The centers of these two double circles are 300 cubits asunder. Their circumferences or outward circles are 50 cubits asunder, in the nearest part. By which means they least embarrass each other, and leave the freest space about ’em, within the great circular portico (as we may call it) inclosing the whole; which we described in the former chapter. There is no other difference between these two temples (properly) which I could discover, save that one, the southermost, has a central obelisc, which was the kibla, whereto they turn’d their faces, in the religious offices there performed: the other has that immense work in the center, which the old _Britons_ call a cove: consisting of three stones plac’d with an obtuse angle toward each other, and as it were, upon an ark of a circle, like the great half-round at the east end of some old cathedrals: or like the upper end of the cell at _Stonehenge_; being of the same use and intent, the _adytum_ of this temple. This I have often times admir’d and been astonish’d at its extravagant magnitude and majesty. It stands in the yard belonging to the inn. King _Charles_ II. in his progress this way, rode into the yard, on purpose to view it. This cove of the northern temple was undoubtedly the _kibla_ thereof. It opens pretty exactly north-east, as at _Stonehenge_. It measures 34 foot, from the edge of the outer jambs; 20 cubits: and half as much in depth. _Varro_ V. _divinorum_, writes, altars were of old call’d _ansæ_. So _Macrobius saturn._ II. 11. It seems that they mean this figure before us. And I suppose ’tis what _Schedius_ means; _de dis germ._ c. 25. speaking of altars among the old _germans_ set in a triangle, he says, the Druids understood a mystery thereby. Perhaps they intended it for a nich-like hemispherical figure, in some sort to represent the heavens. _Sex. Pompeius_ writes, the ancients called the heavens, _cove_. The altar properly lay upon the ground before this superb nich. That, no doubt, was carry’d off long ago, as not being fix’d in the earth, and one of the wings is gone too, the northern. It fell down 1713, as marked in the ground-plot. _Fit sonus ingenti concussa est pondere tellus._ Virg.