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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine: July, 1832
Gibbon, who quotes Herodian, lib. V. Informs us that the Sun was wor shipped at Emesa, under the form of a black conical stone. And where was Emesa? A city in Phoenicia! The country, by whose early navigators it is universall allowed Druidical know ledge was st introduced and pro mulgated amongst the aboriginal Bri tons. Now refer to King, who with out the least consciousness of the 1m portance (according to my view) of this point in his account of Stone henge, published in the year 1799, writes as follows In the front of this last (one of the trilithons), at the distance of about twelve feet, was placed on the very ground, and partly sunk into it, A great black stone and further on it is of a quite different and harder kind than the rest, as being designed to resist the effects of fire. But it is evident that the cause here assigned, why this stone should di?'er in species from the rest, is erro neoua; for Dr. Smith, another writer on Stonehenge, tried a fragment of it in a crucible; it soon changed to an ash colour, and in a stronger heat was reduced to powder.
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