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INTERNATIONAL.
INDEX.
KERMARIO.

International Prehistoric Congress at Paris, 337.

Iolaus with Thespiadæ colonizers of Sardinia, 429.

Iorsala Farer or pilgrims, 244.

Iran and Turan or Aniran, of what these words the equivalents, 506.

Irby and Mangles, Captains, observe dolmens in Syria, 441.

Ireland, tomb-building in, 43; dolmens in, 45; external ditto, 46; menhirs in, 58; no symbolage in, 59; bluestones from, transported to England, 108; rude-stone monuments in, 175; best illustration of megalithic remains, ib.; obstruction of the study of Irish monuments, ib.; services of Dr. Petrie, ib.; materials for history of, ib.; copious literature, 176 (see Moytura); King Eochy, 178; Firbolgs or Belgians, 179; tradition of the "One Man," ib.; Queen Misgan Meave, 184-6; Dananns who? 188; King Nuada of the Silver Hand, 186; Fomorians, 186-7; Breas, 186; Balor of the Evil Eye, 187; the great Daghda, ib.; Fomorians and Dananns alleged to be of same Scandinavian race, ib.; their very early intercourse with Irish, 188; Dananns were Danes, ib.; chronology of early events, 188 et seq.; places of royal interment, 190; race of Crimthann, 132; introduction of alphabet, 189, 196; division into kingdoms, 189; early accounts of its peopling, ib.; Irish history doubtful until Cimboeth, ib.; burial-places of ancient kings, 190; first influx of civilization, when, according to Dr. Todd, 193 note; Oghams, 196; authentic history of Ireland, when commences, according to Petrie, ib.; legend of the Beds of Diarmid, 225; tradition as to (see Cemeteries); St. Colomba, 227; Iberians in Ireland, monuments of, 227; murder of Dathi by foster brothers, 233; barbarism of Irish before St. Patrick, 235-6; their civilization progressive, 236; stages of architecture, 237-8; marks of triple system of monuments, 238; importance of them to history, 238; age and sequence of its monuments, 237-8; circle-building race in, 274; dolmen-building ditto, 274, 381; Spanish migration to, Heremon, 381; where Spaniards settled, 382; date, ib. See Glen Columbkille.

Iron, when known to Greeks, Israelites, Etruscans, 35; argument from absence of iron in tombs considered, 37; when introduced into Denmark, England, Egypt, ib.; iron, early manufacture of, in India, 482; and now by Khassias especially, ib.

Iron pillar at Kutub, 481; date of, 482.

Italy, tomb-building in, 40; dolmen at Saturnia, 391-2; chambered tumuli, 392; hewn stones, ib.; Etruria, ib.; why dolmens not so uniform in Italy as in France and Scandinavia, 393; earliest colonists, the Pelasgi and Tyrrheni, in contact with merely stone-hewing peoples, ib.; reverence of Etrurians for dead, ib.; their effacement by more progressive races, ib.; Rome adopts and improves Etruscan architecture, ib.; and forces Spain and France to a more ambitious sepulture, 394; their relapse into rude-stone monuments, ib.

Iwallee, singular place of dolmen, 484.

Jacob, stone set up by, 438-9.

Jains succeeded Buddhists in India, 459.

James I. directs researches respecting Stonehenge, 3, 104.

Janssen, Dr., his work on Hunebeds, 319.

Jarl Ragnvald, his expedition, 244.

Jarls, Orcadian, how buried, 297.

Jeffrey of Monmouth cited, 88; account by, of Stonehenge, 106 and of Merlin, are justified, 412; his character as writer, 106.

Jellinge, King Gorm's tomb at, 245, 296 et seq.

Jersey, tumulus in, 51; circle, 52.

Jewurgi, cairns at, 471-2.

Jey Sing, observatories of, 7, 459.

John, St., Baptistery of, at Canterbury, erected, 22.

Jones, see Inigo.

Joshua, stone set up by, 438-40; flint instruments of circumcision interred with him, 440.

Joyce, Rev. Mr., on crosses, 488.

Juggernaut, temple of, 460.

Junies, remains there, 368.

Jutes, settle in and trade with Britain before Cæsar's time, 133.

Jutland, dolmens in, 301.

Kafr er Wâl, dolmen at, 441.

Kamarupa, Hindu kingdom, 466.

Karl Lofts, if circle there, 130.

Karumbers, 476 et seq.; originators of rude monuments in India, 478.

Katapur, cross and dolmen at, 486-7.

Kemble cited, 64, 73; as to historical value of poem of Beowulf, 120.

Kemp How, 130.

Kennet Avenue at Avebury, 63-4; called "stone row" in charter of Athelstan, 7; river, station of Saxons upon, 88; long barrow similar to Lethra, 283. See River Kennet.

Kens Low, 139; barrow, find at, 145.

Kent, division of, by Bede, 120.

Kent's Hole, 16.

Kerdouadec alignment, 367.

Kerland demi-dolmen, 336.

Kerlescant, 351, 356; long barrow opened, find, 356.

Kermario avenues, 350.