|only nine leagues across to Calais, and with a fair wind the |voyage is often made in one tide. | |The harbour has been considerably improved of late years, but |still will only admit vessels of moderate burthen. The piers which |form the haven are very costly works, defended by some very strong |batteries, which are now continued in a chain along the coast, |with numerous martello towers, &c. The market days are on |Wednesday and Saturday. | 117|Downhead, Somerset, 166. A hamlet containing 43 houses, and 225 |inhabitants. | 59|Down Hurstbourn, Hants, 100. | 106|Down, Little, Dorset, 107. | 86|Down, Little, Wilts, 162. | 122|Down, North, Dorset, 110. | 127|Down, North, Somerset, 142. | 45|Down Wood, Sussex, 20. | 224|Dozmare Pool, Cornwall, 154. | |Drayton, Hants, 214, 223. | 90|Drove End, Wilts, 105. | 64|Droxford, Hants, 97. A parish containing 210 houses, and 1199 |inhabitants. It is pleasantly situated in a fine open country, |having an extensive view over Portsdown. The church is a good |building, of Saxon architecture. | 80|Druidical Temple, Wilts, 183, 198. The ruins of this temple |evidently manifest its having once been the most extensive in the |kingdom of which at present we have any remains, though from its |situation being low, and it having been encroached upon by a |village being formed within its area, consequently obscuring it by |the erection of houses, planting trees, hedges, &c. it has not |become so much an object of attention as Stonehenge, and other |relicks of the kind situated on more commanding and less |cultivated districts. This is nevertheless more calculated to |excite astonishment, if strictly investigated, than any one of the |others, though, from the circumstances above stated, it is |certainly less striking to the superficial observer. As a monument |of the peculiar rights and customs of a people with whose history, |manners, and establishments we are totally unacquainted, this |stupendous ruin certainly claims particular attention, there being |still remaining numerous objects to awaken curiosity, and excite |research. | |In its perfect state, this immense temple must have presented an |appearance at once solemn and impressive: at present, part of its |site is occupied by the village of Avebury, with the high road |passing through it, bounded by lofty hills, and the greater part |encircled by a deep and wide ditch, and a lofty vallum, within |which are several very large stones, some standing erect, and |others lying on the ground; at some distance, south and west of |the village, are other stones in similar situations. According to |Stukely, this temple originally consisted of 650 stones,