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would require near fixty yoke of oxen : and if thefe could pull 
all together, what ftrength of tackle would be required to drag 
fo great a weight. 
If it is granted that this was an antient temple of the druids, 
and that the figure and dimention of its parts can be traced 
out, it mu ft follow that many ftones have been broken and re- 
moved ; that others have remained for this long trad: of years, is 
the more probable, from their being a kind of blue coarfe mar- 
ble. There are twelve or fourteen of thefe prodigious ftones 
yet (landing near each other, of about 20 leet perpendicular. 
I obferved, that there are fome, of near the fame dimenfions, 
placed horizontal on the upright ftones, and fupported by them. 
It feems as if the different parts of the building conftfted each 
of one folid ftone, hewn to a proper fize : nor ought we to be 
furprized at this kind of pride, ftnce we fee it prevail in every 
quarter of the globe where grand edifices are ereded, tho’ they 
are now differently modified, and more labor’d with ornaments, 
than thefe probably were. We are told, that the foundations of 
thefe ftones are made by holes dug in the chalk, which is found 
here after a fhallow ftratum of earth. The greateft part of thefe 
downs are chalk near the furface, notwithftanding many parts 
of them have, in thefe latter ages of induftry and (kill, been 
converted into corn-lands. 
What confirms antiquarians in a belief that this was really a 
temple of the druids, is the great number of barrows or hil- 
locks which furround this place. I think they reckon above a 
hundred, where it is fuppofed the princes and great men of 
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