a hundred yards, approaches and contrails the water to the fize
■ of a little river, over which is a true Alpine bridge; and behind
that the water inftantly refumes the former breadth.
Regaining the road, have a Arrange and horrible view downwards,
into a°deep and mifty vale, at this time appearing bottomlefs, and
winding far amidft the mountains, darkened b y their height, and
the th ick clouds that hung on their fummits.
In the courfe of the defcent, vifit, under the guidance of Doc-
I tor Brownrigg (the firft difcoverer) a fine piece o f antiquity o f
that kind which is attributed to the Druids. An arrangement o f
great Hones tending to an oval figure, is to be feen near the road
fide, about a mile and a half from Kefwick, on the fummit o f a
pretty broad and high hill, in an arable field called Caftle. The
area is thirty-four yards from north to fouth, and near thirty
from eail to weft; but many of the Hones are fallen down, fome
: inward, others outward: according to the plan, they are at pre-
fent forty in number. A t the north end, are two much larger
than the reH, Handing five feet and a half above the fo il: between
thefe may be fuppofed to have been the principal entrance
oppofite to it, on the S. fide, are others o f nearly the fame heights
and on the eafi is one near feven feet high. But what difiin-
f guilhes this from all other Druidical remains o f this nature, is a
f reftangular recefs on the eafi fide of the area, formed o f great
: Hones, like thofe of the oval. Thefe ftrudtures are confidered in
general to have been temples, or places o f worihip: the recefs
here mentioned feems to have been allotted for the Druids, the
- priefis of the place, a fort o f Holy o f Holies, where they met fe-
parated from the vulgar, to perform their rites, their divinations,
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