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twenty-nine. Two views of Stonehenge (from the S.W. and the N.E.) 

 are often bound up with this volume ; but were not pubhshed with it. 

 ISee review by " D.H." Gent's Mag., 1771, Vol. XLL, 30-31.] 



Smith, Thos. 1867. Sporting Incidents; 8vo.: London. 

 " Theory of Stonehenge," pp. 104—107, with two plates. The stones were 

 transported upon rollers made of trunks of trees burnished with holes for 

 the insertion of levers. A mound of earth was raised upon the present 

 site of Stonehenge. In this mound holes were made into which the great 

 upright stones were dropped ; the imposis were then laid across them. 

 Finally the earth-mound was cleared away. 



Smith, Wm. [1550—1618]: Herald," Bovgc-Dr agon." 

 1588. Description of England: MS. 



1879. Edition by ^Vlieatley and Ashbee ; 4to., xix., 72 ; map and 

 twenty-eight coloured plates : London. 



The original MS. is in the British Museum. Stonehenge is named as one 

 of the " seven wonders " of England, A tinted " picture " [Plate XXII. J 

 of the monument is given, in which five of the great triUthons are shown 

 as then erect and complete. Smith repeats Geoffrey's legend about the 

 " Stonhedge " or " Stonhenge " being erected by " Aurelius Ambrose" m 

 470 A.D. 



Soane, Sir John [1753—1837] : Architect. 

 The Soane Museum, 13, Lincohi's Inn Fields, London, contains a 

 model of Stonehenge. This model must have been made before 

 1797,inasmuch as it shows the great western trilithon as still erect. 



Southey, Robt. [1774—1843] : Poet. 

 1796. Inscriptions : III., for a Tablet at Silbury Hill ; sec 

 Vol. III., p. 105, of Southey's " Works " ; edition of 1859 : London. 

 Treats the hiU as a sepulchral mound—" In his narrow house, some warrior 

 sleeps below." 



1798. Sonnet XIIL; to the Sun. 



See Vol. II., p. 96, of Southey's " Works" ; edition of 1837 ; l2mo. : London. 

 Sowerby, Jas. [1757—1822] : Mineralogist, etc. 

 1812. \_See Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, L, 149—50.] 



Early in the nineteenth century, Sir B. C. Hoare sent to Mr. Sowerby a 

 small specimen of each and every stone which forms the circles and 

 horseshoes of Stonehenge. The sarsens Sowerby defined as a " fine-grained 

 species of siliceous sandstone " ; of the other stones, twenty-six are " an 

 aggregate of quartz, feldspar, chlorite and hornblend ; one is a siliceous 



