On Druidkal Remains. aoc 



inhabitants, performed the rites of their religion 

 upon high grounds, as moft fuitable to the fo- 

 lemnity of their worfhip; and as they might 

 fuppofe the Deity to be more propitious, when 

 addreffed from a lofty eminence, *' they wor- 

 " (hipped the whole expanfe of heaven, and had 

 " open temples." Sacred hiftory aflures us this 

 was the cuftom amongft idolatrous nations in the 

 eaft. We are told in the hiftory of the Jewifli 

 kings, that Jofiah, zealous in the worfhip of the 

 true God, went about to reform the Ifraelites, 

 who had fallen into idolatry; that he deftroyed 

 the groves, the temples, and the high places that 

 were before Jerufalem, and on the right hand 

 of the mount of Corruption, which King Solomon 

 had built for Afhtoreth, the idol of the Sidonians, 

 and for Chemofh, the idol of the Moabites, and 

 for Milchom, the abomination of the children 

 of Ammon. The margin of our old Bibles in- 

 forms us, it was the mount of Olives, that was 

 called the mount of Corruption, becaufe it was 

 full of idols. 



Now it may be allowed, that the" refidence of 

 a Druid, thus elevated upon a mountain, would 

 the better command refped from a furrounding 

 crowd, who had an opportunity, for many miles 

 around, of beholding the fmoke afcend from a 

 burning facrifice. 



The ftone called pancake, I fhall venture to 



point out, as an altar once ufed for facrifice, for 



U 4 libations. 



