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lie saw the engravings in Sir James Simpson's work. 

 He was then immediately struck by the further extraordinary re- 

 semblance between the so-called " cup marks" on the monoliths 

 surrounding the Barrows in England, and the marks on the trap 

 boulders which encircled the Barrows near Nagpur. Indeed, if the 

 members interested would be so good as to compare the sketch of the 

 Barrows and cup marks given in Sir James Simpson's book, 

 with the tracing laid before the meeting of the " cup marks" on one 

 of the Barrows at Junapani, near Nagpur, this extraordinary resem- 

 blance would at once be apparent. The identity between the shape 

 and construction of the tumuli, and between the remains found in 

 the tumuli of the two countries had already been noticed, and now 

 here was a third, and still more remarkable point, the discovery 

 on these tumuli of markings which corresponded exactly with the 

 markings found on the same class of tumuli in Europe. He would 

 not trouble the meeting now with any theories founded on this 

 extraordinary resemblance. A paper containing a full account of the 

 discoveries, with sketches of the tumuli, the remains found therein, 

 and the markings on the stones would soon be published, and all 

 who took any interest in the subject would find therein such in- 

 formation as he was able to give. The subject of the similarity of 

 the pre-historic remains of the Deccan and Northern Europe had also 

 been treated of, most exhaustively, by Colonel Meadows Taylor 

 in a paper which was doubtless familiar to most of the members. 

 But the " cup markings" to which allusion had been made above, 

 had not, he believed, been noticed before, and they formed, he 

 would submit, another and very extraordinary addition to the mass 

 of evidence which already existed in favor of the view, that a 

 branch of the nomadic tribes who swept, at an early date, over 

 Europe, penetrated into India also. 



These tumuli were to be traced from Southern India, through 

 the Deccan, to Nagpur. He had not as yet been able to ascertain 

 whether they were found in the country lying between Nagpur 

 and the Punjab. But on the frontier they were met with in 

 large quantities, and from thence they could be traced, as if marking 

 the line of progress of some great tribe, through Central Asia and 

 Russia into Northern Europe. 



