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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. Ko 95., Oct. 24. '57. 



STONEHENGE. 



Being lately at Wyld's Great Globe Exhibition, 

 I noticed in that strange Turkish gallery, and the 

 more strongly from the contrasts — which is one 

 important point of this, as of the Crystal Palace 

 arrangements — a model of the remains of Stone- 

 henge, and another, its restoration. This last 

 promptly supplied a solution of the great question 

 to which I had promised myself a serious appli- 

 cation some day. 



The five larger shrines or tri-liths, and the 

 two smaller, enclosing a circle of upright stones 

 and one recumbent ; the peculiar divisions of the 

 circle embracing all these; and the structure of 

 the third and outermost circle, leave no question 

 as to the date of the work, which its phonetic lin- 

 guisticism assigns to the nineteenth century of 

 the world ; nor as to the race, which at the same 

 period crossed over in seven — i.e. nine — divisions 

 from Africa to America, leaving one, eighth — i.e. 

 tenth — at Carthage : as shown in various inscrip- 

 tions of theirs, at Carthage, Wejh, the Orinoco, 

 Yucatan, both in hieroglyphic and alphabetically 

 written characters. The Mississippi mounds and 

 Amesbury Serpent are evidently on the same am- 

 phoneidal principle. 



The Druids, to whom Stonehenge has been 

 referred, seem, as " grove-worshippers," and " cul- 

 tivators of mystery," descendants, perhaps dege- 

 nerated from, the Idan-thur'-si : perhaps the second 

 or military class of these ; and forming, as such, 

 the learned class among the Cumru or Welsh ; 

 from the earliest ages a purely military caste. 



To the Stonehenge period must also be referred 

 the White Horse of Marlborough Downs ; as the 

 Ek-Sos, or Hyc-Sos, not peculiar to Egypt and 

 Manetho, Guelfi, Hanover, or Argippaei of He- 

 rodotus. 



About sixteen years since I came to a similar 

 conclusion, as to date, about some other British 

 antiquity : but dropped the Idea as preposterous ; 

 for I had not then seen the Phoenician inscriptions 

 alluded to above, and have not a moment for 

 thought to recall even what it could be, just now. 



The fact of this discovery — its confirmatory 

 details I need not and cannot give to any extent 

 at this moment — shows the extreme value of 

 models, as tangibly superior to pictured repre- 

 sentations, for the sense. 



The amphoneidal system identifies the builders 

 of Stonehenge with the Tolteks, or Wandering- 

 Masons, of America ; is written in hieroglyphics 

 in Yucatan ; in alphabetic characters on the Phoe- 

 nician stones still preserved near the site of 

 Carthage ; in another form of hieroglyphics in 

 Java ; and a third in the Nimroud Gallery of As- 

 syria at the British Museum. 



On a closer inspection I find specified the 

 priestesses', the sages', and the warriors' class ; as 

 found also in the Assyrian Nimroud Gallery. The 



first class — perhaps from my own miserable 

 ignorance — I have never discovered elsewhere, 

 save in Javan hieroglyphics ; and the third, there, 

 and in Yucatan : nor had I any idea of these last 

 in England ; though the sages (Buri) are evident 

 from the passage in Csesar's Commentaries, that 

 the Gauls derived their learning from the Britons. 

 We thus get a clue to Ela and the early His- 

 tory of England, which has been so carefully ex- 

 cluded hitherto from early English History. No 

 wonder now that Egyptian pottery was stated, 

 ten years since, as found In the bed of the 

 Thames. K. G. Pote. 



P.S. I have a hundred of your Queries also to 

 answer ; only time for two : 



1. Why should sect and sept have the same 

 origin ? — since sectare meant, in my school days 

 at least, to hold a different opinion, and derived 

 from sec, cut : while sept is the cartilaginous 

 septum of the nostrils, derived from sep ; and 



" Ut flos in septis secretus nascitur hortis : " 

 "As blooms in. fenced glades the unnoted flower." 



2. What difficulty as to aneroid? Is it not 

 Of, privative ; and ippvai, from pita, flow ; that is, 

 without fluid. 



And by the way, the sages who translated 

 Oannes of Berosus as ^leov &cppevov, " without rea- 

 son," did this egotistically : the a Is obviously 

 Intensitive : the " animal " would not teach with- 

 out sense, though the translators did. 



JOHN DUNTON. 



There are few readers of "N. & Q." unac- 

 quainted with The Life and Errors of John 

 Dunton, 8vo., 1705, reprinted by Nichols in 2 vols. 

 8vo., 1818. Lowndes, without saying so, leads to 

 the inference that the original book should have 

 a portrait ; and some who possess the work, not 

 finding it conformable, are under the impression 

 that their exemplars are imperfect. I have had 

 two copies of The Life and Errors in my time, 

 and have seen a few others, but in no Instance 

 have I found this imaginary Effigies Auctoris.; 

 Indeed, a very slight inspection of the volume 

 shows that It never had one, for. In his Speaking 

 Pictures, drawn by Himself, which faces the title, 

 Dunton says expressly : — 



" Fain would the Graver here my picture place, 

 But I myself have drawn my truer Face: 

 Reader, behold my visage in my book, 

 My true idea most exactly took ; 

 My ver^'' Soul may (naked) here be seen, 

 Both what I was, and what I shou'd ha' been." 



The portrait of the author, found in the reprint, 

 Is taken from that by Vandergucht in Athenianism, 

 or the New Projects of Mr. J. D., 8vo., 1710, where 

 the reader will find it, with " an Heroick Poem 

 upon Mr. D.'s picture, which we may infer is a 



