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Mr. H. E i v e t t-C a r n a c, in exhibiting these specimens of iron 

 and other implements fonnd in tnmnli near Nagpdr, observed that 

 he would not trouble the members with any lengthened description 

 of the tumuli from which these remains had been obtained. De- 

 tailed accounts of the Cromlechs, Kistvaens, and Barrows of Central 

 and Southern India had, from time to time, appeared in the Society's 

 Journal, and in the Journals of the Bombay and Madras Societies, 

 and the existence and character of these remains were doubtless 

 well known to many gentlemen present. He would, however, de- 

 sire to remind the meeting of the interesting point noticed by 

 Colonel Meadows Taylor, who examined many Barrows in 

 the Deccan, and who on his return to England visited and excavated 

 some of the old tumuli in the North of England, and found an 

 extraordinary resemblance to exist between the remains in India 

 and in Europe. 



Colonel Meadows Taylor in his paper, read before the 

 Royal Irish Academy,* had brought out in a most striking manner, 

 the perfect similarity that exists between the Barrows and Crom- 

 lechs of the Deccan, and the tumuli of Western and Northern 

 Europe. Nagpur is situated on the eastern border of the trap 

 formation of the Deccan, and here, where the stone most ready to 

 hand consists of basalt, the tumuli are found in the shape of 

 mounds surrounded by a single or double row of trap boulders, and 

 similar in shape and construction to the well known Barrows of 

 Scotland, the North of England, and other parts of Europe. Fur- 

 ther to the East of Nagpur on the sandstone formation, the form 

 of tumuli changes, and Cromlechs or Kistvaens, similar to the 

 " Kitscoty House" of Aylesford take the place of the Barrows. 



And it is not only in the shape of the tumulus that the most 

 extraordinary identity is to be traced between the prehistoric 

 remains of India and Europe, but in the manner in which the 

 bodies are buried in the urns and in the ornaments, and 

 weapons placed with the urns within the tomb, the same striking 

 resemblance is to be traced between the discoveries made in both 

 countries. The specimens before the meeting were, Mr. B. i v e 1 1- 



* See the papers of Colonel Meadows T a y 1 o r, C. S. I., in the Jonrnal 

 of the Royal Irish Academy, and in that of the Ethnological Society. 



