There is another, as I take it, at _Classerness_, a village in the island of _Lewis_, between _Scotland_ and _Ireland_. I took a drawing of it from Mr. _Lwydd_’s travels; but he was a very bad designer, and having no knowledge of the purport, makes the representation still worse. The circle to which it belongs is 20 cubits in diameter. There is a central obelisc. A part of the snake remains going from it, which he calls an avenue. He did not discern the curve of it, no more than that of _Kennet_ avenue, which he likewise has drawn in the same collection, as a straight line. It seems to me that the circle was double, or two concentric. I shall print it in the succeeding volume. [Illustration: TAB. XXXII. _Stukely delin._ _Harris sculp_ _View of the Kist-Vaen in Clatford bottom._] No doubt but there are more in the _britannic_ isles. I propose in this chapter to deliver my notions concerning them in the more eastern parts of the world, of which are many traces in ancient writing; avoiding prolixity as much as possible. The practice of building these serpentine temples was us’d by the patriarchs, perhaps near the beginning of the world. I have some proof of their being ancienter than the flood; but shall not at present insist on it. The first person I shall take notice of on this account is _Phut_, a brother of _Canaan_, son of _Cham_. _Phut_ was a person of much greater eminence in antiquity, than vulgarly thought. But would we know anything of the particular memoirs of this man, or of any other his relations and coevals, we have nothing left us for it but heathen story. Tho’ the _Phœnicians_, and our Druids, as well as the _Egyptians_ too, had the earliest use of alphabet writing, yet none of these nations have transmitted to us any memoirs of themselves. And for what little knowledge we have of them, besides their monuments, we are altogether indebted to the _Greeks_, that receiv’d these arts from them. They happily improv’d art and science, sculpture and writing, so as to hand down to us most of the ancient history we know, beside the bible. Still this misfortune attended them, that they improv’d the symbolical method of writing, which they learn’d from the _Phœnicians_ and _Egyptians_, to that monstrous pitch, as to produce what we call by the general name of _mythology_. It was but very late that they came to write true history: so that the whole of the ancient history of the nations they write of, is invelop’d in this perplexing mythology. Yet we should be highly to blame, if we absolutely neglected it. ’Tis all we can have of prophane antiquity. ’Tis more commendable for us to study to extricate it from its symbolic mystery, and find out the open truth. Those that have succeeded best therein, find much agreement between it and the scripture history, as far as they are concurrent.