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stones, and the authority of the Abingdon Chronicle cited by 

 Dugdale Mon. Aug. i., p. 97, calling it Stanhengest from Hengist 

 is of no weight. 



" Leland's opinion that Choir Grawr should not be translated Chorea 

 Gigantum, but Chorea nobilis or magna, putting gawr for vawr is 

 probable enough." 



King, in his "Munimenta Antiqua," i., p. 189, 1799, says of 

 Stonehenge : " Such as were Balaam's altars, such in some degree 

 were the altars at Stonehenge, only more vast and magnificent : 

 being constructed by a people who were at the time more at leisure : 

 and who erected the altars with more additional appendages for the 

 purposes of more gross superstitious rite introduced in the later, and 

 still more corrupted ages of the world. ... It ought just to 

 be added : that it has been observed (Gent. Mag., Ixi., p. 108) that 

 its very British name Cor Gawr points out an Asiatic origin; and 

 leads us to conclude, that it was some kind of resemblance of some- 

 thing derived from the East.'' 



To our old Wiltshire antiquary, John Britton (see '^ Beauties of 

 Wiltshire, vol. ii., 129 — 180, 1801), it clearly appeared, "that 

 Stonehenge was the work of the Bomanlzed Britons, about the latter 

 end of the fifth century." 



The Rev. Edward Davies, in his " Celtic Researches," (1804) says: 

 '' When the Romans acquired a footing in Britain, they found the 

 country possessed by two nations, the Belgse, originally Celtae, but 

 somewhat intermixed with strangers, and an indigenous race, who 

 declared they were born in the island. Amongst these pure des- 

 cendants of the Celtae, the Druidism of Britain was in his highest 

 repute. The principal seat of the order was found in Mona, an 

 interior recess of that ancient race, which was born in the island. 

 Into that sequestered scene, the Druids, who detested warfare, had 

 gradually retired, after the irruption of the Belgae, and the further 

 encroachments of the Romans. They had retired from their ancient 

 magnificent seat at Abury, and from their circular uncoiiered temple 

 on Salisbury Plain, in which the Hyperborean sages had once 

 chaunted their hymns to Apollo or Plenyz." 



The Rev. James Ingram, Professor ol Anglo-Saxon in the 



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