106 The Antiquities of the [No. 82, 



" earthen vase, placed in a cist, or case, cut in the solid chalk, and 

 " covered by the stone. In this manner each stone of the great 

 " crescent covered a vase, except the two large end stones, which 

 ** are therefore concluded to be altars. They are each about four 

 *' feet long, and of a conical shape, but one is placed upright, like a 

 " sugar-loaf, and the other is laid flat." 



" The vases, or urns, contained each the ashes of a human being, 

 ** mixed with charcoal, which also constituted a great part of the 

 *' substance of the barrow, and was probably the result of the funeral 

 *' piles. The urns thus buried under the stones of the great cres- 

 " cent were not eighteen in number, but only sixteen ; because at 

 " two different places it was found that two adjoining stones did not 

 " cover two urns, but that they concealed a third stone, beneath 

 " which was an urn. All the other stones, however, had each a 



separate vase. One of the three stones, separate from the crescent, 

 " as described above, also concealed an urn : the other two had 

 *' none ; but near one of them were found two rude cups ; one con- 

 *' taining a very rich earth, the other the bones of a bird. 



" There were also four urns found buried in the floor of flints, 



but not covered by stones. Three of them fell to pieces, but the 

 " remaining one was the largest of the whole assemblage, and differ- 

 *' ed from all the others in being placed with its mouth downwards. 

 *' This made a total of twenty-one urns, of which seventeen have 

 " been preserved, principally entire, but a few in large fragments." 



Chapter 7th. 



Hitherto I have paid little attention to the language of the Thauta- 

 wars. Mr. Muzzy thinks a connection would be found between it 

 and some Western language, a comparison with the Gothic, Celtic 

 and other ancient languages of Europe is a great desideratum ; but 

 should no affinity be found to prevail, I should not consider the 

 absence detrimental to my views, for this reason, that people of 

 Celto Scythic origin, having various languages have been widely dis- 

 persed. The Parthians and Britons for instance. 



Chapter 8th. 



I have recently lighted on the following passage in a paper on the 

 Druidical remains in England by Mr. Woodham. 



" Structures of this kind are in India known by the appellation 

 " of ' Pandoo-koolies we find like erections also in many other parts 



