By William Long, Esq. 79 



interest in the subject has come to an end. In Dr. Thurnam's paper, 

 in the ninth volume of the Wiltshire Magazine, will be found a 

 detailed account o£ the whole affair. 



The writer noticed, in October, 1875, that a "broad arrow" had 

 recently been cut on the large stone behind the leaning stone of the 

 largest trilithon. When this shall have lost its fresh appearance, 

 it might, if previously unnoticed, give rise to similar specula- 

 tions. 



The Fall op the Trilithon m 1797. 



The " Archseologia," vol. xvi., p. 103, contains an account of the 

 fall of some of the stones of Stonehenge, in a letter from William 

 George Maton, M.B., F.A.S., to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., 

 F.R.S., and F.A.S. It was read June 29th, 1797. The following 

 is the most interesting portion of it : " On the third of the month 

 (January) already mentioned, some people employed at the plough. 



truck he set off across the plain with his charge. After a toilsome and 

 almost continuous march of two days and nights (for he only slept for a 

 short time in the day), he arrived on the morning of the third day at the 

 British Museum, showed the letter of the trustees to the porter, wheeled his 

 load into the court-yard, and saw his model safely deposited in the house. 

 He left without staying to be questioned, and was soon on his way home 

 again ; but was detained some days on the road hy illness brought on by 

 his exertions." He died at "Winchester, April 17th, 1839, aged 70 years, 

 while journeying on foot to deliver a course of lectures at Chichester. He 

 wrote, in 1809, a pamphlet entitled " The real State of England ; " in 

 1810, " A brief arrangement of the Apocalypse ; '' and in 1830, " The critical 

 state of England at the present time." He styles himself " Lecturer on 

 History." 



Mr, Browne, in his little book on Stonehenge and Abury, thus describes the 

 conclusion he came to from his observations as to the manner in which the few 

 remaining transverse stones of the outer circle had been connected together : 

 " They were originally connected together throughout the whole circle by thirty 

 stones placed upon the tops of them, which were fitted together at their extremi- 

 ties by corresponding projections and hollows, as shown by Fig. I. in the plate 

 (copied in woodcut) : another circumstance, I believe, hitherto unnoticed by the 

 investigators of Stonehenge." The writer regrets having been prevented, 

 hitherto, from verifying, by personal inspection, the foregoing statement, which 

 had approved itself to Sir. E,. Hoare. 



