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brought in contact and then drawn apart, forming a little web 
between them which offers enough surface to the wind to be blown 
away, carrying out the thread with it. 
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GRAVE-MOUNDS AND THEIR. Contents.* — In this concise and 
remarkably interesting little volume, made doubly valuable by its 
489 wood cuts, which show that the author took pencil and en- 
graver to his work as well as his pen, pick, and spade, the student 
in archeology will find much to instruct and aid him in his labors. 
The author calls attention to the fact that the grave-mounds of 
most ancient date are found in the mountainous districts, while 
those of a later time, though in part associated with the earlier 
mounds, are spread throughout the country. 
In this country the term mound has been almost universally 
given to all our ancient tumuli, and to an American reader the 
multiplicity of British terms in common use for the same kind of 
ancient works is at first confusing. Hence, while the term barrow 
is in general use, tump is given as the synonyme in Gloucester- 
shire, koue in Yorkshire, and low in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, ete. 
The term low is so universal in some districts, that about two hun- 
dred places in Derbyshire alone have the affix of “low,” this affix 
being a sure indication that a ‘‘mound” exists or has existed in 
the immediate vicinity. 
In the second chapter our author gives an account of the con- 
struction of the mounds and the various modes of burial, both by 
inhumation' and cremation. In the former, the bodies were most 
usually placed in a contracted position, lying generally on the 
side with the hands in front of the face and the knees drawn up, 
though almost every other position of the body, such as sitting, 
kneeling, or extended, has been noticed. In burial by cremation, 
the bones left after the _ of the body were pinos tii up and 
* A Manual of Archæology, as exemplified in the Burials of the Celtic, the Romano- 
itish, and the Anglo-Saxon ~— By pple Jewitt, F.S.A., etc. With 
nearly five hundred illustrations. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1870. 12mo, pp. 
306, cloth, full gilt. 
