery of Nagpore and its neighbourhood, is covered with these barrows. 

 The largest group consists of 54 tumuli. A smaller group situated on an 

 adjacent spur, at about 300 yards from the main body, contains but 10 



