Here I am sufficiently satisfied this avenue terminated, at the like distance from _Abury_-town, as _Overton-hill_ was, in the former avenue; 100 stones on a side, 4000 cubits in length; ten _stadia_ or the eastern mile. Several stones are left dispersedly on banks and meres of the lands. One great stone belonging to this end of the avenue, lies buried almost under ground, in the plow’d land between the barrow west of _Longstone_ long barrow, and the last hedge in the town of _Bekamton_. _Richard Fowler_ shew’d me the ground here, whence he took several stones and demolish’d them. I am equally satisfied there was no temple or circle of stones at this end of it. 1. Because it would be absurd in drawing. The head of the snake was aptly represented by that double circle on _Overton-hill_: but this place, the tail of the snake, admitted no such thing, and I doubt not but it grew narrower and narrower as before we observed, of the neck of the snake. 2. Here is not the least report of such a thing among the country people. It would most assuredly have been well known, because every stone was demolish’d within memory, when I was there. I cannot doubt but many have suffered since; and I have had very disagreeable accounts thereof sent to me. I apprehend this end of the avenue drew narrower in imitation of the tail of a snake, and that one stone stood in the middle of the end, by way of close. This I infer from the manner of the end of that avenue of the Druid temple at _Classerness_; which I take to be the tail of a snake. Of which hereafter. For a more mathematical determination of this end of the avenue, see Chap X. at the end. The avenue took another circular sweep of a contrary manner, as it descended from _Longstone_ cove, bending southward. ————_pars cætera campum Ponè legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga_. as _Virgil_ writes of this creature, _Æneid_ II. And it went over variety of elevations and depressures as the other of _Kennet_ avenue; but that terminated on a hill, as this in a valley. With great judgment, they thus laid out the ground, to make the whole more picture-like. [Illustration: TAB. XIX. _Stukeley delin._ _Toms Sculp._ _Continuation of Kennet avenue 24. May 1724._] _Bekamton_-village lies very low, at the bottom of a valley subject to inundations, and the ground is springy: they can’t make cellars there: whereas _Abury_ is very dry, and their wells deep.