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Irish, but had been brought to that country by 

 giants from Africa, under which circumstances it 

 was obvious that they were the rightful possession 

 of England. At any rate Merlin was dispatched 

 with an army to Kildare, and the stones were 

 removed and set up on Salisbury Plain, near the 

 " Mount of Ambrius," and subsequently served 

 as the burial-place of Aurelius, of Uther Pendragon 

 and of Constantine. 



The author of the Fool's Bolt thought 



" surely, it was some heathonish temple demolished 

 by the immediate hand of God, as an intollerable 

 abomination unto him : yet reserving so much of it 

 standing, as may declare what the whole was, & 

 how, & why, so destroyed, that, as we are to re- 

 member Lot's wife, turned into a Piller of Salt, 

 for looking backward towards idolatrous Sodome, 

 so we should remember, that these forlorne Pillers 

 of Stone are left to our remembrances, dissuading 

 us from looking back in our hearts upon anything 

 of Idolatry, and persuading us, in imitation of 

 Moses and the Prophets, so to describe and deride, 

 it in it's uglie Coullers, that none of us, or our 

 posterity, may return with Doggs to such Vomit, 

 or Sows to wallowing in such mire." 



The surmises as to the nature and origin of 

 Stonehenge have been most numerous and most 

 varied. Of course it has been associated with the 

 Druids, the last resort of all in search of an author 

 for any ancient monument, and according to one 

 writer these Druids were a Phoenician colony who 

 came to Britain in the time of Abraham, and 



