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a fourth, both prostrate on the ground in such a way as to in- 

 dicate that they probably fell from the result of earthquakes ; 

 or by stones ejected from the volcano at whose base they had 

 stood. Each figure has a groove down the back and they 

 had apparently stood on a flat pedestal, with their backs 

 towards one centre, with their faces more or less accurately 

 to the cardinal points of the compass. The features of all four 

 are of the same type of countenance ; but the race now living 





SIDE VIEW OF THE FACE OX ONE OF THE MONOLITHS. 



in this region did not form that model, and it is equally 

 beyond question that the Hindoo features are not represented. 

 It is not certain that the Hindoos, who, as it is well known, 

 settled in some parts of Sumatra at the time of their great oc- 

 cupation of Java about 1000 b.c. ever were in the Passumah 

 lands ; but if they ever were, there is no reason for suppos- 

 ing that they should depart from their wont in Java and else- 

 where, and figure in their sculptures the lineaments of another 

 race than their own. If these stones are not the work of 



