146 Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avehury. 



Westropp, H. M. 1872. Prehistoric Phases ; 8vo., xxiv., 202, 



with six plates and fifty-nine woodcuts : London. 



Includes references (p. 162) to Stonehenge as a combination of the stone 

 circle and the cromlech. Its object was sepulchral, and it was not a 

 temple. 



Whitaker, Rev. Jno. 1771. History of Manchester ; 

 4to., X., 469 ; with appendix and eight plates : London. 

 1773. Second Edition, two vols., Svo., xvi., 385 ; and iv., 427. 

 Eefers to Amber ; " Brass " [^Bronze] ; the Belgse ; Barrows ; Druidism, 

 etc. In the second edition the plates are omitted. 



1772. Genuine History of the Britons Asserted ; 8vo., 



iv., 304: London. 



A refutation of Macpherson. Includes a general account of the peopling 

 of Britain, etc. 



Whitaker, Wm. [b. 1836]: Geologist. 

 1887. Report of Easter Excursion (1886) to Salisbury and 

 Stonehenge. Proc. Geol. Assoc, IX., 522 — 532. 

 The " directors " were Mr. Whitaker and Dr. H. P. Blackmore. Salisbury 

 Cathedral is built of " Portland stone from the Vale of Wardour, some miles 

 to the west, and columns of Purbeck marble." At Stonehenge, Mr. 

 Whitaker described the petrology of the monument, and proposed certain 

 resolutions for its restoration. 



1889. Geology of London, etc. Geol. Survey Memoir; 



8vo., xi., 556, with one hundred and five woodcuts : London. 

 This book is practically the second edition of the " Geology of the London 



Basin," by the same author, published in 1872. For references to the 

 Grey-wethers, Druid Sandstone, or Sarsens, see pp. 197, 364, 478 — 480, 

 500. Windsor Castle is built of grey-wether sandstone ; and it is also used 

 for paving. The author agrees with Prestwich that some of the blocks of 

 sandstone now found scattered over the London Basin may have come 

 from the Woolwich and Beading Beds ; but thinks that the grey -wethers 

 at its western end (Wilts, etc.) have been derived from the Bagshot Sands. 



White, Htich. [1539 — 1611] : Jurist and historian. 

 1597 — 1607. Historiarum (Britanni^e) ; libri (1 — 11) . . . 

 cum notis antiquitatum Britannicarum [edited by Thos. White] : 

 seven parts ; 8vo. : Arras and Douay. 



Includes portrait of the author, whose "favourite study was British history." 

 White opposes the theory (then generally held) that the stones of Stone- 

 henge were artificial. 



