THE AOOLESTOME. 



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which antiquaries have classed under the title of Druidlc, some 

 of which appear to be natuial formations, but which have con- 

 tinued to be regarded with a mysterious reverence, from the 

 belief in their having been, in by-gone ages, adjuncts to super- 

 stitious worship ; notwithstanding all tradition of their object, as 

 well as of the people who may have used them, has passed away. 



The Agglestone may have been one of the loci consecrati set 

 apart by the Druids for civil as well as religious purposes. To 

 the Druids, in later times, succeeded the Bards, who, in like 

 manner, had their hill of legislature, or sacred mounty where 

 they, as ancient judges of the land, assembled to decide causes. 



JOHN H. AUSTIN, 



Bell-gable, Kimmeridge. 



