4. When we contemplate the manner and disposition of our temple, in regard to its parts in the circle at _Abury_, and in regard to its position upon the cardinal points, some questions arise in our mind, which we desire a resolution of: Concerning which I believe the hints following will give us some satisfaction. Ever since the world began, in building temples or places of religious assemblies, they have been studious in setting them according to the quarters of the heavens. For they consider’d the world as the general temple or house of God, and that all particular temples should have a proper regard to it. The east naturally claims a prerogative, where the sun and all the planets and stars arise: this therefore they accounted as the face and front of the world, or universal temple. The north then was consider’d as the right-hand and great power of the world, the south as the left-hand or lesser power. For when the sun approaches the northern region, passing over the vernal equinoctial, he brings plenty, and the fulness of his fructiferous influence; when he returns to the south, the face of nature languishes in its winter attire. Therefore they thought the polar region not only highest, but of most eminence and effect. [Illustration: TAB. XXVI. _Stukeley delin._ _Toms sculp._ _A prospect of_ Silbury hill _from the spring head of the Kennet River. 13. May. 1724._] Whence _Orpheus_: “Thou who holdest the scepter of the pole, venerable on many accounts, the throne of the world in the north.” _Psellus_ says, “the _Pandochean_ power of the world reigns in the north.” Hence _Plutarch_ writes, “That _Xenophon_ says of the _Egyptians_, they thought that part where the sun rises was the face of the world; the north was its right-hand, where the _Nile_ rises its left.” And this helps us to explain several _Egyptian_ antiquities. But to apply this to our purpose. We cannot but observe, that the whole of _Abury_ temple, or _Mausoleum_, regarded as a picture, has its upper part to the north, and its face (if we may so speak) toward the east. Thitherward the serpent goes. That way the cove of the northern temple opens; that way the cove of _Bekamton_ avenue; that way the face of _Stonehenge_ temple looks. So that the Druids appear to have the same notions with the other wise men of the oriental ancients.