Information relative to the prevalence of this superstition in England will be found in Davies' _Myths of the Druids_, Camden's _Britannia_, and Borlase's _Cornwall_. Perhaps the most remarkable of all British relics of this worship are to be found on the hills overlooking the village of Abury, in the county of Wiltshire. There, twenty-six miles from the celebrated ruins of Stonehenge, are to be found the remains of a great Serpentine Temple--one of the most imposing, as it certainly is one the most interesting, monuments of the British Islands. It was first accurately described by Dr. Stukeley in 1793 in his celebrated work entitled _Abury, a Temple of the British Druids_. It was afterwards carefully examined by Sir R. C. Hoare and an account published in his elaborate work _Ancient Wiltshire_. Dr. Stukeley was the first to detect the design of the structure and his conclusions have been sustained by the observations of every antiquary who has succeeded him. The temple of Abury consisted originally of a grand circumvallation of earth 1,400 feet in diameter, enclosing an area of upwards of twenty-two acres. It has an inner ditch and the height of the embankment, measuring from the bottom of the ditch, is seventeen feet. It is quite regular, though not an exact circle in form, and has four entrances at equal distances apart, though nearly at right angles to each other. Within this grand circle were originally two double or concentric circles composed of massive upright stones: a row of large stones, one hundred in number, was placed upon the inner brow of the ditch. Extending upon either hand from this grand central structure were parallel lines of huge upright stones, constituting, upon each side, avenues upwards of a mile in length. These formed the body of the serpent. Each avenue consisted of two hundred stones. The head of the serpent was represented by an oval structure consisting of two concentric lines of upright stones; the outer line containing forty, the inner eighteen stones. This head rests upon an eminence known as Overton, or Hakpen Hill, from which is commanded a view of the entire structure, winding back for more than two miles to the point of the tail, towards Bekhampton. _Hakpen_ in the old British dialects signified _Hak_, serpent, and _pen_, head, _i.e._, Head of the Serpent. "To our name of _Hakpen_," says Stukeley, "alludes _ochim_, called 'doleful creatures' in our translation." Isa. (13 v. 21), speaking of the desolation of Babylon, says: "Wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of _ochim_, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there." St. Jerome translates it "serpents." The Arabians call a serpent _Haie_, and wood-serpents _Hageshin_; and thence our _Hakpen_; _Pen_ is "head" in British.