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(Gr.) 
“ M. Hamy, d’accord ici avec M. Pruner Bey, considore comme la race 
speciale des cavernes de Perigord comme la plus civilis4e de cette epoque, 
celle a qui Ton doit les dessins et les sculptures, la race petite et brachy- 
cephale, qui dans ces caracteres anatomiques presente les plus etroites 
analogies avec les populations hyperboreens, des Esquimaux et des 
Tchoukchis. Le rapprochement est d’autant plus remarquable et seduisant 
qu’on retrouve encore aujourd’hui chez ces populations, dans leur habitations 
actuelies, sous les glaces du pole, identiquement les memes mceurs, les memes 
usages, les memes instruments, que chez nos troglodytes de l’age du renne, et 
chez les Tchoukchis le meme instinct naturel de dessin qui frappait il y a 
cinquante ans le voyageur Cheris.” — Lenormant, L' Homme fossile, p. 43. 
(H.) 
The use of these megalithic structures in many cases for tombs does not 
invalidate their having also been regarded as temples. Up to the eighth or 
ninth century the descendants of the Ssabians used to make pilgrimages to 
the three largest pyramids, which they (erroneously) considered to have been 
tombs of their ancestors. They worshipped the spirit supposed to reside in 
them, and sought knowledge of future events. In like manner, a work 
published in 1848 * records, “ A species of divination is still practised at 
Arthurstone, by the neighbouring rustic maidens, who have little idea that 
they are perpetuating the rites of Druidism, and the mysteries of Eleusis 
in their propitiatory offering. At midnight of the full moon, if a maiden 
deposit in the sacred well beneath, a cake of milk, honey, or barley meal, 
and then on hands and knees crawl three times round the cromlech, she will 
see, if ‘ fancy free/ the vision of her future lord ; if her affections are 
engaged, the form of the favoured youth will stand before her fearfully bound 
to answer truly her questions as to his sincerity.” Arthurstone is the name 
of a very remarkable cromlech on Cefn Bryn, near Swansea. It is, according 
to Camden, a vast unwrought stone, probably about twenty tons weight, 
supported by six or seven others that are not above four feet high. It was 
called Maen Cette, or the Stone of Ked, and is commemorated in the Triad. 
“ Of* the three great labours of Britain, the first was lifting the stone 
of Ketti ; the second, building the work of Emrys (Stonehenge) ; 
the third, raising the Mount of Assembly” (or Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire). 
* Tales of the Cymry. By James Motley. Swansea and London. 
