144 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



honoured his Bethel, or holy temple, Such a memorial had the 



king of Al t executed by Jofouah. " As foon as the fun was 



" down, JoJJjuah commanded that they fho.ul'd take his carcafe 

 " down from the tree, and caft it at the entering of the gate of 

 *' the city, and raife thereon a great heap of flones, that remain- 

 " eth unto this day (x)." 



- Such a memorial likewife had Achan and his family, whofe 

 bodies were firft burnt to aihes, with all their treafure and 

 \wealth (y). 



Hence the open temples, the pillars, the obelifks, the confe- 

 crated groves of oak, the heaps of flones, reared by the pagans 

 to their falfe gods, and to the memory of the dead. Hence the 

 /Egyptian pyramid. Hence the fair column of the Greeks fz), of 

 the Romans, and of the feveral nations taught and ruled by the 

 Druids ; the primitive religious rites accompanying mankind 

 upon their grand difperfion at the tower of Babel, about the 

 4ooth year after the flood, according to the Samaritan computa 

 tion (a). 



A road branches off from the i4th mile-flone, on the right 

 hand, to 



(x) Jof. viii. ver. 29. (y) Jof. vii. vet. 24, &c. 



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(z) Horn. Odyff. lib. i. Clemens Alexandnn. lib. i. Herod, lib. 5. Paufan, in Bavt. et 

 in Ach. Arnob. contra Gentes, lib. i. 



(a) Borlafe's Antiq. of CORNWALL, p. 6, 7. 

 . See Stanley's STONEHENGE, and ABURV. 



By-well, 



