I observ’d a line, or little bank and ditch, cast up above our figure, which I judg’d to be done with an intent to keep off the inundation of the ocean at the times of sacrifice, which seems to have been perform’d within that inclos’d area, where I have set the figure of the compass in the engraven view. Likewise just without that line, eastward, I remarked three little square plots, which perhaps were habitations of the Druids who were keepers of the temple. ’Tis not from the purpose to take notice of one of the greatest fix’d stars of the heavens, at the bottom of the constellation call’d the _ship_, having the name of _Canopus_, which is no other than our word _Cneph_. This star had this name given it by the _Egyptians_, as appearing to them just above the edge of the southern horizon. And in their spheres, we may very well presume, they painted it as a winged circle, and because it always appear’d as hovering over the horizon or great ocean. ————_O numen aquarum Proxima cui cœlo cessit, Neptune, potestas._ Ov. Met. IV. So that originally the ancients understood the spirit or soul of the universe, or more properly the divine spirit, by this figure which they call’d KNEPH, which the _European_ nations call’d _Neptune_, sovereign of the waters. So often by the poets call’d Ενοσιχθων, Ενοσιγαιων, the _shaker of the earth_; for the waters in _Moses_ means the _Hyle_, or moist matter of chaos whence the universe was made. Two of the quarterly solemnities or general sacrifices of the Druids were on the two equinoxes, when are the highest tides. A curious observer being upon the spot, for some years together, at these times, might possibly make some notable discovery concerning the difference of the surface of the sea, since the current of 5 or 6000 years: for I persuade myself this temple was made by the very first inhabitants of the isle, and not long after the flood, on account of the interment here of some great hero, that advanc’d so far in peopling the country. And if our reasonings and testimonies hitherto be any whit agreeable to truth, we may point out the species of many of these most ancient temples built at the place of sepulture of heroes, spoken of in writings of those times. For instance, we infer a serpentine temple was made by the _tumulus_ of _Orpheus_, from the fable of a serpent offering to devour his head, which serpent was turn’d into stone. _Hic ferus expositum peregrinis anguis arenis Os petit, & sparsos stillanti rore capillos Lambit, & hymniferos inhiat divellere vultus. Tandem Phœbus adest, morsusque inferre parentem Congelat, & patulos, ut erant, indurat hiatus._