Note 1 — FROM PENZANCE TO CARN GALVA: NOTEWORTHY OBJECTS BY THE WAY.

Another idea, in connection with them, may be suggested by what we have farther to state. A Cornish gentleman,1 who resided many years in various parts of India, and to whom we are grateful for much exact and curious information on various antiquarian subjects, informs us that he has, in many remote parts of India (where the most ancient and simple forms of Hindooism prevail), seen huge monuments of unhewn stone so like some of our cromlechs in their construction, that they always reminded him of our giants’ quoits, and his distant home on the Cornish hills. He says that in the granite districts, they were precisely similar in plan to our cromlechs; and in the slate districts the slabs were thinner and the construction more regular.