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THE ARGUMENT FROM BRONZE IMPLEMENTS. 
Many people also say:—As the stones at Stonehenge were 
dressed with bronze tools, the Temple could not have been built 
before the barrows that are near it, which have produced 
scarcely any bronze implements. My answer is that the 
Pheenicians were not natives of Britain any more than the 
Spaniards were natives of Mexico at the Conquest, and it would 
be as reasonable to expect Cortes to have handed to the Aztecs 
his guns and his powder as to expect the Pheenicians to have 
made the secret of their bronze the common property of 
the Britons. Not that it is at all likely that they treated the 
natives with cruelty. Their own interest lay in the contrary 
direction ; and, accordingly, Pytheas, when he sailed to this 
island in the third century B.c., (by which time the mart had 
been changed to the Isle of Thanet for tin, which the Britons 
brought thither in their coracles, taking a week on the voyage), 
remarked how civilized and what good people of business the 
natives were. 
THE LEANING GREAT TRILITHON STONE, NO. 56. 
In conclusion may I express my hope that this Club will do some- 
thing, perhaps in conjunction with other Societies, to eusure the 
safety of the great trilithon upright, now leaning to its fall. It is 
the largest native stone on which man has worked in this island. 
And it forms a part of a ruin of what is, as I have endeavoured 
to show, probably the oldest Temple in Europe. Unless some- 
thing is done it must soon fall, and when it falls it will be 
broken. Let us try to avert this calamity ! 
While this paper was in the press I have been asked by more 
than one Member to show the difference between the length of 
the day when Stonehenge was being built and the length now. 
The correct method for finding this would fill with figures three 
pages of this magazine. I will, therefore, use the simple plan 
adopted at pp. 28, 29, for finding the sun’s amplitude. 
