Memoir of the late Charles Edward Long, Esq. 



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Scale, co. Surrey, and his cousin, Henry Lawes Long, Esq., of 

 Hampton-lodge in the same county, who was with him during 

 the last fortnight at Dover, is left his executor. 1 



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^HE important paper on Abury, in the fourth volume of the 

 ^ Magazine (No. XII, published January, 1858), was illus- 

 trated by numerous lithographic plates and woodcuts, the consider- 

 able cost of which was most liberally defrayed by the author, 

 William Long, Esq., M.A., of Bath. 



Among the more curious of these illustrations, were the plates 

 Nos. II. and III., pp. 315, 317, exhibiting, on a reduced scale, the 

 earliest plans known to have been made of the extensive works and 

 circles at Avebury ; viz. those by the Wiltshire antiquary, John 

 Aubrey, and which had remained unpublished for nearly two 

 centuries. 



Early in the last year, on a minute comparison with the originals 

 in the Bodleian Library, by the Rev. Canon Jackson, it was ascer- 

 tained that in copying the original of the first of these plates, — the 

 " Survey of Aubury," the Oxford artist had unfortunately omitted 

 three of the stones therein shown, and had somewhat misplaced a 

 fourth. This coming to Mr. Long's knowledge, he at once decided 

 to have fac-simile drawings, of the full size, made ; and to present 

 them when lithographed, to the Members of the Society. Through 

 Mr. Long's zeal and liberality, we have now the gratification of 

 adding the two new plates, as a sequel to the paper on Abury. 



It is necessary to point out, that of the stones omitted from 

 the " Survey," one is on the right of the avenue in the " way to 

 Kinnet ; " a second is in the " grafie " or ditch to the right of the 

 entrance to the great circle ; and the third is on the right side of 



1 We are indebted for the greater part of the above notice to the November 

 number of the Gentleman's Magazine. 



