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But on fo vacant an occafion, and in 

 regard to the T/"//^ hereof and the HomO" 

 nymia I have in part afTum'd ; I crave to 

 be indulged the liberty firft, of premifing a 

 few animadverfions on the'antient Britijb 

 Druids ; as likev^ife becaufe I have fo long 

 laboured (tho' a la ma?tiere riifiique) to re- 

 build their nemorous temples : In refped: 

 to which, it might indeed have prov'd a 

 more agreeable amufement to a curious an- 

 tiquary, had I been able to have enriched 

 the Ichnography by me exhibited, with' 

 authorities coUedled from their antient Ar^ 

 chives^ to countenance fuch my manner: 

 But all memorial of that fort is periOit with 

 them ; and it is following the chace with- 

 out any fcent; and therefore my pretenii- 

 ons are no higher, (however fo, ambitious 

 enough,) than having offered at a lefs in- 

 ftruftive, at leaft a lefs entertaining equiva- 

 lent — 



That the antient Druids had fome kind 

 of manner of fuch architedture, is highly 

 probable 5 fince many Latin authors have 

 cried them up to have been men of univer- 

 fal learning — In particular Montamis inti- 

 mates. 



