Stonehenge has, we regret to learn, suffered severely in the
great gale of a fortnight back, one of the uprights having been blown down and its lintel broken across. In view of the opening at. no distant date of two railway stations at Amesbury, only a mile and a half from the stones, and the consequent influx of uncontrolled tourists afflicted with the mcoethes scribencli in one of its most objectionable forms, Lord Nelson pleads effectively in Tuesday's Times for the national supervision of what he rightly calls "one of the wonders of the world." He points out further that the stability of the remaining " trilithons " could be greatly enhanced by surface draining, that by deepening the circular vellum it might be made a real fence to the temple, and that, as careful drawings of the circle as it appeared before the gale of 1797 are preserved, the fallen trilithone might easily be restored.
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