156 Druidism in connection with Wiltshire. 
temples, and especially the dracontic temple of Abury. Stonehenge 
appears to have been neither of the dracontic nor alate description 
of temple, but merely of a circular form with ordinary avenues or 
approaches. In this respect it resembles more nearly Gilgal and 
many other ancient open temples, both in Britain and other coun- 
tries, in various and unconnected quarters of the world. 
CHAPTER III. 
THE First Cotonists oF Eeypt. 
“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations.” 
Let us now endeavour to trace some connexion between the 
builders of Stonehenge and the patriarchal age. 
Much difference of opinion has prevailed with regard to the 
locality of Eden and the residence of Noah and his family after 
the deluge. There is reason, however, to believe that the situation 
of both Paradise and the residence of the Patriarch were rather in 
the neighbourhood of Caucasus than the Caspian. Eden is supposed 
by some reliable writers to have been an extensive region to the 
North of India, and Kedem, whence the descendants of Noah emi- 
grated, to have been the most easternly province of the Persian 
Empire. In the neighbourhood of this district were probably 
Ashur, Cush, Sephar, and many other places mentioned in Scrip- 
ture. Kedem signifies ancient, primary, the origin, or original 
residence of man. 
The Brahmins have a tradition that Shem, the son of Noah, 
inhabited the district east of Persia. The City Bamiyan is de- 
scribed in their sacred books as the source of holiness and purity, 
and is there also termed Shem-Bamiyan from the Patriarch Shem, 
by whom according to the Baudhists (or Budhists) it was built: it 
is situated between Balac and Cabul, and consists of a vast number 
of apartments and recesses cut out of the rock, some of which for 
their magnitude are considered to have been temples. 
Persian writers have affirmed that this ancient City Bamiyan 
existed before the flood, but the Budhists have a tradition that it 
was built by a “most religious man called Sharma;” who appears 
from other circumstances to have been Shem, and that it was 
