3. Barrows with ditches round them. These are commonly such as I esteem royal, of the newest fashion among the old _Britons_; generally of an elegantly turn’d bell-form. These two last sort I call king-barrows. 4. Large oblong barrows, some with trenches round them, others without. These I call, for method sake, archdruids’ barrows. Several of ’em near _Abury_ and _Stonehenge_. And sometimes we find ’em in other places about the kingdom. A druid celt was found in that north of _Stonehenge_, which induc’d me to give them the title. I shall speak a little concerning them in the method mention’d, as they are observable about _Abury_, but we ought to begin with _Silbury_, which, says our right reverend and learned author, is the largest barrow in the county, and perhaps in all _England_. _Silbury_ indeed is a most astonishing collection of earth, artificially rais’d, worthy of _Abury_, worthy of the king who was the royal founder of _Abury_, as we may very plausibly affirm. By considering the picture of _Abury_ temple, we may discern, that as this immense body of earth was rais’d for the sake of the interment of this great prince, whoever he was: so the temple of _Abury_ was made for the sake of this _tumulus_; and then I have no scruple to affirm, ’tis the most magnificent _mausoleum_ in the world, without excepting the _Egyptian_ pyramids. _Silbury_ stands exactly south of _Abury_, and exactly between the two extremities of the two avenues, the head and tail of the snake. The work of _Abury_, which is the circle, and the two avenues which represent the snake transmitted thro’ it, are the great _hierogrammaton_, or sacred prophylactic character of the divine mind, which is to protect the _depositum_ of the prince here interr’d. The _Egyptians_, for the very same reason, frequently pictur’d the same hieroglyphic upon the breast of their mummies, as particularly on that in my lord _Sandwich_’s collection; and very frequently on the top and summit of _Egyptian_ obeliscs, this picture of the serpent and circle is seen; and upon an infinity of their monuments. In the very same manner this huge snake and circle, made of stones, hangs, as it were, brooding over _Silbury-hill_, in order to bring again to a new life the person there buried. For our Druids taught the expectation of a future life, both soul and body, with greatest care, and made it no less than a certainty. ————————_vobis auctoribus umbræ Non tacitas Erebi sedes, Ditisque profundi Pallida regna petunt; regit idem spiritus artus Orbe alio_———— Sings _Lucan. Phars._ I. Here might be said, with the same poet, _Et regis cineres extructo monte quiescunt._ Lucan.