. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ing these sacred places seems to have been borrowed Iiy the Canaanites in imitationof the enclosure with which Moses surrounded Mount Sinai, in order to prevent the multi-tude from approaching too near the sacred mysteries. The number of stones composin this monument is variously given. In the subjoined account we follow Dr. Stiikely: — Stones. Great stones . 30 Hpistylia ;i() Inner circle 40 Vertical stones of outer ellipsis 10 Kpis
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ing these sacred places seems to have been borrowed Iiy the Canaanites in imitationof the enclosure with which Moses surrounded Mount Sinai, in order to prevent the multi-tude from approaching too near the sacred mysteries. The number of stones composin this monument is variously given. In the subjoined account we follow Dr. Stiikely: — Stones. Great stones . 30 Hpistylia ;i() Inner circle 40 Vertical stones of outer ellipsis 10 Kpist) lia to them h Inner ellipsis . Altar .... 11)1 •Stones within vallum .A l;irt;e table stoneDistant jiillar . . Another stone, supposed to have beenopposite the entrance Total . . Stones,•iJi1 1 UO Northwards frdm Stonelienge, at the distance of a few hundred yards, is a large single stone,which, at the period of its being placed there, has been by some thought to have markeda meridian line from the centre of the circle. 19. Fi(/. 6. is a view of the present state of this interesting ruin from the west. Mr. ^/^ _IL-. <^^^. Cunnington, in a letter to Mr. Higgins, gives the follow uig account of the stones whichremain of the monument: — The stones on the outside of the work, those com|)rising theoutward circle as well as the large (five) trilithons, arc all of that species of stone culled sarseii found in the neighbourhood; whereas the inner circle of small upright stones,and of the interior oval, are composed of granite, hornstone, &c., most ])robably pro-cured from some part of Devonshire or Cornwall, as I know not where such stones couldbe jirocured at a nearer distance. 20. Authors have in Stonelienge discovered an instrument of astronomy, and among themIMaurice, whose view as to its founders coincides with those of the writers already cited, andwith our own. We give no opinion on this point, but shall conclude the section liy ])lacingbefore the reader the
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