I cannot help thinking, after what I have said in _Stonehenge_, concerning the magnetick needle, that this arrow of _Apollo_’s which _Abaris_ made use of in his journey from _Shetland_ to _Greece_, was an instrument of this sort, which the _Hyperborean_ sage gave to _Pythagoras_. And the Druids possessing such a secret as this, would reciprocally create, and favour that notion of their practising magick. Calling it _Apollo_’s arrow seems to throw the possession of it up to _Phut_ the most famous navigator, we before treated of: nay it seems that we may trace it still higher, even to _Noah_ himself. _Sanchoniathon_ the _Phœnician_ writer tells us, among other remarkable things concerning _Ouranus_, who is certainly _Noah_, “that he devised _Bætulia_, or contriv’d stones that mov’d as having life.” Besides the interpretation, we may very naturally affix to this account, of anointed stones or main ambres: we may well judge that the knowledge of the magnet is here understood; which at first they placed in a little boat, in a vessel of water, and then it would move itself, ’till directed to the quarters of the heavens. _Atheneus Deipnosoph._ affirms, that _Hercules_ borrow’d his golden cup wherewith he sail’d over the ocean, of _Nereus_. _Nereus_ is _Japhet_ eldest son of _Noah_, and the golden cup was a compass box in all probability. Among the ancient constellations pictur’d on the celestial globe, is an arrow; said by _Eratosthenes_ the most ancient writer we have on the _Catasterisms_, (as called,) to be the arrow of _Apollo_, which was laid up in the winged temple among the _Hyperboreans_. _Diodorus Siculus_ from _Hecateus_ and other older writers, shews, the _Hyperborean_ island was in the ocean, and beyond _Gaul_, to the north, under the bear; where the people liv’d a most simple and happy life. _Orpheus_ places them near the _Cronian_ sea; a word purely _Irish_, as Mr. _Toland_ shews, _Croin_ signifying frozen. He shews further and that very largely, that the _Hebrid_ islands, _Skie_, _Lewis_, _Harries_, _Shetland_, are the true _Hyperborean_ islands of the ancients. Among them therefore was the winged temple; whether made of mounds of earth, like those two on the _Humber_, and on _Navestock-common_; or made of stones like other Druid temples. There are other Druid temples in those islands, made of stones, I shall give a print of one, in my next volume. Further there is a famous one in _Cornwall_ call’d vulgarly the _Hurlers_, which I take to have been one of our alate temples, made of stones set upright. The learned _Bayer_ in his fine designs of the celestial constellations, represents the arrow of _Apollo_ beforemention’d, as a magnetick needle; and he took his designs chiefly from a very ancient book of drawings. I observe likewise that the isle of _Skie_, in the language of the natives, is call’d _Scianach_, which signifies winged. And in that probably, was the winged temple we speak of; which gave name to the isle.