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The word Greywether evidently obtained its origin in the resem- 
blance these stones bore to sheep, when distantly seen in scattered lines 
upon the Downs. As the stones on the Marlborough Hills all trended in 
the same direction, the idea at once took possession of the mind that it 
_ was a stream of rocks even yet moving onwards. In some places they 
lie hurled as it were at random over each other, as if they had formed 
the débris of an overwhelming avalanche, and in other places they were 
huddled one over another like the fallen ruins of some Cyclopean 
temple, or in scattered blocks as if thrown broadcast over the 
Downs. 
The term Druid Stones referred especially to those Celtic monu- 
ments standing in detached places associated with Druidical rites. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
The space over which they were found comprehended a triangular 
patch on the world’s surface, its apex resting in North Wiltshire, and 
its base on the German Ocean—-from Margate to Lowestoft. Lying 
along its north and south flanks were bold hills of chalk, which 
_ probably overlooked this Tertiary area during the glacial period, when 
_ their bases were washed by the waves of a surging sea. 
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7) On looking over the Berkshire area, it would be observed that the 
Kennet extended from the Marlborough Downs, eastward, and joined 
the older and more voluminous Thames at Reading, this same Thames 
_ €ating its way from north and west through the lower stratifications of 
the great Tertiary plane of marine denudation. It was in the western 
_ extremity of the basin, and extending for miles over an area west of 
“ ~ Marlborough, and away northwards towards Swindon that the Sarsens 
chiefly abounded. So thickly were they spread over miles of country 
_ that the traveller might almost leap from stone to stone without touch- 
__ ing the earth. 
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Their distribution in places, nevertheless, appeared somewhat 
patchy, rendering it difficult to determine for what reason in the 
same district one slope of a valley was strewn with them, another 
~ left bare. Some of the Sarsens from their unworn condition evidently 
Pesta near or at the original spots where they were consolidated. 
Such concretions were to be looked for wherever the Lower Tertiaries 
c had found a footing, 
