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should have been brought together, some erect, others transverse on 

 the tops of them, in a circular area as rudely representing a cloister 

 or heathen and more natural temple, is wonderful. The stone is so 

 exceedingly hard, that all my strength with a hammer could not 

 break a fragment, which hardness I impute to their so long exposure. 

 To number them exactly is very difficult, they lie in such variety of 

 postures and confusion, though they seemed not to exceed 100 ; we 

 counted only 95. As to their being brought thither, there being 

 no navigable river near, is by some admired ; but for the stone, 

 there seems to be the same kind about 20 miles distant, some of 

 which appear above ground. About the same hills, are divers 

 mounts raised, conceived to be ancient intrenchments, or places of 

 burial, after bloody fights. We now went by the Devizes, a reason- 

 able large town, and came late to Cadenham." 



Pepys was there on the 11th June, 1668: "Thence [that is 

 from the Cathedral] to the inne ; and there not being able to hire 

 coach-horses, and not willing to use our own, we got saddle horses, 

 very dear. Boy that went to look for them, 6<^. So the three 

 women behind W. Hewer, Murford, and our guide, and I single to 

 Stonehenge, over the Plain and some great hills, even to fright us. 

 Come thither, and find them as prodigious as any tales I ever heard 

 of them, and worth this journey to see, God knows what their use 

 was ! they are hard to tell, but yet may be told. Gave the shepherd- 

 women, for leading our horses, Aid." 



To " the Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, vulgarly called 

 Stone-heng, on Salisbury Plain, restored, by Inigo Jones, Esq., 

 Architect-General to the late King," (1655,) is prefixed the 

 following preface, signed "J. W." (John Webb.) "This dis- 

 course of Stone-Heng is moulded off and cast into a rude form, 

 from some few indigested notes of the late judicious architect, 

 the Virtruvius of his age, Inigo Jones. That so venerable an 

 antiquity might not perish, but the world made beholding to 

 him for restoring it to light, the desires of several of his learned 

 friends have encouraged me to compose this Treatise. Had he sur- 

 vived to have done it with his own hand, there had needed no 

 apology. Such as it is, I make now yours. Accept it in his name 



