. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. considerablesegment which stands in the road. The enclosed part, in 1774,when this view was drawn, was sowed with corn, and it being thennearly ripe, many of the stones which had fallen down, were therebyhidden. The same ridiculous story is told of these stones, as of those atStonehenge, i. e. that it is impossible to count them, and that manypersons who have made the trial, could never find them amounttwic
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. considerablesegment which stands in the road. The enclosed part, in 1774,when this view was drawn, was sowed with corn, and it being thennearly ripe, many of the stones which had fallen down, were therebyhidden. The same ridiculous story is told of these stones, as of those atStonehenge, i. e. that it is impossible to count them, and that manypersons who have made the trial, could never find them amounttwice to the same number. It is added, that this was a holy place,and that Long Meg and her Daughters were a company of witchestransformed into stones, on the prayers of some saint, for venturing10 profane it; but when, and by whom, the story does not has tradition obscurely, and clogged with fable, handed downthe destination of this spot, accompanied with some of that venera-tion in which it was once undoubtedly held, though not sufficientlyto protect its remains from the depredations of avarice, the enclosureunci cuUivation of the ground bidding fair to destroy them. These i:. :????? ^ I wlMi ^ 459 These stones are mentioned by Camden, who vas either misin-formed or misreckoned their number; unless, which seems impro-bable, some have been taken away. At Little Salkeld (says he) there is a circle of stones, seventy-seven in number, each ten feet high ; and before these, at the entrance, is a single one by itself, fifteen feet high. This the common people callLong Aleg, and the rest, her daughters ; and within the circle are two heaps of stones, under which they say there arc dead bodies buried ; and, indeed, it is probable enough that this has been a monument* erected in memory of some victory. The history of the British and Druidical Antiquities having beenthoroughly investigated since Camdens time, these circles are nowuniversally agreed to have been temples and places
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