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:;OF THE DRUIDS. 137rudder in the middle. The sea, consider'd as adi villi (y, was by the ancient Gauls call'd Anvanaor Onvana, as the raging sea isin so many letters by the Irish*;still call'd Anafaand both of 'em,besides that they were very good astronomers, areknown to have paid honor not only to the sea, butalso to the winds and the tempests, as the Romansf were wont to do. But of this in the accountof their worship.there isI forgot to tell you, thatanother temple about a quarter of a milefrom the former; and that commonly two templesstand near each other, for reasons you will see iuour history.lie of Aran, isabout 30 paces over:East of Drumcruy in the Scottisha circular temple, whose area isand south of the same villageis such another temple, in the center of whichstill remains the altar; being a broad thin stone,supported by three other such stones. This isvery extraordinary, tho' (as you may see in my lastletter) not the onely example; since the zeal of thechristianssometimes apt to be over-heated, us'dto leave no altars standing but their own.In the* They vulgarly call the sea mor or muirf marOy cuatiyfairgeyf Sic fatus, meritos aris mactaTit honoresTaurum Neptuno, taurum tibi, pulcher ApolloNigrara Hyerai pecudem, Zephyris felicibus albam.Aen, lib. 3.Videatur etiara Horatius, Epod. 10. Ter. ult. Cic. de nat,Dsor. lib. J.£t Aristoph. ia Ranis cum luo Scholiaste.R