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large as tlie others ; and two strong bovs 

 could together have rolled it over. I have 

 no doubt that it had been rolled over at a 

 moderately recent time, for it now lay at 

 some distance from the two other stones at 

 the bottom of a little adjoining slope. It 

 rested also on fine earth, instead of partly on 

 brick-rubbish. In agreement with this con- 

 clusion, the raised surrounding border of 

 turf was only 1 inch high in some parts, and 

 2 inches in other parts. There were no 

 colonies of ants beneath this stone, and on 

 digging a hole where it had lain, several 

 burrows and worms were found. 



At Stonehenge, some of the outer Druidical 

 stones are now prostrate, having fallen at a 

 remote but unknown period ; and these have 

 become buried to a moderate depth in the 

 ground. They are surrounded by slo|)ing 

 borders of turf, on which recent castings were 

 seen. Close to one of these fallen stones, 

 which was 17 ft. long, 6 ft. broad, and 28^ 

 inclies thick, a hole was dog ; and here the 

 vegetable mould was at least 9^ inches in 

 thickness. At this depth a flint was found, 

 and a little higher up on one side of the hole 



