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people, but it would probably bo safer to say only, that they were 

 indicative of a particular stage of civilization. It is curious that 

 in Cornwall, where monolithic remains of a somewhat similar 

 character are found, essentially the same local tradition often 

 attaches to them as that mentioned by Sir A. Phayre, namely, 

 that a party passing over the moor on some excursion was turned 

 into a group of stone pillars by the evil power. Clearly the tradi- 

 tion belongs to a late date, when all knowledge of the purpose of 

 the original structure was lost, and itself points to a certain ill in- 

 formed stage of civilization, which looks to supernatural agency to 

 account for anything lying outside the common experiences of life. 

 But the community of tradition does not necessarily imply com- 

 munity of race in the people who give rise to it and transmit it. 



Mr. Blocliman n said that similar stone-henges had been allud- 

 ed to as existing in Kashmir by Lt.-Col. N e w all in his paper on 

 the ' Temples of Razdan,' lately read before the Society. Col. 

 N e w a 1 1 mentioned especially a place called Bhadiakul near 

 which, as it would appear, extensive monuments exist of ' Druidical' 

 worship from times prior to the Buddhistic Era. 



Sir Richard Temple mentioned that those stone circles 

 were found almost throughout India. 



Dr. Stoliczka said that Sir John Lubbock in his last 

 edition of the " Pre-historic times," mentions the occurrence of these 

 stone circles throughout Asia, from the borders of Russia down to the 

 1'acilic seas. He describes and figures several of them as " sepulchral 

 stone circles" of the so-called megalithic period. 



II. — Observations on a Sanad, granted by Shah 'A'lam to Patau 

 Pitya'mbab Mitra Baha'dujl, — hi/ H. Blochmann, Esq., M. A.' 



I have been asked by Babu Rajendralala Mitra toexhibit 

 a Sanad granted by Shah 'Alain to Rajah Pityambar Mitra 

 Bahadur, one of the Babu's ancestors. 



The Sanad is of the kind called Farmdn i Sabti (^^ uU^i, Ain 

 i Aibari, p. 2G1, No. 2) and confers upon the Rajah 14 villages 

 in the Parganah of Eaweli i Qahabad, generally called Chad, the 

 revenue of which [villages] amounts to 21891 rupees. The grant 

 specifics an Altamghd tenure for eyerfin'dm i altamgha', na&alan ba'da 



