. Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing. . d by WBvrne&TMiwfljmd . Thrawn byTHisam c STONE H E N G E . ;mAon.:rulifoA*dMtfa4crdirtc&.iFt&.*& *•:■ \~. ••-<■- -• < STONEHENGE. STONEHENGE. The remains of this extraordinary work of antiquity is fituated upona rifing ground about fix miles north of Salifbury, in the Lordfhip ofLittle Ambrefbury. The various conjectures and hypothecs concern-ing the origin and ufe of this wonderful Structure have fallen, beforethe learned, laborious, and accurate inves
. Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing. . d by WBvrne&TMiwfljmd . Thrawn byTHisam c STONE H E N G E . ;mAon.:rulifoA*dMtfa4crdirtc&.iFt&.*& *•:■ \~. ••-<■- -• < STONEHENGE. STONEHENGE. The remains of this extraordinary work of antiquity is fituated upona rifing ground about fix miles north of Salifbury, in the Lordfhip ofLittle Ambrefbury. The various conjectures and hypothecs concern-ing the origin and ufe of this wonderful Structure have fallen, beforethe learned, laborious, and accurate investigation of this place byDr Stukely -, from whofe work, upon that fubjecl:, the following ac-count has been extracted. He has proved, by a variety of arguments,that it was a Britifh temple, in which the Druids officiated, and hasconjectured from a calculation of the variation of the magneticcompafs, which he fuppofes was ufed in the difpofition of this work,that it muft have been erected about 420 years before Julius Caefar in-vaded Britain. He fays, that it was their Metropolitan Temple in thisiiland, and was called by them, Ambers, or Main Ambers, which figni-fies Anointed Stones, that is, confecrated or facred
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