[Footnote 17: "Veterum Gothorum et Suevorum antiquissimus mos est ut ubi acriores in campis seu montibus instituissent et perfecissent pugnas, illic erectos lapides quasi Egyptiacas pyramides collocare soliti sunt ... Habent itaque hæc saxa in pluribus locis erecta longitudine x. vel xv. XX. aut xxx. et amplius et latitudine iv. vel vi, pedum, mirabili situ sed mirabiliori ordine et mirabilissimo charactere, ob plurimas rationes collocata literato, rectoque et longo ordine videlicet pugilarum certamina, quadrato, turmas bellantium, et spherico familiarum designantia sepulturas ac cuneato equestrium et pedestrium acies ibidem vel prope fortunatum triumphasse," &c. &c.--_De Gentibus Septentrionalibus_, &c. p. 48. Or again:--"Quos humi recondere placuit honorabiles statuas lapidum excelsorum prout hodie cernuntur mira compagine in modum altissimæ et latissimæ januæ, sursum transversumque viribus gigantum erecta."--_Ibid._ 49.] [Footnote 18: 'Danicorum Monumentorum,' libri sex, 22 _et seq._] [Footnote 19: 'Memoirs of Hugh Falconer,' by Dr. Murchison, ii. p. 596.] [Footnote 20: In 1797, Mr. John Frere found flint implements identical with those at Abbeville, and published an account of them, with engravings, in vol. xiii. of the 'Archæologia,' in 1800.] [Footnote 21: In the first years of the last century a flint implement, together with some bones of the _Elephas primigenus_, were found in an excavation in Gray's Inn Lane. An engraving of it was published in 1715, and the implement itself is now in the British Museum.] [Footnote 22: For the last, and one of the best, accounts of the Hydahs, see 'Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,' vol. xiii. No. V. p. 386 _et seq._, by Mr. Brown.] [Footnote 23: 'Germania,' 9.] [Footnote 24: Strabo, iv. p. 198.] [Footnote 25: Bede, 'Hist. Eccles.' i. 30.] [Footnote 26: "Inibi antiquo Romanorum fidelium opere factam," Bede, 'Hist. Eccles.' i. 32.] [Footnote 27: Thorn, 'Dec. Script. Col.' 1760:--"Erat autem non longe ab ipsa civitate ad orientem quasi medio itinere inter ecclesiam Sti. Martini et muros civitatis Phanum sive ydolum situm ubi rex Ethelbertus secundus ritum gentis suæ solebat orare et cum nobilibus suis dæmoniis et non deo sacrificare. Quod Phanum Augustinus ab iniquinamentis et sordibus gentilium purgavit et simulacro quod in eo erat infracto, synagogam mutavit in ecclesiam, et eam in nomine Sti. Pancratii martyris dedicavit."