Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids

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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
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, 33
He draws a stone on the vallum 120 foot out of its true place, 14
Stonehenge not a monument, 40
The Druids came with an oriental colony, upon the first Celtic inhabitants, 62, 63
Introduc’d here by the Tyrian Hercules, 7, 31, 32, 50, 52, 55, 63
The colony were Phœnicians or Arabians, 63, 66
They found out our tin mines, 32, 55, 63
The Druids came hither about Abraham’s time or soon after, 2, 7, 31, 32, 49, 52
They were of the patriarchal religion, 1, 2, 17
Which was the same as christianity, 2, 54
Stonehenge prov’d the work of the Druids from the infinite number of the like, all over the Britannic isles, 3, 8
Farther suggestions: because accounted sacred, made by magic, medicinal, came from Ireland, Spain, Afric, Egypt. In some places the name of Druids remaining, 3, 5, 9, 47, 48
From the antiquities dug up about them, 4, 45, 46
Schetland isles the Hyperboreans of the Greeks, thence Abaris the Pythagorean philosopher, 40
Stonehenge not built by the Saxons, deduced from its name, 7, 47
Demonstrated to be older than Roman times, 9, 10
Such in countries never conquered by the Romans, 3
Stonehenge and such works built by the Phœnician colony, 8, 9, 32, 49
The cathedral of the Arch-Druid, 8, 10, 32
Called antiently the Ambres, 9, 47
Thence Vespasian’s camp, and Ambresbury nam’d, 49
Stonehenge call’d choir gaur: the great church or cathedral, 4, 47
Made with mortaise and tenon, unusual with the Romans, 18
Made by the ancient Hebrew, Phœnician cubit, 6, 12, 28
Its proportion to our foot, 6, 11, 15, 26, 30, 32
The ancient decempedum, 12
The Druids were geometricians, 16, 18, 27, 42
Knew the use of the compass, 57, 63
They carried a little ax to cut down misletoe, 39, 48
The Druids letter, 31, 54
The patriarchal temples were open, 19, 23, 30, 39, 40, 46, 52, 54, 58
Moses’s tabernacle the first cover’d temple, 23, 24, 58
Patriarchal temples, 19, 40, 46, 50, 51, 54
Of rude stones, unchizel’d, 66
The kebla, 24, 30, 40, 54
Had no statues, 55
Patriarchal altars, 30, 50, 52
Their temples fronted the east, 35
Their temples were consecrated and endowed, 52
Paying tythe, 52, 55
Bowing, a part of worship, 33, 34
They officiated barefooted, 55
They practised chastity, before officiating, ibid.
The priests wore white linen surplices at the time of officiating, 24, 55
Their publick devotion was call’d praying, or invoking, in the NAME, 52
They believ’d a future state, 31
They gave notice of religious festivals by fire, 37
Those were the quarterly sacrifices, ibid.
The manner of sacrificing, 34, 54
They us’d water for purification, 11, 13, 14, 34
Of the water vases at Stonehenge, 11, 13, 14, 34
The stone table there, 34
Of the stones and cavities on the vallum, 11, 14
Crwm-lechen, bowing stones, 33, 34
Human sacrifices, 54
Heathen imitations of the Jews, 46, 60, 62
Main Ambres, rocking stones, gygonia, petræ ambrosiæ, Bæthylia, 18, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54
Ambrosia what? 51, 52
Horned, anointed, analogous to sacred, consecrated, 52, 59
The time when Hercules lived, 52, 53, 58
Hercules built patriarchal temples, where-ever he came, 54, 57
Probably he made the Main Ambre by Pensans, and Biscawoon, 54
Persepolis a patriarchal temple, 19, 46
Of the avenue of Stonehenge, 35, 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
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
The magnetical compass known to Hercules, the Phœnicians 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

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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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