Thus we pronounce _Rowldrich_ a Druid temple, from a concurrence of all the appearances to be expected in the case; from its round form, situation on high ground, near springs, on an extended heath, from the stones taken from the surface of the ground, from the name, from the measure it is built on, from the wear of the weather, from the barrows of various kinds about it, from ancient reports, from its apparent conformity to those patriarchal temples mentioned in scripture. This is the demonstration to be expected in such antiquities. Nor shall I spend time in examining the notion of its belonging to _Rollo_ the _Dane_, and the like. Mr. _Camden_ had too much judgment to mention it. ’Tis confuted in the annotations to _Britannia_, and in _Selden_’s notes on _Drayton_’s _Polyolbion_, page 224. And let this suffice for what I can say upon this curious and ancient monument: the first kind, and most common of the Druid temples, a plain circle: of which there are innumerable all over the _Britannick_ isles; being the original form of all temples, ’till the Mosaick tabernacle. CHAP. III. Abury, _the most extraordinary work in the world, being a serpentine temple, or of the second kind, described. Now was the critical time of saving the memory of it. Account of the place. Natural history. The gray weathers, call’d_ Sarsens, _a_ phœnician _word, meaning a rock. Whence the name of the city of_ Tyre. _Their weight and texture. The wear of the weather, more apparent here, than at_ Stonehenge, _an argument of its being a much older work._