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the nearest pond. This wonderful performance was accomplished in a very short 
time. 
Helen Wake. 
The Avenues at Ahury. — Will you forgive my calling your attention 
to a curious error of your reviewer on p. 176? He criticises the Story of Ear Ij' 
Man, and says that its author is wrong in speaking of there being two stone 
avenues leading to the circles at Abury. The fact is, there are the remains 
of two very distinctly to be seen. I was there and examined them myself last 
month. In the “ restorations ” of Stukeley (see Almry and its Literature, by 
Rev. T. Bazeley, and Mitchell’s History of Almry) two serpentine avenues, one 
ending in a distant circle and the other at a nientier, are almost the most con- 
spicuous objects in the drawing. It is your reviewer who is wrong, and must 
himself have been writing “ without personal knowledge ” of Abury. 
Fred. Tessions. 
[We were aware when publishing the notice in question that our reviewer was 
personally acquainted with the locality, but have submitted Mr. Tessions’s criti- 
cism to him. In reply, he writes : — “ In regard to the existence of two avenues 
at Abury, I thought it was now generally known that all archaeologists agree that 
Stukeley’s second stone avenue was based simply on Longstone Cove at Beck- 
hampton, and a few scattered stones. There never has been any evidence for the 
Beckhampton Avenue figured on Stukeley’s ‘ restoration,’ and the whole struc- 
ture of the country renders its existence highly improbable. If your correspon- 
dent has found any evidence of the avenue I would recommend that he should 
make an accurate survey, marking the precise spot of the stones, and publish it. 
I have twice worked over the ground with care, and should be interested to see 
the evidence that would re-establish faith in Stukeley. Lukis’ ‘ Report on 
Stonehenge and Abury,’ Proc. Soc. Antiq. (2) ix, 1882, 7, p. 154-5, discusses the 
matter ; it would be easy to give a long list of other references.” — Ed. N. W.] 
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