- Stonehenge the latest of the Druid temples, Page 1, 17, 66
- Older than the time of the Saxons and Danes, 1, 2, 3, 7, 47
- Older than the time of the Roman Britons, 1, 2, 32
- Older than the time of the BelgÆ, who preceded the Roman invasion, 4, 8, 9, 47
- The history of the BelgÆ seated about Stonehenge, in CÆsar’s time, 4, 8, 47
- Our Welsh the remains of the BelgÆ, 8
- The Cimbrians the same, 48
- Of the Wansdike: made by Divitiacus, 4, 47
- Of Vespasian’s camp Ambresbury, 49
- The stones of Stonehenge are from the gray weathers on Marlborough downs, 5, 47
- Of their nature, magnitude, weight, 5, 6
- Of their number, 30
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- Mr. Webb’s drawings of Stonehenge false, 3, 22, 25
- Absurd to compare the work to Roman or Grecian orders, 6, 10, 16, 20, 21, 28
- The cell not form’d from three equilateral triangles, 3, 18, 24, 33
- But one entrance into the area, 3, 18, 23, 33
- He makes one side of the cell out of a bit of a loose stone, 29
- He has turn’d the cell a sixth part from its true situation, 3, 22
- The cell not a hexagon, but an oval, 20, 22, 29
- Demonstrated by Lord Pembroke’s measure, 28
- Demonstrated by trigonometry, 22
- Proved by the surgeons amphitheater, London, being an imitation thereof, 25
- Stonehenge not made by the Roman foot, 6
- Webb makes the inner circle, of thirty stones, instead of forty, 20
- He contracts 119 feet to 43, 39
- Of its two wings, 35, 38, 41, 57
- Eastern wing, its variation, 36, 56, 57, 64, 65
- Of the Hippodrom or Cursus, 13, 41, 56
- Its variation, 42, 57
- The Romans borrowed the British chariots, 42
- The eastern meta, its variation, 57
- Other like works, in other parts of England, 43
- The via Iceniana, 9
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- Of the barrows or sepulchral tumuli, 43
- Druid barrows, 10, 45
- Arch-Druids barrows, 38
- Urn burial, 44, 46
- The bodies lay north and south, 45
- Beads of amber, glass, gold, &c. found, ibid.
- Horses, dogs, and other animals buried with them, 46
- Carvilius’s tomb, 4, 44, 46
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- The magnetical compass known to Hercules, the Phoenicians and Arabians, 57
- The oracle of Jupiter Ammon had a compass, 59, 61, 62
- The golden fleece was a compass, 60, 62
- How the compass was forgot, 55, 58, 63, 64
- Apher grandson of Abraham, companion of Hercules, from Arabia, 53, 62, 63
- He gave name to Africa and to Britain, 53, 62, 63
- A scheme of the variation of the compass, 65
- A conjecture therefrom, when Stonehenge was founded, 65
FINIS. Transcriber’s Notes: - Blank pages have been removed.
- A few obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
- Otherwise spelling and hyphenation variations remain unchanged.
- Made illustration captions more consistent.
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