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stating of the walls of TIRYNS, that, with the 
exception of the interior structure of the 
Pyramids of Egypt, a more marvellous result of 
human labour has not been found upon earth. 
The Celts have left in Great Britain a surprising 
specimen of the Cyclopean style in architec- 
ture: and it may be said of their temple at 
Stonekenge, that it has all the marks of a 
Phoenician building 4 : hence a conclusion might 
be deduced, that the Celts were originally 
Phoenicians., or that they -have left in Phoenice 
monuments of their former residence in that ? ri 5 ll , of 
the Cyclo- 
country. If it be asked, in what region of .the P* an st y le - 
(4) Stonehenge might be C9nsidered as ^Phoenician ^building, from its 
resemblance to the style of the architecture observed upon the eastern 
shores of the Mediterranean, added to the knowledge we have of 
Phoenician settlements upon our south-western coasts : but the same 
kind of building exists in the northern parts of our island, and in 
Ireland, and may be noticed over all the territories of the Belgae and 
Cimbri. Having accidentally alluded to this remarkable structure, it 
would be worse than mere omission to avoid noticing an observation 
concerning it by that learned antiquary R. P. Knight, Esq. as founded 
upon a fragment of the writings of HECAT-EUS. " From a passage of 
Hecat&us, preserved by Diodorus Siculus, I think it is evident that 
Stonekenge, and all the other monuments of the same kind found in the 
North, belonged to the same religion which appears, at some remote 
period, to have prevailed over the whole Northern hemisphere. 
According to the same historian, the Hyperboreans inhabited an island 
beyond Gaul, as large as Sicily, in which dpollo teas worshipped in a 
circular temple considerable for Us size and riches." 
