246 Existing Analogues of Stonehenge and Avebury. 



The almost square base of the grand temple in Minorca, ap- 

 proaches — notwithstanding its rounded corners — to the rectilinear, if 

 not rectangular, style of Cyclopean work in Samothrace, one of the 

 oldest examples, and probably of the time of the Cabiri in that 

 island. There is so much resemblance in the accounts of the Cabiri 

 and the Cyclopes that the mere distance in their occupation, the one 

 of the eastern the other of the western islands in the Mediterranean, 

 is sufficient to account for the difference of identification. 



As these monuments are so unlike any elsewhere known to exist, 

 I have thought it right, not only to exhibit drawings, made on the 

 spot, but photographs of some of them. 



Dr. Phene then explained the many interesting views with which 

 the various objects of his lecture were illustrated on the wall of the 

 assembly-room, and concluded with a few remarks on other relics of 

 the past to be found in Minorca. Alluding to the previous night's 

 lecture on " the Viking's Ship/'' he said the interest in it fell far 

 short of what was found there. For in Minorca, as the photographs 

 represented, were perfect ships, quite as large, built of stone, in vast 

 blocks, in which the masts were represented in their insertion into 

 the keel, and the whole design was as complete as in Scandinavia. 

 But the stone ships in Minorca are all inverted. 



The monuments themselves, as shown by the photographs, and 

 compared with photographs of the earliest Cyclopean masonry of 

 Greece, and that of Samothrace, discovered by Dr. Phene, and 

 published in the Builder from his drawings, are found to be of the 

 very earliest type. They assimilate more to the most ancient circular 

 structures in Etruria than to any other remains. 



Eael Nelson said they were very much indebted to Dr. Phene 

 for his very interesting lecture, which had been made the more in- 

 teresting by the beautiful illustrations which they saw before them. 

 The noble earl then invited discussion, and called on Mr. William 

 Cunnington to say a few words. 



Mr. Cunnington said he considered Dr. Phene's paper was the 

 most important which had been read for a long time on Stonehenge, 

 for there seemed to be many points of analogy between what had been 

 described by Dr. Phene and Stonehenge. It was his grandfather's 



