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is found in the town of New Rochelle, in the same county. — {Hist. Coimty of West- 

 chester, By RoBT. Bolton, Jr., Vol. I., p. 374 : Vol. II., p. 403.) In the township 

 last named is also a very remarkable rock, supported by five others, as shown in 

 the following wood-cut, Fig. 45 : 



From its entire correspondence with the Celtic cromlech, this has attracted some 

 considerable attention. Its position is, however, entirely the result of accident. 

 The rock itself is granite, and the supporting stones limestone. The members of 

 the New York Geological Survey decided that it owes its position to the washing 

 away of the earth from among the stones upon which the boulder accidentally 

 rested when transported to this spot. — {lb., Vol. I., p. 374 ) 



It is well known that among the nations of the East, a plain, unwrought stone 

 placed in the ground, was an emblem of the generative or procreative powers of 

 nature. In India such such stones are very abundant, and are denominated Lin- 

 gams ; and in Central America the same symbol was extensively adopted. It is 

 not improbable that the erection of an obelisk of wood in the centre of the con- 

 secrated areas of the Creeks, as described by Bartram, on page 135, had its origin 

 in the primitive practice of erecting these symbolical stones ; which in India, as 

 'also in Central America, almost invariably occupy the centres of the sacred 

 eiiclosures. Stones arranged in a circle, around a central larger one, or amidst 

 several disposed in a peculiar manner, was a very primitive form of the solar 

 temple. The remains of these temples, notwithstanding their rudeness, constitute 

 some of the most imposing and interesting monuments of the Old World. If we 

 may credit Beverly, the Indians of Virginia not only erected sacred stones, but 

 had sacred enclosures, corresponding very nearly with the ancient stone circles. 

 He says : " The Indians have posts fixed around their Quioccasan (temple of the 

 idol), which have men's faces carved upon them, and are painted. They are like- 

 wise set up around some of their other celebrated places, and make a circle for 

 them to dance about in on certain solemn occasions. They very often set up 

 pyramidal stones and pillars, which they color with puccoon and other sorts of 

 paint, and which they adorn with peak, roanok, etc. To these they pay all outward 

 signs of worship and devotion, not as to God, but as they are hieroglyphics of 

 the permanency and imniutability of the Deity; because these, of all sublunary 



