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



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twenty-nine. Two views of Stonehenge (from the S.W. and the N.E.) 

 are often bound up with this volume ; but were not published with it. 

 [See review by " D.H." Gent's Mag., 1771, Vol. XLL, 30—31.] 



Smith, Thos. 1867. Sporting Incidents ; 8vo. : London. 



" Theory of Stonehenge," pp. 104 — 107, with two plates. The stones were 

 transported upon rollers made of trunks of trees furnished with holes for 

 the insertion of levers. A mound of earth was raised upon the present 

 site of Stonehenge. In this mound holes "vyere made into which the great 

 upright stones were dropped ; the imposts were then laid across them. 

 Finally the earth-mound was cleared away. 



Smith, Wm. [1550—1618]: Herald, " Rouge- Drag >on" 

 1588. Description of England : MS. 



1879. Edition by Wheatley and Ashbee ; 4to., xix., 72 ; map and 

 twenty-eight coloured plates : London. 



The original MS. is in the British Museum. Stonehenge is named as one 

 of the " seven wonders" of England, A tinted " picture " [Plate XXII.] 

 of the monument is given, in which five of the great trilithons are shown 

 as then erect and complete. Smith repeats Geoffrey's legend about the 

 " Stonhedge " or " Stonhenge " being erected by " Aurelius Ambrose " in 

 470 A.D. 



Soane, Sir John [1753—1837]: Architect 

 The Soane Museum, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, contains a 

 - model of Stonehenge. This model must have been made before 

 179 7, inasmuch as it shows the great western trilithon as still erect. 



Southey, Robt. [1774—1843] : Poet. 

 1796. Inscriptions : III., for a Tablet at Silbury Hill ; see 

 Vol. III., p. 105, of Soutbey's " "Works " ; edition of 1859 : London. 

 Treats the hill as a sepulchral mound — " In his narrow house, some warrior 

 sleeps below." 



1798. Sonnet XIII. ; to the Sun. 



See Vol. II., p. 96, of Southey's " Works" ; edition of 1837 ; 12mo. : London. 

 Sowerby, Jas. [1757 — 1822] : Mineralogist, etc. 

 1812. [See Hoare's Ancient Wiltshire, I., 149 — 50.] 



Early in the nineteenth century, Sir E. C. Hoare sent to Mr. Sowerby a 

 small specimen of each and every stone which forms the circles and 

 horseshoes of Stonehenge. The sarsens Sowerby defined as a " fine-grained 

 species of siliceous sandstone " ; of the other stones, twenty-six are " an 

 aggregate of quartz, feldspar, chlorite and hornblend ; one is a siliceous 



