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which, to be satisfactory to others, must, however, 

 receive farther corroboration than my own individual 

 observations. 



One illustration of the light African explorations 

 promise to throw upon this subject I cannot refrain 

 from advancing, as it is such a striking evidence of 

 the presumed fact of even ourselves having originated 

 from a colony of African emigrants; and that the 

 ancient British temple of Abury, or Abibury, near 

 Stonehenge, derived its name from the same 

 religious worship being there celebrated as was once 

 general on the plateau of Abyssinia, and which, in 

 fact, is so called from exactly the same cause. The 

 deductions of classical learning materially assist a 

 traveller, whose pursuits, so different to a closet 

 student, do not allow him to assume the character 

 of a learned critic or commentator. Dr. Stukley, 

 knowm by his inquiries into the ancient religion of 

 the Druids, has proved, I think incontestably, the 

 true character of the temple at Abibury, and 

 demonstrates it to have been constructed in the 

 form of a serpent, bearing upon its back a circle. 

 He referred the religion, that directed such a 

 form to be assumed in the sacred architecture 

 of this people, to an Egyptian origin, and 

 freely speculates, in consequence, upon the African 

 origin of our ancestors, which is asserted by our 

 most ancient historians, but who have been in 

 consequence considered to be apocryphal. In these 

 traditions it is affirmed that Britain was first 



