Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . d Merlin, by supernat-ural means, to bring from Ireland intoBritain. And that he might leave somefamous monument of so great a treasonto future ages, in the same order andart as they stood formerly, set them upwhere the flower of the British nationfell by the cutthroat practice of theSaxons, and where, under the pretenceof peace, the ill-secured youth of thekingdom, by murderous designs, wereslain. This story happ
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . d Merlin, by supernat-ural means, to bring from Ireland intoBritain. And that he might leave somefamous monument of so great a treasonto future ages, in the same order andart as they stood formerly, set them upwhere the flower of the British nationfell by the cutthroat practice of theSaxons, and where, under the pretenceof peace, the ill-secured youth of thekingdom, by murderous designs, wereslain. This story happily illustrates the com-pass and authenticity of mediaeval his-tory. It is Well known that Authenticity of the pillars composing the Srdmustratedruin of Stonehenge were hereby,taken from stone quarries in the neigh-borhood, so that no African giants wereneeded to bring them across the is also well established by an exami-nation of the mounds in the vicinitythat the structure belongs to a periodnot only earlier than the invasion ofHengist and his Saxon marauders, butlong anterior to the conquest by theRomans at the beginning of our is true that no mention is made. VIEW OF STONEHENGE. set them up on the plains of Kildare,not far from the castle of Naas. Thesestones, continues the story-teller,Aurelianus Ambrosius, King of the of Stonehenge, by name, in the Latinauthors, but Hecataeus, a Greek histo-rian, who flourished at Miletus about550 B. C, describes a magnificent cir- >m GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. mounds in con-nection •withStonehenge. Jf o cs< * GROUND PLAN OFDANISH CROMLECH, r temple, situated in what he calls The island of the Hyperboreans, overagainst Celtica, and the description isof a kind to warrant the conclusion thatthe edifice in question was no other thanStonehenge. Clustered around this great ruin ofprehistoric times are many tumuli, con-Extent of burial taining the dead and therelics which were buriedAviththem. No fewer thanthree hundred buria
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