Facsimiles of Aubrey's Plans of Abury. 



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the " southern circle." The stone misplaced is the one immediately 

 adjoining that lust referred to : it was shewn too much to the north, 

 instead of forming part of the segment of a circle with the five 

 stones adjoining. One or two other more trifling inaccuracies may- 

 be observed, on a comparison of the fac-similes with the former plates. 



This correction of the plate involves a corresponding alteration 

 in the first column of the table at p. 326 ; in which the number of 

 stones of the southern circle standing in 1663 should be 22, in place 

 of 21. 



Two or three passages in Aubrey's account of Avebury were also 

 omitted, in the transcript taken of it and its accompanying preface, 

 for Mr. Long's paper. This omission was detected by Dr. Thurnam, 

 on an examination of the MS. volume in the Bodleian Library, in 

 June 1860. The first is an entire paragraph of the preface, which 

 should have followed that ending — " he commanded me to put in 

 print." (Magazine vol. iv. p. 313.) Here, Aubrey continues: 



"But considering that the hinge of the Discourse depends upon 

 Mr. Camden's Kerrig y Druidd: and having often been led out of 

 the way, not only by common reports but by bookes, and for that 

 I had scarcely seen hitherto any antiquitie which did not either 

 fall short of Fame or exceeded it, I was for relying on my own eye- 

 sight ; and would not sett forth this Treatise (commit this Discourse 

 to the presse), till I had taken a journey into North Wales to con- 

 sider that and another called Kerrig y Drewen. But I never had 

 the opportunity to undertake that journey: but lately (169 j) my 

 worthy friend Mr. Edward Lhuyd, Custos of the Museum in Oxford, 

 hath made accurate Observations of the Antiquities in Wales, 

 which I have quoted out of his Annotations to Camden's Britannia. 

 Also I expected an account of such Temples in Scotland, by the 

 help of Sir Robert Moray ; but his death did put a stop to the 

 Edition ; till the yeare 1672 I had the happiness to correspond 

 with the learned Dr. James Garden, Professor of Theologie at 

 Aberdene." 



This passage is important, as showing that the curious "preface," 

 in which Aubrey gives the " storie " of his first " sight of the vast 



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