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his affiHants; beneath was an elevated platform for the 
parties, their friends, and conpurgators, who fometimes 
amounted to a hundred or more ; and this plat-form was 
furrounded with a trench to fecure it from the acce'fs of 
mere fpeftators. Of the other monuments of this pe¬ 
riod, a more brief conlideration will (uffice. When a 
monarch, or diftinguifiied general, was buried, a barrow 
or hillock was erected to prefervehis name and memory to 
future ages : the fize depending on the reputation of the 
pcrfon, which attradled a l'maller or larger number of opera¬ 
tors. Such monuments are very ancient, and even to this 
day, according to Dallaway, Morritt, and others, denote 
the fepulchres of fome of the heroes of the Trojan war. 
In later times a large Angle done erefted was efteemed a 
fufficient memorial : Inch Angle (tones alfo fometimes 
appear as monuments of remarkable battles, or merely 
as boundaries.” 
Dr. Bryant has endeavoured to (hew, that the religion 
of the druids was the worfliip of the fun, which pre¬ 
vailed univerfally over all nations of the earth in thofe 
primitive ages, when the people had apoftatifed from the 
worfliip of the true God, and reforted to “ groves” and 
“high places;” fo much deprecated in the holy fcrip- 
tures. “ High groves, and ancient woods-of oak, (fays 
this author,) were named faron ; and as oaks were filled 
faronids, fo likewife were the ancient druids, by whom 
the oak was held fo facred. Hence Diodorus Siculus, 
fpeaking of the priefts of Gaul, (files them (piAoooipoi, 
$£o\cy<n —'ETEpi-flus b.v$ SAPDNIAA2 ovcy.a.tovc i. 
This is oiie proof among many how far the Antonian re¬ 
ligion, or worlhip of the fun, was extended: and how 
little we know of druidical worfiiip, either in refpedt to 
its effence or its origin. The practice of (hewing a re¬ 
verential regard to huge (tones, and fragments of rocks, 
which were particularly uncouth and horrid, prevailed 
alio in many countries. It vvas ufual with much labour 
to place one vaft (lone upon another for a religious me¬ 
morial. The (tones thus placed, they oftentimes poized 
fo equably, that they were affected with the leafi external 
force: nay, a breatli of wind would fome;imes make 
them vibrate. We have many inftances in our own coun¬ 
try ; and they are to be found in other parts of the world : 
and wherever they occur we may efteem them of the 
highefi antiquity. All fuch works we generally refer to 
the Celts, and druids ; under the fandtion of which names 
we (belter ourfelves, whenever we are ignorant and be¬ 
wildered. But they were the operations of a very remote 
age; probably before the time, when the druids, or cel- 
tae, were firfi known. I quefiion, whether there be in 
the world a monument, which is much prior to the cele¬ 
brated Stonehenge. There is realon to think, that it was 
ereited by a foreign colony ; one of the firft, which came 
into the ill and. Here is extant at this day, one of thofe 
rocking (tones, of which I have been fpeaking. 
“The ancients difiinguifhed (tones eredtea with a reli¬ 
gious view by the name of amber-, by which was Agnified 
any thing folar and divine. The Grecians called them 
vflik i ayJofotriu. i; and there- are reprefentations of fuch 
upon coins. Stonehenge is compofed of thefe amber- 
ltones : hence the next town is denominated Ambros-bury ; 
not from a Roman Ambrofius, for no fuch perfon exifted ; 
but from the ambrofas petra: , in whole vicinity it 
(lands. Some of thefe were rockkig (tones ; and there 
was a wonderful monument of this fort near Penzance in 
Corns‘Ml. It (till retains the name of main-amber , by 
whicgfis Agnified the facred fones. The like myfteries, 
according to Artemidorus, prevailed in one of the Bri- 
ti(h iflands; in which, he lays, that the worfliip of Da- 
mater was carried on with the fame rites as in Samothra- 
cia. Strabo, I.4. I make no doubt, but that this hiftory 
was true, and that thefe rites prevailed in many parts of 
Britain, efpecially in the ifle of Mona, i. e. Anglefey ; 
where, in aftertimes, was the chief feat of the faronides, 
or druids. Monai lignifies infula felenites. It was fome- 
times expreffed Menai: as is evident from the frith be» 
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tween tlieifland and the main land being (tiled Aber Menai, 
at this day. Aber Men Ai Agnifies freturn infula deiluni ; 
which ifla.nd undoubtedly had this name from its rites.. 
