more efpecially correfponds in defign with the fculptures on the huge ftone mentioned 
by Boetius, which Brands by the way fide at Aeerlemni, in Angus, and is repre!cnt £ 
in the XVIIth Plate of the Second Part of Mr. Pennant’s Tour in Scotland. 
In a conjectural invefirigation it may be lei's exceptionable to refer to N” I. of f iat 
Plate, than to the delineation at B of the prefent one ; becaufe there will be no fufpi c ’ 011 
that the artift employed by Mr. Pennant made his drawing to ferve any hypothec 
but merely to expreis, as far as pofiible, the carvings which he law on the ftone. 
Such caution is rendered requifite, in this age of infidelity, when some of the more t 0 ' 
fpedtable characters of the Royal Society have been kind enough to mention, “ That th v 
“ fymbolical figures on fome of thefe Plates were curious enough, but they could n0t 
<c believe there were any fuch fculptures on the monuments of North Britain as the re 
“ defcribed.” 
In the figure of the ftone at Aberlemni *, it is obfervable that the Sun is reprefented lfl 
the center ; and final! circles, which may have referred to the Moon in her feveral phaf eS ’ 
though not accurately marked, occupy the next iphere ; and the outer circle is divided h lC0 
twelve places, which retain fome diftant veftiges of the early and rude manner of fpec»/ 
ing the divifions of the Zodiac. However remote and ambiguous fome of thefe alhfti ° n5 
may feem to be, they correfpond with the general tenor of the rudiments of early P* et ^ 
and knowledge, as exprefled on the moft ancient monuments, of the dawning philofopW 
of feveral European nations. 
The druidical fyftern of divinity included much regard to the planetary moveme n£S ' 
the feafons depending on the apparent revolutions of the fun, and the days of feftal 
votion being regulated by the feveral phafes of the moon, made marks and figns of c ‘‘ e 
periodical return of firft confequence in their ritual ; which were not wholly done a^ ^ 
for fome time after the inftitutions of Chriftianity began to take place ; we therefore neC 
not be furprized to find veftiges of thefe blended on the Caledonian Obelifks with 1110 
evangelical fymbols ; for thefe carved ftones are not more numerous than are the D lU 
idical circle?, called their temples, near to which they are frequently found. 
III. There is another fource of archetypes that-may be examined. Some of 1 
Crofles, fculptured on ftones that lie adjacent to the oldeft abbies, branch out irl ^ 
many points, and are often included and traverfed by feveral concentric cirles : any 
who will take the trouble of comparing them with the caealistical wheels 
o fdivW' 
tion, made fo much a myftery of by the Jewish Rabeies, will not fail to be wip r ^ 
at the refemblance f . Amid the enigmatical arrangements of lines and angles, T 
infcribed the names of angels, reprefenting the feveral powers of nature adting acC °^ s 
ing to the feveral more powerful configurations of the WORD of m.n\ And as lC 
* Tour in Scotl. II. p. 166. 
f See Oedipus. JEgypt. tom. II. p. 480. 491. figures of the above, refembling tliat at 
with feveral other fimilar ones, lying near to a ruined chapel at Dingwall Roftjhire. 
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