Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of modern savages (1892)
Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 149
th tumuli and mounds.*In America we are told that they are to be numbered bythousands and tens of thousands; nor are they wanting inAfrica,-f- where the Pyramids themselves exhibit the most * Journeys in Baloochistan, Af- t See, for instance, Livingstonesghanistan, etc., vol. ii. p. 164. See Miss.… … Sepulchral Stone Circle. of them, indeed, are small, but some are very large, such as,for instance, those of Odin, Thor, and Freya, at Upsala (seeFrontispiece). Silbury Hill, the greatest in Europe, has aheight of one hundred and thirty feet, and covers five and ahalf acres. FIG 137
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