The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . onuments, naturally lead us to refer them both to amuch later period than that in which the singlecircles of smaller stones were formed,—and to onebordering on the commencement of regular architec-ture. It is probable that this period was but a fewcenturies prior to the subjugation of Britain by theRomans, and the conversion of its Pagan inhabitantsto the Christian faith :—at which time these places ofidolatrous rendezvous cea
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . onuments, naturally lead us to refer them both to amuch later period than that in which the singlecircles of smaller stones were formed,—and to onebordering on the commencement of regular architec-ture. It is probable that this period was but a fewcenturies prior to the subjugation of Britain by theRomans, and the conversion of its Pagan inhabitantsto the Christian faith :—at which time these places ofidolatrous rendezvous ceased to be erected in uprights and architrave of the exterior circleof Stonehenge presented to the eye of Inigo Jones soarchitectural an appearance, that he pronounced it tobe a temple of the rudest Tuscan order, erected to thesun, by the Romans. But besides the fact, that thereis not a sing-le instance of any such work being executedby that people, the evidences of its being truly Britishare too many and too strong to leave any room for adoubt respecting it, in the minds of those who are ac-quainted with the works of the ancient Britons. ^ 0,<i. j
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