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464 INDIA. Chap. XIII.together, forming a trilithon, but then they apparently count as one. Major Austen mentions a set of five being erected in 1869 on the opposite side of the road to an original set of the same number with which an old lady had previously been honoured, in consequence of the services which after her death she had rendered to her tribe.[1]
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202. Menhirs and Tables. From Schlagintweit. 203. Turban Stone, with Stone Table. 204. Trilithon.
The origin of the stone tables or dolmens is not so clearly made out. Like the tomb stools, they frequently at least seem to be places of assembly. One, described by Major Austen, measured 30 feet 4 inches by 10 feet in breadth, and had an average thickness
- ↑ 'Journal Anthrop. Inst.' i. p. 126.
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