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themfelves in Anglefey as their
metropolis, the author proves by
the confent of ancients and mo.
derns, by the joint authority of
Ctefar and Tacitus, and by a great
variety of ancient remains and mo.
numents, which their names, and
other circurnltances, thew to be
relics of Druidical rites and cuf-
toms.

The Druids are known to have
had a chief, or head, who was at-
tended by the inferior orders, by
whole dwellings his own was‘ fur.
rounded; and in Anglefey there is
now a place called 7're’r Dgw,
Druids Town; the other orders,
as appears from Strabo, and Am.
Inianus Marcellinus, were called
Drudau, Ojuyr, and Beirdd; and
round the place called Tn‘:- Dry-w,
Druids Town, there are now places
called Baddruaau, Bodoujr, and
Trfr Beirdd, i.e. the precin€t or
allotment of the Druakm, the Of-
frtsyr, and the Beirad.

The Druids had a fupreme eon-
lillorial court, and in Anglefey
there is now a circular bank of
earth, called Brain-Gwyn, the Su.
preme Court or Confillory. They
affected walks and folitude; and
there is a place, called ilbflrion,
the place of contemplation; they
cultivated groves of oak, and there
is a place called TrIw-ir-ugw/d, the
townfhip of young trees, or nurfery
of oaks.

In the middle of Druids Town
there are the ruins of the principal
Druid’s houfe, a railed fquare, fifty
paces over, doubly intrenched and
moated round; in the middle of
it is the foundation of a round
tower, or flair-cafe; and it appears
to have been furroundedby a grove
of oaks, for the mud that now
fills the ditches is little more than
one mafs of rotten oalt leaves.

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Near the refidence of the prins
eipal Druid it is natural to look
for his great temple and fupreme
tribunal, and here remains of both
are to be found; at one end of
the town, which contains the re-
ma ns of the Druid’: hotiie, there
appears a large circus, or theatre,
railed to a great height with earth
and llrnes, with an opening di.
rectly to the writ: and at about a.
furlong diflant are the n mains of
a ring cr circus of very largG
fione pillars; three are [landing
entire, and there is the fiump of a
fourth fiill in an erect petition;
the whole number feetm to have
be n erght; they weze placed in
a circular form, and included, an
area of about fourteen yards dia-
meter. '1 he theatre of earth and
llones is called Bryn-Gwyn, the
fupremc trrbunal; and the pillar!
appear to be the remains of 'a
temple, by a farnedde, or place of
facrifice, [till remaining in the
middle of it, and othersfiones that
were known to be ufeo in their re-
ligious rites.

In the neighbourhood of this
town there are many other Drui-
dical remains, particularly a Crun-
lecb ofa very large fize. As (om:
of the llones of thefe Cram/ed»,
that are railed upon other llones,
in the manner of Stone-henge,
upon Salilbury-plain, are of an
enormous magnitude, weighing
more than thirty ton, the manner
in which they were removed and
raifed has always puzzled the
learned, nor has the problem
been hitherto fatisfafiorily folved.
The folution however is attempted
by Mr. Rowlands in the following
manner.

". The powers of the lever and

inclined plane, being fotne 0f the
firfi