By W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S. 



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Maton. W. Gr. 1843. Natural History of part of Wilts; 

 8vo., 74 pp. : London. 



Contains lists of the various species of plants and animals observed. " The 

 Bustard was formerly an inhabitant of Salisbury Plain, but the writer 

 believes that one might as successfully look for an ostrich there in the 

 present day " (p. 5). 



Matthew Paris [d. 1259]: Historian and monk of St. Albans. 

 1259. Chronica Majora: (Greater History of England.) 

 1872—83. Edition by Eev. H. K. Luard (Eolls Series, No. 57) ; 

 seven vols., 8vo. : London. 



A general repetition of Geoffrey of Monmouth's legends. See Vol. I., 

 p. 198, " Stanhenges ; pp. 222 — 3, 226, the bringing of the stones from 

 Kildare ; p. 227, Aurelius Ambrosius buried at Stonehenge ; p. 223, Uther 

 Pendragon, and (p. 243) Constantine, king of the Britons, also interred 

 there. 



Maurice, Rev. Thomas [1754 — 1824] : Oriental scholar. 

 1793 — 1800. Indian Antiquities ; seven vols., 8vo. [c. 300 pp. 



each] : London. 

 Later Editions, 1794—1800 ; and 1806. 



The Druids were " the immediate descendants of a tribe of Brahmins." 

 Stonehenge is shown in a folding plate. It is a " stupendous solar temple : 

 the circle indicates his disk ; and the number of stones forming it being 

 sixty, the great sexagenary cycle of the Asiatic astronomers." Vol. VI. 

 (pub. 1796), from which the above extracts are taken, consists of two parts, 

 The first part contains a folding plate of Stonehenge from the N.E. (facing 

 p. 153). The second part has a frontispiece of the N.E. entrance, looking 

 outwards from the centre of the circle. This plate is marked " Barlow 

 sculp." The chapter on Stonehenge occupies pp. 152 — 166. 



Mayhew, A. L. 1881. Etymology of " Stonehenge." Notes 

 and Queries, ser. 6 ; III., 125. 



" The Welsh name for Stonehenge is Cor Gawr, the Circle of the Giants." 



Meade, Lieut. Hon. H. : Naval officer. 

 1870. Ride through New Zealand ; with some account of the 

 South Sea Islands; 8vo., x., 375 : London. 



Mentions (p. 300) a " Tongan Stonehenge," or trilithon near Nukualofa. 

 "Two blocks of stone about 25 feet high support a horizontal one about 

 half as long again. In the centre of the latter is a circular hollow or basin." 



Meade, L. T., and R. Eustace. 1900. " Followed." 

 Strand Mag., XX., 605 — 617 ; illustrated. 

 A sensational story, the scene of which is in part laid at Stonehenge. 



