122 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Ezekiel VIII., 16, refers, with abhorrence, to a place where worshippers faced 

 the east and worshipped the sun. This was 500 years B.C. 



The description of the Great Pyramid, as given by the late Professor Piazzi 

 Smith in his book, " Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid," edition of 1880, Avas 

 referred to, who declares that the Pleiades were there, as also in old Mexican 

 temples, specially honoured ; but it was shown that later wix rs, such as Gerald 

 Massey, dispute much of this theory. 



Mr. Massey, so, also, comes into conflict with the theories expressed by 

 Ernest de Bunsen and E. G. Haliburton, and limits the cult of the Pleiades very 

 much to Greece and Eome and the races sprung from them. 



The late work of Sir N. Lockyer and Dr. Penrose, F.R.S., in orienting Stone- 

 henge on Salisbury Plain was lastly discussed. 



They show that there was here a great Temple of Apollo, after the Grecian 

 or Egyptian model, oriented to the Sun, and declare that it was erected about 

 1680 B.C., or 500 years before the fall of Troy, by people who were not ignorant 

 of astronomy, and whose priests knew more of the arts than they are generally 

 credited with. 



Stonehenge was assumed to be the place referred to in Diodorus Siculus II. 

 47, as a sacred enclosure dedicated to the Sun-God, and by Caesar, de Bello 

 Gal. VI., where he stated that its Druid priests taught of the movements of the 

 stars, the size of the world, the nature of things and the powder of the immortal 

 gods. 



Mr. Hamilton referred to certain legends connecting Stonehenge with the 

 Pleiades. 



