with which the picks were shappened. These tools were un- 
ubtedly used in the stone cutting operations, as there had appar- 
tly been no other work conducted in the vicinity,, were made of 
roundish masses or of water-worn bowlgders of harder varieties of 
lava not found on the site but brought from the valley below or 
from more distantlocalities. 
A lesson of the ruins. One of the great lessons to be learned 
from these remarkable remains relates to the raison d'etre of — 
existence. Contemplating the acauias of temples we realize the 
vast influence superstition has had upon the minds and achievements 
of the race. Here we behold the spectacle of a people not yet 
high in the scare of duteni having reached only ‘the upper stages 
ot barbarism, surpassing themselves, axoacates far beyond their 
Bas erate ot cwltars: tn one particular direction - the art that 
relates to and feeds upon: superstition. These people were probably 
content to live and rear their families in hovels and to transact 
‘the affairs of the community and state in a#@most humble halls, and 
the art of architecture would have slumbered for ages had it not 
