having been omitted in the young race during their peregrination in the wilderness: “And the LORD said unto _Joshua_, this day have I _rolled_ away the reproach of _Egypt_ from off you; wherefore the name of the place is called _Gilgal_ unto this day.” [Illustration: TAB. VI. _View of the Kistvaen at Rowldrich from the East._ _Stukeley del._ A. _the Druid temple at a distance._] Commentators not apprehending this, run into many odd solutions, as not seeing a reason between _name_ and _thing_. Some therefore suppose it so call’d, because from hence _Joshua_ conquer’d all his enemies _round about_, and the like. But the truth is, _Joshua_ set the stones in a circular form, like the ancient temples; but placed no altar there, because they had no need to use it as a temple, where the tabernacle was present, therefore call’d it simply the _wheel_. So I doubt not but the altar which _Moses_ built under mount _Sinai_, with twelve pillars, was a circular work, as our Druid temples, _Exod._ xxiv. 4. The like we ought to think of the altar which _Moses_ built, and called _Jehovah Nissi_, which the heathen perverted into _Jupiter Nyseus_, or _Dionysus_, _Exod._ xvii. 15. The like must be affirm’d of all the patriarchal altars of _Abraham_, _Isaac_, and _Jacob_. These works of ours prove it, which are but little later in time, and made in imitation of theirs; and without a pun, or false logic, these matters may be said to prove each other in a circle; where ’tis absurd to demand any positive proof thro’ extreme distance of times and places. I apprehend nothing further ought to be expected from us than to lay together circumstantial evidence, a concurrence of numerous and strong verisimilitudes; as is now the case with us concerning _Rowldrich_. 5. We very justly infer this is a temple of the Druids, from the measure it is built upon. In a letter from Mr. _Roger Gale_ to me, dated from _Worcester, Aug. 19, 1719_, having been to visit this antiquity at my request, he tells me, the diameter of the circle is 35 yards. So the bishop of _London_ writes, the distance at _Stonehenge_ from the entrance of the area to the temple itself is 35 yards; so the diameter of _Stonehenge_ is 35 yards. We suppose this is not measur’d with a mathematical exactness; but when we look into the comparative scale of _English_ feet and cubits, we discern 60 cubits of the Druids is the measure sought for. The diameter of the outer circle of _Stonehenge_, and this circle at _Rowldrich_, are exactly equal. I have repeated the table of the Druid cubits collated with our _English_ feet, which will be of service to us throughout this work, plate II.