Il8 THE GIANT AND THE MAYtOLE OF CERNE. 



fore, is what the Doctor has laboured in the preceding and 

 following conjectures. 



The great British King Eli, surnamed Maur, and the Just, 

 father of Imanuensis, King of the Trinobantes, and of Casse- 

 velan, who headed the Confederate Britons to oppose Caesar in 

 his invasion of Britain, is intimated, the Doctor thinks, in this 

 figure of the Giant at Cerne Abbas, to which the people there 

 give the name of Helis. He conjectures this enormous figure 

 might be cut by the Britons in compliment to King Eli on his 

 expelling the Belgae from that country and driving them to 

 Ireland, where they took possession of the south part of it under 

 the name of Firbolgs\ and that it might be cut when he was 

 present at their Anniversary Midsummer Games, a name still 

 retained in Yorkshire from the oldest times. 



The Doctor, at the same time, explained three old British 

 coins he has engraved relating to these games, struck by Eli, 

 being prizes for the victors. 



