CYCLOPES are supposed by Pococke to be the Gucla-pes from the Jumna or Guckla-des. This derivation would designate them as a pastoral race, from Go, SANSK., a cow ; but their great irrigation works denote them an agricultural population. Such a race at some remote time occupied Baluchistan, and raised great irrigation structures similar to those in Greece, and in the Peninsula of India. At Bodegli is a, mound with Cyclopean substructures. Lieutenant Aytoun, in his Geological Report on a portion of the Belgautu Collectorate, given in Carter's Geological Papers on Western India, p. 392, mentions that certain gorges in the hills had been artificially bunded, and present one or two points of slight resem blance between the Pelasgi, the builders of the Cyclopean walls of Greece, Italy, etc., and the Ghorbasta builders of Baluchistan, suggesting that they might have been a kindred people, with kindred habits. The Pelasgi came from Asia, not from Asia Minor, not from Syria, not from Assyria, not from Persia, but probably from that birthplace of emigration, the tract north and north east of Persia.
The Ghorbasta builders probably came from the same tract, and were not Mekranees, nor Persians, nor Assyrians. The Pelasgi existed only a, few generations in Greece (about 250 years), before they were turned out by the Hellenes ; tbey must therefore have brought with them, when they entered the country, their propensity for building rnassive walls, and commenced their work almost immediately on arrival. It was probably the
same with the wall builders of Baluchistan ; they only remained in the country long enough to allow them to extend northward as far as Kelat, when, meeting with the Mulla pass, they debouched into the plains. Their art was a fully developed one before they arrived there to carry it out. The Pelasgi arrived in Greece about 1800 n.c. This date seems to accord roughly with the advent of the unknown Ghorbasta into Jhalawan. The Ghor basta structures, however, when compared with the Cyclopean remains of Greece, are slight, most roughly executed and insignificant ; yet they evince a like instinct and habit in two races which probably came originally from the same region. The tank at Cumburn, the Husain-Saugur tank at Secunderabad, the Oossoor lake or tank near Bangalore, are each about 7 miles in circum ference. Their date is not known. The Mir Alam lake at Hyderabad, constructed during a famine to provide food, cost 1130,000, and has a steamer on it ; and a great lake, formed in a famine by the damming up of the Goomti river, cost £1,500,000.—Dr. Cook in No. 6, Bon;bay Med. Transactions.