The square of _Solomon_’s temple was 700 cubits; the diameter of _Abury_ is 800. But _Abury_, in square content, is to _Solomon_’s temple as 50 to 49. If we take into the account the _vallum_ of _Abury_, we find this would hold incomparably more people than the other, as spectators or assistants. An hundred oxen in sacrifice was an hecatomb. Twenty two thousand were offered by _Solomon_ at the dedication, beside other animals. Three times in the year the whole nation of _Israel_ assembled there, to pay their devotions and sacrifices, the aboriginal covenant made between God and man, in order to obtain favour and pardon. For ought we know, there might be as many here, and on the same account. I believe their most common times of these extraordinary religious meetings were on the four quarters of the year, the equinoxes and solstices. We may well wonder how these people could bring together so many of these great stones, and set them up so exactly. The stones they had not far to fetch, only from the other side of the _Hakpen_, from the gray weathers. Their vicinity, their lying on the surface of the ground, the soil here being solid chalk, was the great inducement for the Druids, in these most early ages, to build this temple. The manner of their mechanics, which undoubtedly was very simple, must be equally surprizing. I apprehend, they brought the stones upon strong carriages, and drew them by men. For even in _Cæsar_’s time, there was an infinite multitude of people. Their manner of raising the stones seems to have been with tall trees, us’d for leavers, and no doubt very artfully apply’d. The method of fixing these enormous blocks of stone was, to dig a hole in the solid chalk, and ram the foundation of it in, with lesser stones, flints, and coggles, very artfully. They are not let in above two feet and a half deep. And the country being all a solid bed of chalk, was another reason why here, as at _Stonehenge_, they chose it for this extraordinary building. The conducting and rightly managing an immense number of hands, the providing for their maintenance, was a matter of wisdom and great authority. The marvellous effect produced, might well establish the glory of the Druids of _Britain_, which echoed across the ocean, and very much favour’d the opinion mankind had conceiv’d of their practising magick. For magick is nothing else but the science that teaches us to perform wonderful and surprizing things, in the later acceptation of the word. And in very many ages after the Druid times, mankind had the same notion, and the vulgar have to this day, concerning these works. And most probably from them sprung the character, which _Pliny_ gives of our _british_ Druids practising magic, and being so great proficients therein, as to equal the _persian_ and _chaldean magi_, “so that one would even think,” says he, “the Druids had taught it them.”