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The most notable antiquity of Great Britain / Walter Charleton
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Ai Stones called Corse stones, weighing twelve Tun, Carrying" in Height twenty four Foot, in Breadth seven Foot, in Compass sixteen.

" B, Stones named Cronets, of fix, or seven Tun Weight.

C, Two of the Stones of the outward Circle.

D, One of the Stones of the inner Circle.

F, Two Stones of the greater Hexagon.

F, One of the Stones of the inner Hexagon.

G, One of the Stones of the inner Circle, as it lies along onthe Ground.

H, The Architraves (or Stones) which Mr. Camden calls over-thwart Pieces, lying upon the erected Stones twenty eight Foot high.

/, The two Stones of the Entrance from the North-East , stand-ing on the inside of the Trench.

K, The Stone omitted by Dr. Charleton.

But to proceed, he tells us,

2. " The formes faith, all those three Courses are circular: The latter faith, of his four,^ two only are circular, the other two

hexagonal.

This, I conceive, makes them both accord, more rather than dis-agree, in their Descriptions; for, first, Mr. Camden (borrowing theExpression from Poly dor e Virgil ) delivers, that the general Aspectof our Antiquity bears the Form of a Crown; and Mr. Jones faith,the whole Work in general is of a circular Figure $ and who knows

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