48 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



Elderton, John. 1790. Stonehenge. Geiit's Mag., LX., ii., 

 1099. 



Eecommends the route through Stratford and the Durnfords to visitors 

 driving from Sahsbury to Stonehenge " in preference to the dreary and 

 desolate country over the Plain." Alludes to Charles II. 's visit to Stone- 

 henge from Heale House. 



Ellis, Geo, [1753—1815]: Author. 

 1805. Specimens of Early English Eomanges ; three vols. 

 8vo. : London. 



1811. Second Edition. 



1848. Third Edition, edited by HalHwell ; 8vo., viii., 600 ; with 



coloured frontispiece : London. 

 Includes the Arthurian romances, etc. ; with some account of Gildas ; 



Nennius ; Geoffrey of Monmouth, and other early chroniclers. 



Elton, Chas. 1. [18.39 — 1900] : Lawyer ami historian. 

 1882. Origins of English History ; 8vo., xiv., 458 ; with ten 

 maps : London. 



1890. Second Edition. 



An admirable book. " There are indications at Stonehenge that the people 

 of the Bronze Age were the actual constructors of the temple on a site 

 which had previously been selected as a burial-ground for the chieftains 

 of the Neolithic tribes." 



Emerson, R. W. [1803—1882]: AiUhcyr. 

 1856. English Traits ; 8vo. : London. Later editions, 1883, etc. 

 Emerson visited Stonehenge, in company with Carlyle, in July, 1848. 

 "We are not yet too late to learn much more than is known of this 

 structure. Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive, stone by stone, 

 at the whole history, by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance, 

 so whimsical in its choice of objects, which leaves its own Stonehenge or 

 Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh." 

 (Ed. of 1883, pp. 220—234.) 



Essex, James [1722 — 1784]: Architect. 

 1777. Eemarks on the Antiquity of Buildings in England. 

 Archceologia., IV., 73 — 109. 



Stonehenge is the only one of the works assigned to the Ancient Britons 

 on which the marks of the " chizel " appear. 



