72 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



Irtoy, Hon. Capt. [1789—1845] and Jas. Mangles 



[1786—1867] : Travellers. 

 1823. Travels in Egypt ; 8vo., xxxiv., 560 ; illustrated. 



Privately printed : London. 

 1844. New Edition, published by Murray. 

 Describes the method used by the ancient Egyptians for detaching the 



large blocks of stone at the granite quarries of Assuan (p. 119). 



Jackson, Rev. Canon J. E. [1805— 1891J : Hector of Leigh 



Delamere ; antiquary. 



1858. Life of Aubrey. Wilts Mag., IV., 91 — 108 ; portrait. 

 " The well-worn condition of his [Aubrey's] manuscripts in the Ashmolean 

 Museum bears ample witness to the homage of his votaries." 



1869. Carnac: a New Key to be tried to a very Rusty 



Old Lock. Notes ami Queries, 4th ser., IV., 1 — 6, and 160 — 164. 

 Carnac and Stonehenge are both national memorials ; the former to the 



" eleven thousand virgins " who were murdered there in A.D. 383 ; the 

 latter to the British nobles assassinated by Hengist, A.D. 470. [See pp. 

 58—60 ; 77—79 ; 98—100 ; 242 ; and 288 of this volume, for criticisms by 

 sundry writers, including " W. W. W." ; G.V.Irving; " M. H. B. " ; 

 W. B, MacCabe ; Wm. Pinkerton ; and " C.W." 



1875. Leland's Journey through Wiltshire, A.D. 



1540 — 42: (with notes;) 4to. : Devizes. 



James, CoL Sir Hen. [1803 — 1877] : Director of the Ordnance 



Survey. 



1867. Plans and Photos of Stonehenge, etc. ; fol., iv., 20 ; 



with frontispiece, eight photos, four plans, and live sketches: 



London. 



The sketches include four of Irish cromlechs, and one of Turusachan 

 [=Callernish, Isle of Lewis] . The photographs are 10 X 8 silver prints. 

 Exact measures of the great Irilithons are given (p. 2). The blue-stones 

 are considered to be " erratic blocks from the north of England and from 

 Scotland, transported by the agency of ice" (p. 3). Considers that the 

 construction of Stonehenge has been rightly assigned to the Druids ; o 

 whom an account is given, with quotations from Diodorus, Caesar, etc. 

 (pp. 5-14). 



Jewitt, Llewellynn[ [1816— 1886]: Antiquary. 

 1869. Stoine Circles. Student, III., 344 — 351 ; illustrated. 

 Describes, in a popular way, the smaller stone circles of Britain. They 

 were " formed in connection with interments." 



