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or fupporter, the depth of which holes was 

 to be equal to the length of the ftones ; 

 and then, which with their levers could 

 eaiily be done, the ftones might be raifed 

 on end and let flip into thefe holes. Thefe 

 being now well clofed about with earth, 

 and their tops being made level with the 

 top of the mount, the other, flat ftones to 

 place upon them, might now be rolled up 

 in the fame manner as the others, and it 

 was only placing thefe incumbent flat 

 ftones on the tops of the fupporters, pro- 

 perly poifed and faftened, and cutting away 

 the earth from between them, almoft to 

 the bottom, and there would then appear 

 what are called ftonehenge, roljfrick, and 

 the Britifh cromlech; and where there 

 was no incumbent ftonej, the upright co- 

 lumns and pillars, which we now fee re- 

 maining in many parts of the kingdom. 

 This is the eafieft and moft natural method 

 that can be imagined for the erection of 



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