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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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else about them. Whether they were a temple erectedto some heathen deity, or whether they were mere sepulchral monu-ments, are questions buried in the past. No Runic inscriptions havebeen handed down to be interpreted by the wise. Some great object Salisbury and Stonehenge. 211 they must have served, and from the labour and stupendous exertionsit evidently cost to erect them, it seems probable that the object wasreligious. The one certain thing about Stonehenge is that it onceexisted, and that it remains to this day a grand ruin. Dr. Smith, writing in 1771, considered that it was most likely aTropical Temple erected by the Druids for observing the motions ofthe heavenly bodies, and in an elaborate exposition he brings forwardmuch cunning argument to prove his case. It is well known that theDruids were skilled astronomers, and, as Caesar states, calculatedeclipses with great accuracy. And there are signs about Stonehenge—such as the rising of the sun on Midsummer Day immediately over
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Salisbury, from the River. a certain stone in a particular position—which, at least, do notcontradict Dr. Smiths theory. Three of the stones fell in January, 1797. Some men ploughinga field about half a mile away, suddenly felt the earth tremble, andon looking round saw that three of the stones—a trilith (two uprightstones and one placed horizontally upon them)—had fallen to theearth Many great men have visited Stonehenge in the past, and left somerecord of their impressions. Pepys in his Diary mentions his stay atSalisbury, where he slept in a silk bed at the Kings Arms, and, Ithink, goes on to speak of Stonehenge. And we find Dr. Johnson—the great lexicographer, to quote once more the austere MissPinkerton—thus writing to Mrs, Thrale in 1783 : _ i a Salisbury and Stonehenge. Two nights ago Mr. Burke sat with me a long time; he seemsmuch pleased with his journey. We had both seen Stonehenge thissummer for the first time. I told him the view had enabled me toconfute two opin

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