height, and is interior to the ditch. The entrance through this line of circumvallation is on the north-east, and is marked by a bank and ditch called the Avenue, which leads directly from it, and separates into two branches at the distance of a few hundred yards. Approaching Stonehenge by this Avenue, the attention is first attracted by an immense rude stone called the Friar's Heel, which is now in a leaning position, and measures about 16 feet in height. Just within the vallum is another stone lying the ground. It is 21 feet 2 inches in ngth, of which 3 feet 6 inches appear to have been formerly under ground when it stand upright. It is exactly 100 feet disand from the former, and as much from the entside of the outermost circle of the moment. The circumference of this dcle is about 300 feet. It was composed riginally of 30 upright stones, of which 17 tstanding; but there are now no w than 6 imposts. Each impost has mortices in it, to correspond with tons on the tops of the vertical stones. The imposts were connected together, so ma continued series of architraves. The uprights in this circle differ from each other in their forms and sizes, but their height is from 13 to 15 feet, and circumference nearly 18 feet. At the e of 8 feet 3 inches from this outer title is an interior row, which it appears sted, in its original state, of 40 upstones. These are much smaller, and e irregular in their shapes, than those the outermost one, and also differ from in species. The number standing is 8, but there are remains of 12 others ng on the ground. Within these two circles are arranged the two elliptical of stones, the outermost of which contes the grandest portion of Stonehenge. This is not a perfect ellipsis, but rather thirds of that figure, being open at one It was formed of five distinct pairs of s, or two large upright stones, with, and laid over them as an impost. The trilithon was placed in the centre, ite to the entrance,and measured, when ding, exclusive of the impost, 21 feet 6 es in height; that next it on each side about 17 feet 2 inches, but the extremes ot more than 16 feet 3 inches. A ive rise thus appears to take place height of the trilithons of this ps from east to west, and a degree of arty pervading its structure, above appears in the other parts of the mo

The stones are also more regular their shapes, and carefully formed, than the outer circle. The interior oval

isted of 19 uprights, without imposts.

than those in the corresponding circle, and incline to a pyramidal form. The Altar Stone, as it is usually called, occupies the interior of this oval, and may be regarded as the centre or keystone of the whole temple. It measures 15 feet in length, and is almost covered by the two fallen stones of the great trilithon. The other stones belonging to the monument are situated close to the vallum, and within it one on the south-east side, and the other on the north-west side. The total number of stones of which Stonehenge, in its complete state, was composed, appears to have been 109, of which the outer circle contained 30, the second or inner circle 40, the first ellipsis 15, and the second ellipsis 19. The remaining 5 are the altar stone, the three stones adjoining the agger, and the large stone in the Avenue. The stones in the outer circle and outer ellipsis, with the stone in the Avenue, and those adjoining the vallum, are all of a pure fine grained compact sandstone. The second circle and the small oval consist of a fine grained grinstein, interspersed with black hornblende, feldspar, quartz, &c. The slab or altar stone is dif ferent from all these, being of a very fine grained calcareous sandstone, which strikes fire with steel. The area of Stonehenge has, as may readily be supposed, excited the attention of the curious in a high de gree, and has been examined with care by different antiquaries, but no discoveries of importance have been made within it. The surrounding plain, however, is covered with a profusion of barrows, unparalleled in any spot of similar extent in England, and probably in the world. Many of these were filled with burnt bones and entire skeletons, and with various relics of British art. Plans and descriptions of Stonehenge have been published by Inigo Jones, at the desire of James I.; also by Smith, Stukely, and Wood, the two latter of which, it is thought, are the most accurate. Various opinions also, and conjectures and hypotheses, have been formed as to the origin or object of this singular monument; but nothing very decisive seems to have been ascertained. The building seems very probably to have been intended for a Druidical temple; but its founders, or the date of its erection, or, above all, the process by which such enormous masses of stone were conveyed to this desolate spot, and raised into their respective situations, are buried in profound obscurity.

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in the county of Devon. It is situated, be

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This

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