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dated here in an elegant manner ; but being free from noife and 
hurry, it was more comfortable to me than the inns in great 
towns. 
After dinner we fet out for ambresbury, diftant about nine 
miles, over the fine turf of Salisbury plain. The computed 
miles of thefe crofs-roads appear much longer than meafured 
ones ; or perhaps it is, becaufe here are no mile-ftones, which 
by convincing us that we are in the right path, beguile the way. 
I am yours, £§Pc. 
LETTER XXXV. 
To the fame . 
Madam, 
I T was not till the clofe of this evening when we arrived at 
stone-henge, which lies within the diftance of three or four 
miles from ambresbury. We had not time to furvey thefe fiones 
with that awful homage which is due to fuch remains of anti- 
quity. If we contemplate them on a fuppofition of their having 
been once embo welled in the earth, juft where they now ftand, 
and the foil wafhed from them by the deluge, it fills the foul 
with religious fear, and awakens the heart to a fenfe of that in- 
finite juftice, which once condemn’d mankind to abandon their 
iniquities with their lives. This thought occurred to me front 
having often feen in Portugal, rocks which bear fome refem- 
blance to thefe ftones in the pofition, but where no- body ever 
imagined any art had been employed ; but here they fay are 
marks of human defign, and the labor of mens hands. 
