One of the most extraordinary monuments of ancient England, is that called Stonehenge. This is an Anglo-Saxon term, meaning the hanging stones. This monument is situated on a small hill in the midst of a barren plain. All around it funeral mounds are grouped. These mounds are called “barrows,” and within three miles of Stonehenge there are over three hundred and fifty of these that have been recently discovered. The stones that constituted this Druid temple are many of them lying prostrate on the ground, a few only remaining upright with the gigantic stone slabs across their tops. Yet enough remains to indicate the general design of the structure as it originally stood. It consisted of an outer circle, about three hundred feet in diameter, of thirty upright stones sustaining as many others laid horizontally on their tops. Within this was another circle of upright ones, smaller than those in the outer circle, and without any stones on their tops. These stones are so large that it cannot be imagined how they were raised to their lofty position. It is very evident that Stonehenge was a place of worship, and from the number of grave-mounds, each containing the remains of a number of bodies, it is evident that it was a place of great sanctity. It has been supposed that serpent-worship found a place here. [Illustration: ANCIENT DRUIDIC WORSHIP AT STONEHENGE, ENGLAND.] HUMAN SACRIFICES. Cæsar gives a very careful account of the Druids. In the century just preceding the coming of Christ, Cæsar conquered the Britons. His account of their condition is the more reliable because this conquest put him in possession of the means of knowing the people who were in the future to form a part of his empire. His testimony can best be given in a translation of his own words. He says: