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declared that they had never seen one of such a description before. 

 This bangle and fragments of earthen vessels were sent in to the 

 Commissioner, and are now in the museum at Bangalore, but I would 

 beg to suggest that they should be sent on to the Government with 

 this report. The bangle is evidently of no modern date ; but as the 

 top stone of this Cromlech had been removed, and Wuddars had 

 evidently been at work in the locality during the past 50 to 100 years, 

 it is possible that the bangle had once belonged to some dusky beauty 

 of that tribe. It was found also only about a foot and a half below 

 the surface of the mound and just within the stone cist. 



I have failed to discover any of those concentric rows of upright 

 stones which have generally been found with such Cromlechs in cairns 

 elsewhere, but the fact of the Wuddars having been so long at work 

 in these localities would account for the disappearance of these stones 

 which were probably first discovered and removed. It is worthy of 

 note that these structures all face east and west. Very few of these 

 Cromlechs would appear to have had the segmental apertures found in 

 the double Cromlech, and in fact most of those now visible are much 

 smaller and would appear to be more like those short stone cists 

 containing cinerary urns, which have generally been found in the 

 sepulchral mounds both in Asia and in Europe, and even in Central 

 America. As remarked before by me, these banes abound with such 

 tumuli, some of which have evidently not been touched. It is in 

 such alone that we may expect to find still more interesting relics of 

 this almost unknown past period of the history of the world and of 

 our species, and I would earnestly request permission to push on these 

 excavations. Some of these tumuli would appear to run parallel with 

 each other, so that, when uncovered, these stone chambers would present 

 the appearance of streets. The discovery of pieces of charcoal and 

 fragments of apparently cinerary urns, would tend to show that the 

 conclusions drawn by modern archaeologists were correct, viz. that 

 these stone chambers were only used as sepulchral monuments. But 

 my assistant, Mr. Mackenzie, has suggested that it is an extraordinary 

 fact that, when such durable and lasting monuments to the dead are to 

 be found, no remains of the dwellings of these ancient Providian 

 races are visible in the same localities so as to throw still greater light 

 on the ethnical records of the past. Is it possible that these larger 



