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The Antiquities of the 



[No. 33, 



the Neilgherries, viz. Bottles of liquid (a small brass bottle full of 

 s ome liquid was recently found in a cairn near Kotagherry) nippers 

 or tweezers to pull away hair, spoons, knives, nails, &c., and " nuts 

 of crystal" (I found in an urn two beads or nuts of cornelian.) 



Pomponius writes the Druids and ruling priests used to burn and 

 bury. 



Sir Thomas Browne affords another striking proof to ray theory. 



" Nor were they (the Scandinavians) confused or careless in dis- 

 posing the noblest sort, while they placed large stones in circle about 

 the urns they interred'^ 



, Chapter 5th. 



Without noticing the cairns, the remains of Scythicism found in 

 these hills, consist of, 



1. Single and double circles of stones enclosing an open area. 



2. The same enclosing smaller rings. 



3. Open temples consisting of a high wall of stones enclosing a 

 large altar. 



4. Monolithe altars and single stones encircled with rings of stones 

 and having slabs resting against their bases. 



5. Large spaces, enclosed by a wall, full of trees. 



6. Circular walls of considerable extent enclosing double and sin- 

 gle rings of stones. 



7. Barrows. 



8. Sacred groves. 



And my reasons for believing them to have belonged to the early 

 Thautawars are, 



1st. The claim of these people to them. 



2nd. They are nearly in every instance seated near to and con- 

 nected with a Thautawar village. 



3rd. The rehgion of the Thautawars is Scythicism and these are 

 monuments of Scythicism. 



4th. They differ wholly from any Hindoo religious edifices, and 

 there is no reason to believe any people but the Pandaver (Hindoos) 

 and the Thautawars were ever settled on these hills. 



5th. The absence of inscriptions or coins, with reference to the 

 fact that the Thautawars have no written language, and were unac- 

 quainted with the use of money, while the Hindoos had both. 



Arrived at this point I think it proper to recapitulate ni}-* grounds 

 for concluding the Thautawar religion to be Scythicism. 



