The work of _Phut_’s building an enormous serpentine temple, was call’d killing or overcoming the huge serpent _Python_, properly son of the earth. ————_Et te quoque maxime_ Python _Tum genuit: populisque novis incognita serpens Terror eras. Tantum spatii de monte tenebas._ Ovid. Met. [Illustration: TAB. XXXV. _A Roman Urn found at Newington_ _Chyndonax a Druids tomb found in France._ _Celtic Urns found at Sunbury._ _Stukeley f._] Publick sacrifices, games, hymns, a sabbatical observance being there celebrated; we have just reason to think all the like were observ’d by our Druids at _Abury_, especially considering they were of _Phœnician_ original. To conclude this chapter, this labour of _Phut_’s is told in many places. Some say it was in _Mysia_, in _Phrygia_ others, again in _Cilicia_, in _Pithecusa_, in _Bœotia_; _Strabo_ xiii. writes, that it was in _Syria_; and there seems to have been a serpentine temple on the river _Orontes_ of _Antioch_, for it was call’d originally _Typhon_ and Οφιτης, as _Strabo_ writes, xvi. and _Eustathius_ in _Iliad_, p. 262. _Basil._ and in _Dionysium_. The story is of _Typhon_ a huge serpent slain there by a thunderbolt from _Jupiter_, near a sacred cave called _Nymphæum_. The meaning of all this, seems to be, that _Phut_ in person, or his people built them in all these places. _Ææas_ a son of _Phut_’s, built the serpentine temple at _Colchis_. _Perseus_ was a son of _Demaroon_, born in _Egypt_, _Euseb. p. e._ II. 1. he was coæval with _Phut_, and bore in his shield the sacred hierogram, and he probably built of these _Dracontia_. From this the poets made their fable of _Medusa_’s head, and that it turn’d men into snakes. _Hesiod_ in the description of _Hercules_’s shield, thus paints him in _English_. “As he went, his adamantine shield sounded, and tinkled with a loud noise. In a circle two dragons were suspended, lifting up their heads.” _Johannes Malala_ makes _Perseus_ institutor of the _Magi_, who were the patriarchal priests of the east. He calls the river of _Antioch_ abovementioned _Dracon_. CHAP. XIII.