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places of the same class of people, who for very good reasons had, in 
different parts of the country, to make use of different materials, on the. 
same principle that an engineer adapts his class of work to the stone found 
in the locality in which he is engaged. 
Col. Meadows Taylor, in his paper already alluded to, has placed side 
by side, in his sketch, barrows, examined by him near Alnwick in Northum- 
berland, and the tumuli of the Dekhan of India, explored by him in 1851 ; 
and it will be seen that, in nearly every respect, these burial-places are 
counterparts of one another. What has been said regarding the Dekhan 
remains and those found in Great Britain, applies with equal force to the 
tumuli of Junapani and the European; and Mr. Kipling’s drawing, from 
my sketch, of a barrow near Nagpur, given in Plate III, and one near 
Alnwick in Northumberland, figured by the late Col. Meadows Taylor in 
the paper already referred to, will show, most distinctly, the striking resem- 
blance between the tombs in England and in India. 
This interesting circumstance was noticed some years ago by Major- 
General Cunningham, c. §. 1, 0. I. E., of the Royal Engineers, who in the 
preface to his description of the Bhilsa Topes thus refers to it— 
“To the Indian antiquary and historian, these discoveries will be, I am 
willing to think, of very high importance, while to the mere English reader 
they may not be uninteresting, as the massive mounds are surrounded by 
mysterious circles of stone pillars, recalling attention at every turn to the 
early earthworks or barrows, and the Druidical colonnades of Britain, 
“ In the Buddhistical worship of trees displayed in the Sanchi bas-reliefs, 
others, I hope, will see (as well as myself) the counterpart of the Druidical 
and adopted English reverence for the oak. In the horse-shoe temples of 
Ajanta and Sanchi many will recognise the form of the inner colonnade at 
Stonehenge. More, I suspect, will learn that there are Cromlechs in India 
as well as in Britain, that the Brahmans, Buddhists and Druids all believed 
in the transmigration of the soul, and the Celtic language was undoubtedly 
derived from the Sanserit &c.” 
The circumstance of the remarkable similarity in the shape of the 
tumuli being borne in the mind, the next point of resemblance is the posi- 
tion in which the barrows are found. Col. Meadows Taylor particularly 
notices, that, both in Europe and in India, these burying-places are situat- 
ed on the southern slope of the hill, the sunny side in fact, and this cir. 
cumstance has already been noticed in regard to the grouping of the 
Junapani barrows. 
SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE REMAINS FOUND IN THE INDIAN Barrows 
AND THE CONTENTS OF THE Barrows ty Europe. 
If these two points have been established, then the third point of re- 
semblance is in the remains buried in the tombs. Passing from the pot- 
