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living ? 4. Are they put np 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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