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of winter, or hiding placesOF THE DRUIDS. 155for men and goods intime of war. The vulgar in the ilands do stillfeihow a great respect forthe Druids house^s ?~ndnever come to the antient sacriiiceing and tire-hallowingearns,them from east toof the sun.but they walk three times roundwest, according to the courseThis sanctify'd tour, or round by thesouth, is call'd Deiseal'' ; as the unhallow'd contraryone by the north, Tuapholl]\But the Irishand Albanian Scots do not derive the first (ascertain friend of mine imagin d) from Di-siil, which{signifies Sunday in Armorican British, as Dydh-sylin Welsh and De-zil in Cornish do the same; butfrom Deas%, the right (understanding hand) andsoil, one of the antient names of the sun, the righthand in this round being ever next the heap.protestants in the Hebrides are almost as muchaddicted to the Deisiol, as the papists. HerebyaTheit may be seen, how hard it is to eradicate inveteratesuperstition. This custom was us'd threethousand years ago, and God knows how long before,by their ancestors the antient Gauls of thesame religion with them, wiio turnd round right"hand-wise, when they ivorshipd their gods, as Atheneus§informs us out of Posidonius, a much elderwriter. Nor is this contradicted, but clearly coiitur,aut eo ipso fallunt, quod quserenda sunt. Dc moribusGerman, cap. 3.* Dextrorsum, f Sinisirorsiim, + Item Deis.§ 'Ouroi Qtovg 7rp»fir*yr5ucrtr, in ra 5's^i* irfi