The fame worfliip was probably extended to fome of the 
Scottifli ifles, the Hebrides of the ancients, and particu¬ 
larly into that called Columbkil.” For a further eluci¬ 
dation, fee the articles Anglesey, vol. i. p.7oo; Bard, 
vol. ii. p. 716 ; and Barrow, p. 758. 
DRUl'DICAL, adj. Relating to the druids.—Any 
druidical anecdotes I can meet with I will be fure to fend 
yon. Gray. 
DRU'IDISM, [ The religion of the druids.—It was 
referved for Dr. Borlafe to lay open the whole lyftem of 
druidifm. Gough. 
DRUM, / \_trommc, Dan. dr mime, Erfe.] An inftru- 
ment of military niuflc, confiding of vellum (trained over 
a broad hoop on each Tide, and beaten with (ticks.— Kettle 
Drums are in the (Rape-or form of large batons of copper 
or brafs, rounded in the bottom, and covered with vel¬ 
lum or goat (kin, which is kept faft by a circle of iron 
round the body of the drum. They are tifed among the 
cavalry, and in concerts of mufic, &c. The drum is by 
Le Clerc (aid to have been an oriental invention, and to 
have been brought by the Moors into Spain.—Let’s 
march without the noife of threatening -drums. Shakefpeare. 
Now no more the drum 
Provokes to arms, or trumpet’s clangor flirill 
Affrights the wives, and chills the virgin’s blood. Philips. 
The tympanum of the ear, or the membrane which per¬ 
ceives the vibration of the air, or of found. A fine fieve. 
—A word once in vogue for a large alfembly of vifitors— 
From the duchefs at her drum to the landlady behind her 
bar. Fielding. 
And oft though Juno begg’d (he’d come 
To Mount Olympus, to her drum, 
Yet (he refus’d. Mafon. 
To DRUM, v. n. To beat a drum ; to beat a tune on 
a drum. To beat with a pulfatory motion : 
Now, heart, 
Set ope thy fluices, fend the vigorous blood 
Through every adtive limb for my relief; 
Then take thy reft within the quiet cell, 
For thou (halt drum no more. Dryden. 
DRUM, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leitz- 
meritz : three miles fouth of Leypa. 
DRUM, mountains of Ireland, in the county of Water¬ 
ford : three miles fouth-weft of Dungarvan. 
DRUM POINT, a cape of the American States, on 
the north Aide of the Patuxen, at the mouth oppofite Ce¬ 
dar Point. 
To DRUM'BLE, v. n. To drone; to be fluggifii. Man¬ 
ner.— Takes up thefe clothes here quickly : where is the 
cowiftaff ? Look, how you drumble! carry them to the 
landrefs in Datchet Mead. Shakefpeare. 
DRUM'BOTE, a town in Ireland, in the county of 
Monaghan, and province of Ulfter. 
DRUMLANRI'G, a town of Scotland, in the county 
of Dumfries, fituated on the Nith : thirteen miles north 
of Dumfries. 
DRUMMA'JOR,_/; The chief drummer of a regiment: 
Such company may chance to fpoil the fwearing, 
And the drum-major' s oaths, of bulk unruly, 
May dwindle to a feeble — Cleaveland. 
DRUM'MAKER, f. He who deals in drums.—The 
drummaker ufes it, and the cabinetmaker. Mortimer. 
DRUM'MER,y. He whofe office is 10 beat the drum. 
— Drummer , (trike up, and let us march away . Shakefpeare . 
Here rows of drummers (land in martial file, 
And with their vellum-thunder (hake the pile. Gay. 
DRUM'MING, part. adj. Beating a drum ; difearding 
by beat of drum. 
DRUM'MOND (William), an elegant Scottifli poetj, 
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