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living ? 4. Are they put up to commemorate battles, murders, 
accidents, or other historical events ? 5. To record journeys,, 
discoveries, or conquests ? 6. In honour of, or to propitiate, 
deities ? or to commemorate religious festivals, miracles, or 
other events connected with religion ? 7. Are large conical 
mounds or cairns ever erected for these or similar purposes ? 
8. Are any objects buried in such mounds, apart from human 
remains ? 9. Any figures cut in the turf, upon the sides of 
hills, such as figures of men and animals ? 10. Any mounds 
in the form of saurians, snakes, or other animals ? and what 
do they signify? 11. Are any objects buried in the foun¬ 
dations of buildings or beneath landmarks ? 
No. LXXL—TOPOGRAPHY. 
{See also LXVIII. Communications.) 
1. What boundaries are there? how are they marked? 
2. What are the names of places or routes followed by 
the natives ? 3. What foreign slaves or traders are there ? 
and what routes can they describe ? 4. What geographical 
beacons or landmarks are there ? 5. What seas are known ? 
and what is said of the land beyond them? 6. How do the 
natives account for the sources of rivers and the formation 
of hills, valleys, rocks, &c. ? 7. What generic names have 
they for the natural forms of land and water? 8. What is 
their idea of the form of the universe ? 9. What account do 
they give of the history of creation ? 10. Give drawings of 
any native maps, and state whether they are done by the 
eye or by measurement. 
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