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the brothers of one family is common to the Thautawars, and to the 

 Buddhists of Tibet. 



2. The suspension of a bell 'in the places of worship is found 

 among the Thautawars and the Buddhists. 



3. The priests of the Thautawars may resign the sacerdotal office 

 at pleasure, an usage prevailing amongst the Buddhists. 



4. The Thautawars have two classes of priests, so have the Bud- 

 dhists of Tibet. 



5. The pointed sacred dairy of the Thautawars in some respects 

 resembles the temples of the Buddhists. 



6. The practice of burning and burying prevails both amongst the 

 Thautawars and the Buddhists. 



7. The veneration for particular mountain peaks is common to 

 both. 



8. The villages of the Thautawars have a striking resemblance to 

 those in Ceylon. 



9. The Thautawars have a tradition that their ancestors were 

 subjects of Ravannah with whom they fled before Ramah. This 

 Ravannah according to the Hindoo accounts ruled in Ceylon. Hark- 

 ness referring to this tradition states his impression that the Thauta- 

 wars borrowed it of the Hindoos. 



10. The Thautawars adore the sun ; and Buddha under the name 

 of Akabandhu is regarded by his sect as the kinsman of the sun. 



But singular to relate these are amongst the conspicuous points 

 whereon I have based my theory of the identity of the Thautawars 

 with the Celto Scythians : thus I have shown that Polyandria pre- 

 vailed amongst our Celtic ancestors in Britain. 



That the bell was an object of superstitious regard amongst the 

 Celto Scythians who buried it in their graves. Speed in his chroni- 

 cle represents an ancient Briton with a lance in his hand to the end 

 of which was fastened a bell, and the custom of hanging bells in 

 churches in Europe appears to have been derived from the ancient 

 usages of the earliest inhabitants. 



It has been seen that the Celts burnt their dead. 



The resemblance between the Thautawar sacred dairy or temple 

 and the ancient Celtic houses has been pointed at. 



The resemblance between the Singalese villages and those of our 

 Celtic ancestors has been considered so striking as to induce many 

 learned men to declare some connection must have subsisted between 

 the inhabitants of Ceylon and the ancient people of Britain : an 



