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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12)

CHAPTER II
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But monuments remain which show that the Druids were not in this respect wholly confined to groves.

They had also a species of building which in all probability was destined to religious use.

This sort of structure was, indeed, without walls or roof.

It was a colonnade, generally circular, of huge, rude stones, sometimes single, sometimes double, sometimes with, often without, an architrave.

These open temples were not in all respects peculiar to the Northern nations.


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