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and that lie tliought lie could point out a way 

 in AYhicli it might have been constructed. 

 Pen, ink, and paper were forthwith placed be- 

 fore him, and he was desii-ed to put his ideas 

 in a tangible shape. He at once made a 

 sketch (substantially the same as that on the 

 opposite plate), and the matter furnished con- 

 versation for the evening. The Bishop, look- 

 ing at the sketch, allowed that there might be 

 something in the supposition, and next asked 

 where the huge stones at Stonehenge could 

 have come from. Mr. Smith then gave, an ac- 

 count of a fox having been run to earth at the 

 Grey Wethers, and explained that those stones 

 are just of the same character ; some of them 

 being twenty feet long, seven or eight wide, 

 and tln-ee or four thick. He allowed that it 

 would require a great number of men to trans- 

 port such stones for ten miles over Salisbury 

 Plain; but anyone who looks at the Wans- 

 dyke, which traverses the same district for 

 thirty or forty miles, will see that that is no 



