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1OF THE DRUIDS. 11made of the first stones that offer. From the devotionalromids performVl about the earns m timesof heathenism, and which, as we shall see anon,are yet continued in many places of the ScottishHighlands and theHebrides, any circle, or turningabout, is in Armoric cali'd cern^^ as cerna inthat dialect is to make such a turn. On the earncali'd Crig-y'dyrn, in the parish of Tre'Iech mCaermarthenshire, the flat stone on the top isthree yards in length, five foot over, and from tento twelve inches thick. The circumference of thisearn at the bottom isabout six yards high ;about sixty yards, and 'tisthe ascent being very easy,tho' I suppose there was originally a ladder forthis purpose.II. Let this earn serve for an example of therest, as to their form and bulk ;only we may takenotice here by the way, what odd imaginationsmen are apt to have of things they do not understand.Thus Mr. William Sacheverell, governorof the He of Man under the right honorable the earlof Derby, in part of King V/illianrs reign, mistakingthese earns! in his description of that iland, '* Thetops of the mountains (says he) seem nothing butthe rubbish of nature, thrown into barren and unfruitfulheaps, as near two thirds of the iland areof this sort.remark, as theSome seem particularly worthy ourtwo JBarowh, Skefjall, tlie ^^ ateh-* C is pronouac'd as K. i Page 13.