[Illustration: TAB. III. _View of the Temple of Rowldrich from the South._ _Stukeley del._ A. _the King Stone, as called._ B. _the Archdruids barrow._ CC. _round barrows: or King barrows._] These monuments of the piety of the patriarchs in the eastern parts of the world, were in time desecrated to idolatrous purposes, and at length destroy’d, even by the people of _Israel_, for that reason: and temples square in form and cover’d at top, were introduc’d at the _Mosaic_ dispensation, in direct opposition to that idolatry. But before then, that first method pass’d all over the western world, and to _Britain_, where we see them to this day. By the way, we trace some footsteps of them, but there is always a fable annex’d; as generally at this day, in our Druid temples at home. Thus _Pausanias in corinthiacis_ informs us, that near the river _Chemarus_, is a _septum_ or circle of stones. He says, they have a report there, that this is the place whence _Pluto_ carry’d away _Proserpine_. By such story we must understand, the mysteries were there celebrated. _Pausanias_ writes, that the _Thracians_ us’d to build their temples round, and open at top, in _Bœotic_. He speaks of such at _Haliartus_, by the name of Ναος, equivalent to the _Hebrew Beth_, which name _Jacob_ gave to his temple. He speaks of several altars dedicate to _Pluto_, set in the middle of _areas_ fenc’d in with stones: and they are call’d _hermionenses_. He tells us too, among the _Orchomenians_, is a most ancient temple of the _Graces_, but they worship ’em in the form of stones. From the number three, we may easily guess this was a _Kist vaen_, as our old _Britons_ call it, or _Kebla_, like that in our great temple of _Abury_, and elsewhere. Indeed, the stones of these _Kebla_ in time, instead of a direction in worship, became the object of worship; as _Clemens Alexandrinus_ affirms. That our Druids were so eminently celebrated for their use of groves, shews them to have a more particular relation to _Abraham_, and more immediately from him deriving the usage: by which way, I pointed at in good measure, in the account of _STONEHENGE_. Hence the name of Druid imports, priest of the groves; and their verdant cathedrals, as we may call them, are celebrated by all old writers that speak of this people. We all know the awful and solemn pleasure that strikes one upon entering a grove; a kind of religious dread arises from the gloomy majesty of the place, very favourable to the purpose intended by them. _Servius_ upon _Æneid_ III. _Ante urbem in luco falsi Simoëntis ad undam_,