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of them.OF THE DRUIDS. 141Thus some are become h »wcr, or jagged,many areor otherwise h'regular and diminished:quite wasted, and moss or scurf hides the inscriptionsor sculptures of others;there are infor such sculpturesseveral places, particularly in Walesand the Scottish ile of Aran. That one sort ofstone lasts longer than another is true: but thatall will have their period, no less than parchmentand paper, is as true.XIII. There area great many of the altars tobe seen yet intire in Wales, particularly two inKerig Y Drudion parish mention d in my otherletter, and one in Lhan-Hammulch parish iuBrecknockshire; with abundance elsewhere, diligentlyobsei-v'd by one I mentioned in my first letter,Mr. Edward Lhuyd, who yet was not certainto what use they were destin'd.favor of your lordship to take itHere I beg thefor granted, thatI have sufficient authorities for every thing I alledge:and tho' I do not always give them in thisbrief specimen, yet in the history itself, they shall])e produc'd on every proper occasion. The Druidsaltars were connnonly inthe middle of the temples,near the great colossus, of which presently;as there is now such a one at Carn-Lhechart, iuthe parish of Lhan-Gyvelach, in Glamorganshire,besides that which I mention'd before in Scotland.They are by the Welsh in the singular numbercaird Kist-vaeii, that isplural Kistieii'Vaeny stone-chests.a stone-chest, and in theThese name^,