The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 by Various
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parts, while the former does not. The ancient British documents give us
the founder of the latter, namely, _Emrys_, or _Ambrosius_, while we are left in ignorance as to who raised the pile of _Cyfrangon_. Nor was Stonehenge ever of such magnitude as _Abury_, the diameter of the former being 99 feet, whilst the latter was 1,400; the largest stones of the former weigh 30 tons, but the latter weigh 100 tons! _Gwaith Emrys_ was possibly more for political than religious assemblies. Here was held the meeting of the Britons and Saxons, when the _Plot of the Long Knives_ (_Twyll y Cyllyll Hirion_) was consummated, and the flower of the British chiefs treacherously destroyed by their pretended friends. Different authors have strenuously contended for giving the honour of supremacy to either of these places over both Britain and Gaul, in the days of Druidism; but Rowlands has industriously placed its chief seat in Anglesey. LEATHART. * * * * * TRANSLATED EPITAPH. (_To the Editor of the Mirror_.) Quod fuit esse quod est, quod non fuit esse quod esse, |
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