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possibly want any thing,OF THE DRUIDS. 201.that brought 'em eitherpleasure or power. The kings bore all the en^y,and the Druids possest all the sweets of authority.VII. But leaving both for a while, I submit toyour lordship's consideration, upon such evidencesand proofs as I am going to produce; whetherthe Hyperborean iland, so much celebrated by antiquity,be not some one or more of the remotestHands:and particularly the great iland of Lewij$and Harries, w ith its appendages, and the adjacentiland of Sky; which inevery circumstanceagree to the description that Diodorus SiculuiSgives of the iland of the Hyperboreans. Let'smention some of those circmiistances. He says^that the harp was there in great repute, as indeedit is still; every gentleman having one in hhhouse, besides a multitude of harpers by profession,intertain'd gratis wherever they come.Hetells us, that above all other Godsf they worshiptApollo; w^hich, in my first letter, I evidently showthey did under the name of Belenus:{:. He saysfurther, that besides a magnificent sacred grove,Apollo's remarkable temple § there was round,whereof I have given a particular description and•* Tajv S'£ K«TOJXcwT«/> avrnr rov( wXufouc uim Kjflapif«?. Lib, 2. pag; 150.t Toy AttoXXo; fxaT^i^a twv aXXaiy Qtuv Trap' avroig rifA.as-9*!,,Ibid.X In the Celtic language Beal and i3ealan.$ *T7rap;;^£ty S^e Karet rnv VSfov Tifxtvoq te ATToXXuvog fA.iyaXO'in^'ntq, x«i v«#y ahoyo-C C