By William Long, Esq. 45 



and were not ignorant certainly of the arts of life. This proves 

 also the stones not to be factitious ; for they that could mould such 

 durable masses could do much more than make mortar, and could 

 have continued the transverse from the upright part with the same 

 paste. 



" You have doubtless seen Stonehenge ; and if you have not, I 

 should think it a hard task to make an adequate description. It is 

 in my opinion, to be referred to the earliest habitation of the island, 

 as a druidical monument of, at least, two thousand years ; probably 

 the most ancient work of man upon the island. Salisbury Cathedral 

 and its neighbour Stonehenge are two eminent monuments of art 

 and rudeness, and may show the first essay and the last perfection 

 in architecture." 



The additions made by Richard Gough, F.A. & R.S.S., toCamden^s 

 " Britannia " for the edition published in 1789, are of sufficient im- 

 portance to deserve reproduction " in extenso," although this will 

 entail a cei'tain amount of repetition hereafter : " About six miles 

 from Salisbury to the north on the plain is what Cicero^ would call 

 irisana substructio, a wild structure, .a number of monstrous rude 

 stones, some o£ them twenty-eight feet high, and seven broad, placed 

 in three concentric circles surromided by a ditch : some of them lie 

 across as architraves on the tops of the others ; so that it seems like 

 a hanging work, whence we call it Stonehenge, and our ancient his- 

 torians Choir Gawr, the Dailce of Giants, from its size. But as no 

 description can do it justice, I have here annexed a print of it.^ 



" Our countrymen reckon this among their wonders : not being 

 able to discover whence and how such kind of stones were brought, 

 none such being found in the whole neighbourhood. It is not my 



' Orat. pro Milone. 

 * " Mr. Camden's print being probably copied from an older, dated 1575, ^rith 

 the initials R F., which may be presumed the oldest engraving of this monu- 

 ment, we have thought it advisable to give the older print a place here. The 

 reader will make all due allowance for the errors in the drawing, among which 

 the making the top stones appear round is not one of the least." This older print 

 has been re-engraved for the present paper by Mr. Bidgooi, curator of the 

 Museum of the Somersetshire Archaeological Society, at Taunton, who is as 

 clever an artist as he is an earnest arohieologist. 



