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night of the shortest day of the year. Let us call their first month 
January—that would have only 30 days. The next month, 
February, would have 31 days, Now the 61st day, the last of 
that month, would not exceed the average day in length, therefore 
the size of that day’s trilithon is not of excessive proportion. On 
the 31st day of the fourth month, the sun is longer above 
the horizon than he is on the daily average of the year. So 
the trilithon for that day is considerably higher. And the 31st day 
of the sixth month, June, the longest day of the year, has by far 
the grandest trilithon of the five. So with the other two 
trilithons. And the last month of the year would have no 31st 
day nor any trilithon. 
THE OUTLYING STONES TELL THE DATE OF THE BUILDING. 
We now come to the four outlying stones, all Sarsens, and two 
mounds, each of which mounds in all probability carried originally 
a stone. It is, I think, from these outlying stones and mounds 
that we must hope for answer to the questions :—For what purpose 
and at what age was this monument set up? No answer to these 
questions has yet been published that has convinced the intelligence 
of thinking men in general, though, doubtless, some of the 
conclusions that have been published have seemed satisfactory to 
~ some people. 
I, too, have lately carefully considered these stones, and to 
me the result I have arrived at seems so satisfactory that I 
now venture to submit it to your intelligence. The lines on 
which I conducted my examination of these stones were novel 
lines, and the results of my inquiry differ from those which other 
inquirers have brought out as widely as the method of my inquiry 
differs from theirs. Now it is not easy for a new theory to 
make its way when the field is already occupied by former 
theories. I must, therefore, ask you to dismiss, as far as possible, 
from your minds all preconceived ideas, such as that Stonehenge 
and Avebury must have some connection with each other, or that 
