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SERPENT-TEMPLES.

Although scarcely two miles of the templeare now recoverable, yet tradition states it onceextended to Moor Dovey, a distance of sevenmiles from Shap ! In this respect it almost rivalsthe celebrated Carnac, which can only be tracedfor eight miles ; but in the number and magni-tude of its columns, it must have fallen veryshort of the grandeur of that magnificent dracon-tium. Indeed nothing in Britain can competewith this pride of Britany. All our parallelithacontain but two rows of stones, whereas thetemple of Carnac has eleven !

About a mile to the N. E. of Shap is a circlecomposed of large stones, in tolerable preserva-tion ; but whether it was connected with theparallelithon or not, I am unable to determine.The probability of the connection is howevergreat; but I fear the temple is in too dilapidateda state to solve this question.

Dr. Stukeley, who also saw, but did not sur-vey the temple of Shap, pronounced it at onceto be a dracontium. The indications must, atthat time, (one hundred years since,) have beenmuch stronger than they are now. A travellerin these days would hardly notice the few stoneswhich lie by the side of the Kendal road. Dr.Stukeley, in a letter to an eminent antiquary of