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Mr. Squier also mentions that many stone structures exist in 

 Peru, corresponding with the so-called Cyclopean monuments of Italy. 

 He describes many sun-circles, some composed of simple upright 

 stones, others haying in addition a regular causeway of slabs, form- 

 ing a platform of stone more or less hewn and fitted together. 



In the ancient town of Chicuito, a singularly fine and massive 

 rectangular monument exists, measuring 65 feet on each side. The 

 author considers this to be the most advanced megalithic structure 

 in Peru, and proposes in a future work to illustrate it more fully. 

 When the whole of Mr. Squier's drawings are published, he believes 

 all students of these archaic monuments will agree with him, that 

 there exist in Peru and Bolivia, high up among the snowy Andes, 

 the oldest forms of monuments, sepulchral and otherwise, known to 

 mankind, exact counterparts in character of those of the "old 

 world," having a common design, and all of them the work of the 

 same peoples found in occupation of the country at the time of 

 the conquest, their later monuments being developed forms of those 

 by their ancestors, and the earliest the productions of primitive man 

 in all parts of the world, and not derivative. 



Mr. Squier has thus furnished another admirable illustration of 

 the well-established law that " man under analogous circumstances 

 will act in a similar manner irrespective of time or space." 



Stone Implements from Burmah. — Mr. W. Theobald, jun., of 

 the Indian Geological Survey, has communicated some notes on the 

 stone implements of Burmah, to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 

 The implements are curious as differing in form and type, not only 

 from anything found in India, but from anything hitherto de- 

 scribed from any part of Europe, though any implement yet found 

 in India has its precise analogue in Europe. These implements 

 are not only singular in form, but also in the material out of which 

 they are manufactured; being fashioned either of basalt or some 

 schistose rock, quite unlike anything met with in the district where 

 the implements occur : a fact which seems to indicate that they were 

 brought down from Upper Burmah, where such implements are 

 common, by the original settlers of the country. The same super- 

 stition which connects these implements with the " thunderbolt " 

 prevails in Burmah, where they are called " mogio," or thunder- 

 bolts. Curious traditions prevail as to the virtues possessed by 

 these heaven-born stones : such, for instance, as preserving from 

 lightning, fire, shipwreck; conferring invulnerability upon the 

 wearer; great medicinal virtues, a chip administered internally 

 curing inflammation of the liver ; it is also a specific for oph- 

 thalmia, &c. The types of these Burmese instruments described 

 by Mr. Theobald are: — 1. A rough, stout, wedge-shaped instru- 

 ment, closely resembling the better finished specimens of flint- 

 hatchets, of the type which occurs in the Danish kjokkenmoddings. 



