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Excerpt from Pre-Historic Remains in the Lake District: A Paper Read Before the Keswick Literary and Scientific Society, January 6th, 1879 Best known. The most remarkable, he says, of all the Scottish sepulchral monuments are the stone tumuli or cairns, many of which shew great labour and skill and enclose megalithic cists and galleries corresponding in form to nearly every class of earthen tumulus or chambered barrow. It undoubtedly belongs to the stone period, and appears to have been one of the most distinguished monuments throughout every successive period prior to the revolutions effected by Roman civilisation and the introduction of Christianity. The cairns in the old and new world correspond in form and materials, but it is by an intelligent comparison of their various contents that we are able to discriminate between races diverse in physical form, in sepulchral rites, and in style and development of their distinctive arts, to determinate a relative if not a positive chronology. The largest and most interesting one that I have met with is upon the summit of Knock na - Rea, a few miles from the town of Sligo. These large kinds are not represented in the Lake District. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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