INDEX.
Abbeville, museum at, 16.
Abbot Millitus, Pope Gregory's letter to, 21.
Abd en Nar and Abd en Nour, 404.
Aberdeenshire circles, 202 et seq.
Aberlemnio, stone at, with cross, 268; date, 270; memorial of what, 270.
Abraham, stone set up by, 438.
Ac, import of termination, 329, 330; its prevalence in West of Fiance, 329; its coincidence with dolmens, 329; its occurrence in West of England, 330; names of cities with this termination in France, 328, 376.
Achemlock circle, 530.
Addington, groups at, 118; circles at, 119. See Aylesford.
Adil, Swedish king, defeats Snio, 279.
Africa. See Algeria, Tripoli. Its monuments may furnish key to solution of mysterious questions, 414.
African prince mentioned by Asoka, 498.
Age between exodus of Romans and Alfred, darkness of. 113-4; stones more eloquent than books then, 114.
Agra, tomb of Akbar at, 496.
Agricola, 20.
Ahmedabad, city of, 457.
Aix la Chapelle, decree of, 25.
Ajunta, importance of Vihara at. 501.
Akbar, sovereign of India, 459; tomb of, 47, 496.
Alajor, Talyot at, 435.
Aleutian Islands, route of peoplers of America, 516.
Alexander mentioned in edict of Indian prince, 498.
Alfred, 23-4; his victory at Ashdown, 123; how commemorated, 123.
Alaska, Hydahs in, 18.
Aleutejo, dolmen in, 378.
Algeria, no Druids in, 6; long ignorance as to its numerous dolmens, 395; researches of Messrs. Rhind, Christy, and M. Féraud, 395; Bon Moursug, 395; Setif, 396; Tiaret, 397; Tripoli, 397; their ordinary position, 397; Bazinas, 397; Chouchas, 398; dolmen on steps, 398; tumuli with lines between, 399; sepulchral stones, 399; plan and elevation of African tumulus, 400; dolmen with two circles, 400, 471; others on road from Bona to Coustantine, four cairns enclosed in squares, 402; analogy to examples in Scandinavia, 403; age of Algerian examples, 403; of what race, 403; Djidjeli, tombs near, with circle, 404; find there, ib.; their age, ib.; Sidi Kacem, dolmeu near, and inscription, 405; circle near Bona, 405; Algerian monuments contemporary with early Christians, 405-6; their general age, 406; who erected them, 406 et seq.; date of, 403; compared to Aveyron, 407.
Alignment, at Shap, 130; Carnac, Erdeven, St.-Barbe, 354 et seq.; two heads, 354; singular head of column, 355; Crozon, Kerdouadec, Carmaret, Leuré, Gré de Cojou, 368; Preissac, 368; Stouehenge, why made, 110-1; Sesto Calende, 391. See Avebury, Avenues, Beckhampton, Caithness.
Alkil, Danish chief, 279.
Allées couvertes ou grottes des Fées in France, 340 et seq., 358-9; at Lochmariaker, 365.
Alleth, battle at, 374.
Alphabetical writing, date of its introduction into Ireland, 189, 196, 271; interruption of use for centuries, 272.
Altars, 425.
Altmark, dolmen at, 301.
Alyattes, tomb of, 31.
Ambrius, convent of, 109.
Ainbrosius Aurelius said to have erected Stonehenge, and why, 106; forces a peace upon Saxons, 107.
America, North, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge; survey of Messrs. Squiers and Davis, 510; absence of rude-stone monuments, ib.; earth- works, American peculiarity, 511; enclosures for defence, extent of, ib.; inference from, ib.; sacred enclosures, peculiarity and number of, size and form of enclosures, ib.; Newark Works, ib.; whether residences of chiefs, 513; conical mounds, mounds of sacrifice, finds, ib.; Grave Creek mound, Miamisburgh mound, 514; temple mounds compared to Teocallis of Mexicans, ib.; difficulty of distinguishing between temple and palace, ib; were the mounds not civil? ib.; annual mounds, gigantic serpent form, doubt
