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|^*pjTIE Editors do not venture a remark on the following 

 |j|j§fi opinions on Stonehenge, which have been published during 

 the month of June, 1869. 



I. " That Stonehenge was a place of burial and not a temple, is 

 proved by analogy, as the stone circles of Khassia, Algiers, 

 Penrhyn Island, are all sepulchral." From a paper " On 

 Cromlechs and Megalithic Structures," by Hodder M. 

 "Westropp, in "Scientific Opinion," June 9th, 1869. 



II. " Whatever the date of Stonehenge, there can be little doubt 

 that as a temple it represents that ancient, nay, that patri- 

 archal worship which identified itself with the erection of 

 commemorative stones." From an address by J. W. Morris, 

 President of the Bath Church of England Young Mens' 

 Society, June 14th, 1869. 



III. " Other points of resemblance between Stonehenge and the 

 Dracontine Temples of India, may be pointed out." * * " Here 

 then we may seem to have a clue to the origin and adaptation 

 of the Megalithic circular temples of our own island ; they 

 are the surviving memorials of a Turanian people, who in the 

 far distant past were the sole inhabitants of whose existence 

 we have any knowledge. These they raised, and they still 

 remain, abundant evidence of the influence and persistency of 

 that peculiar form of worship which was then cultivated — the 

 worship of the serpent — the oldest form of religious idea." 

 From a paper read at Salisbury, June 15th, 1869, by Rev. 

 J. Kirwan. 



