Conjectures on the Musterious Monument of Ancient Art, Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain; Commencing Its History by Jeffery of Monmouth and Continued to a Period of 682 Years. to Which Is Added a History of the Druids (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1826 Excerpt: ... after, tells the naked truth of the matter; and that it was not, because they would not, but because they could not, say any thing of it. This Stonage did astonish them; this did amaze them; that they durst not labour, lest they should lose their labour, and themselves also. If the grand. seniors which lived so near it, above a thousand years since, could not, how should we silly freshmen, unlock this closet f I. My first Particular is, that Stonage was an old British Monument. The old Britons were the first of six nations, . which had the possession of this land successively, viz. old-Britons, Belgae, Romans, Saxons, Danes, andNormans. The old Britons came originally from the tower of BaboK thus: Shortly after the deluge, . the Lord having blessed Noah, and his posterity, saying, " Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth." Notwithstanding they had been fruitful, and had in a short time multiplied incredibly, yet they obstinately refused to replenish the earth;-but said, "Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower in it, whose top may reach unto Heaven, lest we be scattered over theface of the whole earth." So they intended to dwell in their city together, and to secure themselves from any future flood in the tower; but the Lord confounded their one, viz. Hebrew, into fifty-two languages; so that they, not understanding each other, balling about carrying on the work, were necessitated to give it over-unfinished; and then each principal man among them, having sought out, and brought together, such as could well understand his language, conducted them into the several parts of the earth; where many of them are called after their conductors-names to this day; as the Medes, from Madai; the Muscovites, from Meech, or Mosock; the Canonites, from Canaan-; and ...