156 Silbunj. 



and especially on the Marlborough downs more ocular proof than 



perhaps any where else : and now I would ask, what appearance 



does Silbury present, but that of a gigantic barrow ? though to 



to adapt the words of the Roman poet, 



" Micat inter omnes 

 Silbury collis, velut inter ignes 

 Lima rainores." 



And how comes it that the downs round Avebury abound for 

 miles in every direction with such innumerable barrows, but that 

 they form, as it were, a vast graveyard to the colossal temple there, 

 a kind of Mecca where the faithful would desire to lay their bones, 

 a Westminster Abbey in the remote age of the Druids ? ^ 



xxiv. 791—799. 



Odyss : xii. Elpenor's Tomb. 



xxiv. 722. 

 Herodotus i. *93. iv. *71. v. *8 : wherein he respectively describes the 

 Lydiau, Scythian, and Thraciau Bairows. 

 Virgil ^neid iii. 63. '304. 

 V. *60o. 



vi. 232—235. *380. *r,()o. 

 vii. 1—6. 



xi. *]03. *394. 850, 

 Ovid Metam. vii. 362. 



xiv. 84. 101, 

 Tacitus de Mor : Germ : c. 27. Annales, lib. i. c. 62, 

 Seneca de Consol : ad Polyb : § 37. 

 Appian, pt. 2, c. 2, § 27. 

 Cicero de legib : lib. 2. 



Vopiscus de Probe, wherein it is stated that Arcadius had a tumulus erected 

 for him 200 feet broad. 



^ " All around Stonehenge are barrows extending to a considerable distance 

 from the temple, but all in view of it, so that like Christians of the present age, 

 ancient Britons thought proper to bury their dead near where they worshipped 

 the Supreme Being." [Spencer's Wilts, p. 79.] Stukeley in his Itiner : 

 Curios: vol. i, p. 128, describing what he supposed to be " Carvilii tumulus," 

 the grave of a king of the Belga) near Wilton, within sight of Stonehenge, says, 

 " I question not but one purpose of this interment was to be in sight of the 

 holy work or temple of Stonehenge;" "and here," he concludes, "rest the 

 ashes of Carvilius, made immortal by Cccsar for bravely defending his country." 

 Again, he says, speaking of the vast number of barrows round Stonehenge, 

 " We may very readily count fifty at a time in sight from the place," and again 

 at a short distance off be declares he could count 128 barrows in sight. 

 [Stonehenge, pp. 43,45. Abury, p. 40.] See also " Lost Solar System of the 



