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[p. 215] Prof. Douglas (Saturday Review, Nov. 24, 1883): "Whatever may have been their motive, the cup-markers showed a decided liking for arranging their sculpturings in regularly spaced rows." That cup marks are an archaic form of inscription was first suggested by Canon Greenwell many years ago. But more specifically adumbratory to our own expression are the observations of Rivett-Carnac (Jour. Roy. Asiatic Soc., 1903-515) That the Braille system of raised dots is an inverted arrangement of cup marks: also that there are strong resemblances to the Morse code. But no tame and systematized archaeologist can do more than casually point out resemblances, and merely suggest that strings of cup marks look like messages, because--China, Switzerland, Algeria, America--if messages they be, there seems to be no escape from attributing one origin to them--then, if messages they be, | accept one external origin, to which the whole surface of this earth was accessible, for them. Something else that we emphasize: That rows of cup marks have often been likened to footprints. But, in this similitude, their unilinear arrangement must be disregarded--of course often they're mixed up in every way, but arrangement in single lines is very common. It is odd that they should so often be likened to footprints: | suppose there are exceptional cases, but unless it's something that hops on one foot, or a cat going along a narrow fence-top, | don't think of anything that makes footprints one directly ahead of another--Cop, in a station house, walking a chalk line, perhaps. Upon the Witch's Stone, near Ratho, Scotland, there are twenty-four cups, varying in size from one and a half to three inches in diameter, arranged in approximately straight lines. Locally it is explained that