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OF THE DRUIDS. 145Meineu'gui/r, which is of the same import withCromlechu.In Caithness and other remote partsof Scotland, these Cromleacs are very nume-and others, not so muchrous, some pretty entire;consum'd by time or thrown down by storms, asdisordered and demolish'd by the hands of men.But no such altars were ever found by OlausWormius, the great northern antiquary (which Idesirethe abettors of Dr. Charlton to note) norby any others in the temples of the Gothic nations;as I term all who speak the several dialects ofGothic original, from Izeland to Switzerland, andfrom the Bril in Holland to Presburg in Hungary,the Bohemians and Polanders excepted. TheDruids were onely co-extended with theCelticdialects : besides that Cesar says expresly, therewere no Druids among the Germans*, with whomhe says as expresly that seeing andfeeling ivas believing(honoring onely the sun, the fire, and the^moon, by ivhich they ivere manifestly benefited) andthat they made no sacrifices at all: which, ofcourse, made altars as useless there (tho' afterwardsgrown fashionable) as they were necessaryin the Druids temples, and which they showmore than probably to have been temples indeed;* German! neque Druides habent, qui rebus diviais pr».sint, neque sacrificiis student. Deorum numero eos solos du«cunt, quos cernunt^ et quorum operibus apcTte jiivantur ; Solem,et Vulcanum, et Lunam; reliquoi n© fama quidem acceperunt.De Bello QalliGo^ lib. 6.S