Change the places, _Abury_ for _Parnassus_, and we have both the natural, as well as chronological history of the place; a vast temple in form of a serpent, made out of stones left on the surface of the earth after the deluge: not only so but the very name too. The name of _Parnassus_ was originally _Larnassus_, says _Stephanus Byzantinus_. The letter L is not a radical in this word, as the learned _Dickenson_ observes in _Delphi phœnic._ therefore the word is _Harnassus_, _Har_ is a headland or promontory of a hill, and _nahas_ a serpent, which is no other than our _Hakpen_ of _Abury_. Whence we conclude, the snaky temple extended its huge length along the bottom of _Parnassus_, and laid its head upon a promontory of it, just as ours at _Abury_, on _Overton-hill_. Whence _Ovid_ not merely poetically, describes it; ————_Tot jugera ventre prementem._ This was the original patriarchal temple dedicated to the true God, where oracles were originally given by _Themis_ says _Apollodorus_ I. 4. Which name I take to be a corruption made in after times from the _Jewish Thummim_, for a divine and true oracle; which _Dickenson_ asserts to have been at this place, page 104. in time turn’d into an idolatrous one. Many built one after another, as the former ones were sack’d and destroy’d. The report of the mountain having been call’d _Larnassus_, is another argument of the high antiquity of this first serpentine temple here built by _Phut_, and throws us up to the patriarchal church, and to the times immediately after the great deluge. _Stephanus_ of _Byzantium_ before quoted, says it: and the interpreter of _Apollonius_, and _Ovid_ makes _Apollo_’s engagement with _Python_ to be immediately after the flood. They pretend the name _Larnassus_ comes from _Larnax_, the ark of _Deucalion_ landing here, agreeable to the _Greek_ method of drawing all antiquity to themselves. The central obeliscal stone in some of the circular works here, which was the _Kebla_, as in the southern temple of _Abury_, was afterward, in idolatrous times, worshipped at _Delphos_ for the statue of _Apollo_, as _Clemens Alexandrinus_ writes, _Strom._ I. ’till art and _Grecian_ delicacy improv’d and produc’d elegant images, like that aforemention’d of the _vatican_, and innumerable more, still remaining. In _Vaillant_’s colony coins vol. I. page 242. is an elegant coin struck at _Cæsarea_, to the emperor _Antoninus Pius_. On the reverse, _Apollo_ standing, leans on a _tripod_, holds in his right hand a snake extended. The learned author is at a loss to explain it, therefore I may be allowed to give my opinion, that it relates to our present subject.