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and victims were ty'd.
OF THE DRUIDS, 139
Likewise in the iland of
Papa-Westra, another of the Orkneys, there stand,
near a lake (now call'd St. Tredwell's loch*) two
such obelises, in one of which there is the like
hole: and behind them lying on the ground a
third stone, being hollow like a trough.
XII. These few I only give for examples out of
great numbers, as I likewise take the liberty to acquaint
you (my lord) that at a place call'd Biscauwoon,
near Saint Burien's in Cornwall, there is a
circular temple consisting of 19 stones, the distance
between each 12 foot; and a twentieth in
the center, much higher than the rest. But I am
not yet inform'd, whether this
middle stone has
any peculiar figure, or whether inscrib'd with any
characters; for such characters are found in Scotland,
and some have been observ'd in Wales ;
but
(except the Roman and Christian inscriptions)
unintelligible to such as have hitherto seen them.
Yet they ought to have been fairly represented
for the use of such as might have been able perhaps
to explain them. They would at least exercise
our antiquaries. The circle of Rollrichstones
in Oxfordshire, and the Hurlers in Cornwall,
are two of those Druid templeSi
There is
one at Aubury in Wiltshire, and some left in other
places in England. In Gregory of Tours time
there was remaining, and for ought I know may
still be so, one of those temples on the top of Be-
* Brand, pag. 58.
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