22.

_Essay_, p.

82.
[164] _Peoples_ .-- See _Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria_, vol.ii.

p.
314, where the writer describes tombs sunk beneath a tumulus, about twenty-five or thirty feet in diameter, and also tombs exactly resembling the Irish cromlech, the covering slab of enormous size, being inclined "apparently to carry off the rain." In his account of the geographical sites of these remains, he precisely, though most unconsciously, marks out the line of route which has been assigned by Irish annalists as that which led our early colonizers to Ireland.

He says they are found in the presidency of Madras, among the mountains of the Caucasus, on the steppes of Tartary, in northern Africa, "_on the shores of the Mediterranean they are particularly abundant_," and in Spain.
[165] _Shells_ .-- Cat.