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mms\ For ’Plniarch exprdly tells us, that ont Demetrlui 
failed hither, as well as to other Britiflj JjJes in the Reign, 
of Adrian. Tis no wonder that Runick hfcriptlons are 
difcovered in the Rlaces. Roman V ms are found* 
Thofe Infcriptfons might have been made upon other 
/lons xihQx it became in future Ages inhabited by Danes 
aj;jid Normgians, The fame Accident has fometimes hap- 
pen’d, in England^ And Mr. Camden particularly relates 
in the Clofe of his Difeourfe concerning Stone- Henge, that 
in the Time of King Hen. Vlllth. was found at S"one» 
Henge a Table of mixt Metal on which v/cre ingrav’d ma- 
ny Letters^ but the Chara^i^er was fo firange that neither 
Sir Thomas Elyot, nor Mr, Lilly^ the famous SchwlMa* 
J?er of'St. PauPs, could tell what to make of them, and 
fo there was no care taken to preCexve the Monument, the 
Lofs of which was afterwards much lamented by Qlaus 
WormiuSy who thought it to be Runic^^ as without que- 
hion it. was: and yet Stone- Henge itfelf is a Roman 
V/orkt a-S has been made out by Mr. Inigo Jones, who 
tho* he was confuted by the late lear ned Dr. Charkto7r, 
yet Mr. Jgnes'sOpmion was very well defended by Mr. 
John Webb^ who has in his Book diftindtly examined the x 
Methods madeufe of both by the Romans and the Dams 
in their Buildings, 
§. 5. Having proceeded thus far in this Inquiry, and 
fliew’d that thefe Inftruments not nuiitary Arms- 
either of the Britains, or of the Saxons, or of the Danes,. 
I dial] now carry ioon farther and endeavour to prove that 
they are owing to the Romans, which is what I have before: 
infinuated., I once thought that they were a fort of Jxes^. 
which the Romans made ufe of in thhr Saalfces, ot 
which Dr. Plot takes notice of two forts, the fecures La- 
pide<e2ix\{\ the fecures Cuprea^ tho’ Dr. Leigh will have his 
Inflances to be both Indian. Upon a more narrow con- 
f deration of the Roman facrificing InJirumentSyl have quite 
chang’d 
