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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ... as the outer pair, the highest eight feet.--Within these are nineteen more smaller stones, of which only six are standing. At the upper end of the adytum is the altar, a large slab of blue coarse marble, twenty inches thick, six teen feet long, and four broad; pressed down by the weight of the vast stones that have fallen upon it. The whole number of stones, uprights, imposts, and ' altar, is exactly'one hundred and forty. The stones are far from being arti ficial, but were most probably brought from those called the Grey Veathers, on Marlborough Downs, fifteen or sixteen miles. olf; and if tried with a tool, they appear of the same hardness, grain, and. colour, generally redish.--The heads of oxen, deer, and other beasts, have been found in digging in and about Stone henge; but the human bones our author speaks of, only in the circumjacent ban rows. Dr.' Stukeley, in 1723, dug on the ini side of the altar, to a bed of solid chalk, . mixed with flints.--In the reign of Henry VIII. was found here, a plate of tin, in scribed with many letters, but in so strange a character, that neither Sir Thomas El liot, a learned antiquary, nor Mr. Lilly, master of St. Paul's school, could make them out. This plate, to the great loss of the learned world, was soon after lost. Two stone pillars appear at the foot of the bank next the area in which the build ing stands; and those are answered by two spherical pits, at the foot of the said bank; one with a single bank of...