This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of this nature were much prized, and carried about on the person. The manufacture of celts gradually increased in perfection. The earliest specimens had no polish, but to some of the later ones, in spite of the hardness of the material, a very high degree of finish has been given. In Captain Lukis' collection is a most ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...of this nature were much prized, and carried about on the person. The manufacture of celts gradually increased in perfection. The earliest specimens had no polish, but to some of the later ones, in spite of the hardness of the material, a very high degree of finish has been given. In Captain Lukis' collection is a most beautiful and typical celt of this kind; it is made of a very hard kind of stone, deeply grooved on either side, and highly polished. The Comte de Limur, a well-known French antiquarian, has said of some of the Indian celts, that they so closely resemble in this respect those dug out of the tumuli at Carnac and other parts of Brittany, that had they not been marked out for him, he would not have been able to distinguish the one from the other. One or two partly polished celts have been found in the South Mirzapur district in India. They are about the length of the forefinger, and resemble in shape and size a jade knife from the Lake dwellings of Constance. This is now in the Indian Museum for comparison with the Indian types. Sometimes a number of ordinary celts are found in India, heaped up near or beneath a pipal tree; these the owners are said to readily part with, but they will not give up any which they have decorated with colour. It is well known that the Buddhists of Western Tibet and of the Lahaul valley make walls of stones at the entrances to their villages; they are styled Manis, and are occasionally a quarter of a mile in length, but never more than four feet in height, and the same in width. The natives of the Hangrang district in the Satlaj valley, and wherever Buddhism prevails in the Western Himalayas (to which part only our knowledge extends), invariably pass these heaps of stone so as to have them on their right hand. Even w...
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