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boulders would, from their peculiar characters, be the first to 
attract attention, and be gradually removed by the races of men 
who have successively inhabited the district. In the South of 
England large boulders of granite and other large rocks, when 
found, as they occasionally are, if not preserved as “ curiosities,” 
like that on Southsea beach, very soon disappear, being broken up 
and utilised in various ways. 
In conclusion, then, I may repeat my can that if the 
prevalent beliefs and traditions concerning Stonehenge were true, 
and the “bluestone” circles were transported from some distant 
locality, either aS trophies of war, or as the sacred treasures of a 
wandering tribe, it is quite inconceivable that they should have 
been hewed and chipped, as we now know them to have been, and 
reduced in some cases to half their dimensions, after having been 
carried with enormous difficulty over land and water, and over hills 
and valleys. On the other hand, in the glacial drift, which once 
probably thinly covered the district, the glacial deposits dying out 
very gradually as we proceed southwards, we have a source from 
which such stones might probably have been derived. It is quite 
a well-known peculiarity of the glacial drift to exhibit considerable 
assemblages of stones of a particular character at certain spots, 
2ach of these assemblages having probably been derived from the 
same source. 
I would therefore suggest as probable that when the early in- 
habitants of this island commenced the erection of Stonehenge, 
sbury Plain was sprinkled over thickly with the great white 
ses of the sarsen-stones (“greywethers”), and much more 
yaringly with darker coloured boulders (the so-called “bluestones”), 
he last relics of the glacial drift, which had been nearly denuded 
Wi y. From these two kind of materials the stones suitable for 
he contemplated temple were selected. Itis even possible that the 
bundance and association of these two kinds of materials, so 
<ingly contrasted in colour and appearance, at a particular spot, 
Ly not only have decided the site, but, to some extent, have 
gested the architectural features of the noble structure of 
