. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Diluvial knives.* Besides the axes and knives, there were still other specimens ofwrought silex and sandstone, which appear to have been used assymbols or signs connected with the rites of religion. Some of thesewere probably the original forms or models of the Celtic stones, sowidely known ; viz., cromlechs, dolmens, lichavens, &c. They certainlyhave the same shapes, and it is not easy to assign
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Diluvial knives.* Besides the axes and knives, there were still other specimens ofwrought silex and sandstone, which appear to have been used assymbols or signs connected with the rites of religion. Some of thesewere probably the original forms or models of the Celtic stones, sowidely known ; viz., cromlechs, dolmens, lichavens, &c. They certainlyhave the same shapes, and it is not easy to assign any other use ororigin to them. Generally pyramidal or cubic in form, they are found,with little variation, from the oldest diluvian to the Celtic period, Fiq. 227. Fio. 228.
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