By William Long, Esq. 37 



the First) did say, that an Altar Stone was found in the middle df 

 From ye rcver- the Area here : and that it was carried away to St. 



end Kandal Caldi- 



cot, D.D.nis LoPs James' (Westminster), and he also sad, that upon 

 SopTtone.''*'" "^ the digging- of the Duke of Buckingham, were found 



heads 



here Stagges-hornes and BulFs homes and Charcoales. 



" One of the great stones that lies downe, on the west side, hath 

 a cavity something resembling the print of a man's foot : concerning 

 which the Shepherds and Countrey people have a Tradition (w"'. 

 many of them doe stedfastly believe) that when Merlin conveyed 

 these Stones from Ireland by Art Magick, the Devill hitt him in the 

 heele with that stone, and so left the print there. 



" I am now of the opinion that the east vacuity in Plate VIII 

 fig. 1^ did containe only one f\ and no more ; it may well enough 

 agree with the paces and interstices, viz., intervall four paces and 

 y^ five : as also with the distance of the Pilasters ■ ■ ■ . 



" The three stones which Mr. Inigo Jones would have to be angles 

 of an equilateral triangle, are the angles of a Scalenum. The great 

 one (fig. 6) answereth to fig 7th in the Walke or Avenue. The other 

 two are but about six foot high and went round (within) the circular 

 Banke, as they doe at Anbury ; witnesse yet three pittes or 

 signes of them, where the stones were heretofore pitcht and equi- 

 distant : which is a good Remarque. 



" 'Tis strange to see how Mr. Camden, Dr. Hakewell in his 

 Apologie with severall others (even Dr. Robt. Plot) should imagine 



'tis apparent certainly 



that these stones are artificiall.: they are thestones of thcGray weathers, 

 distant from hence not above fourteen miles, where there are thousands 

 of such stones to be drawn out of the earth. They were brought hither 

 upon Rowlers, and, on the Downes,one may plainly enough yet discerne, 

 where these vast stones of Aubuiy and Stoneheng' were drawn-out : and 



use 



some, not being big enough for their purpose, doe lie on the brink of the 

 pitts still. Perhaps the holes where the stares doe nest might induce Dr. 

 Hakewell to believe them to be factitious ; but had he tried them 

 with a toole, he would quickly have been undeceived, and would 

 have found them to have been of the same colour (e — reddish generally) 

 grain and haidnesse as are the Gray-weathers. 



