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Show Stcnehenge Mystery to Students of the Past stice the sun rises when viewed from tbe Altar stone. Other pointed stones mark the rise of the sun at the winter win-ter solstice and sunset at midsummer. At few plRces In Rngland can the thoughts run riot to such an extent as In this circle of Immense stones standing stand-ing In solitude overlooking Salisbury plain. Pictures of human sniTiilce and heathen rites spring readily to Ibe imagination. 1 Ancient and mysterious Stonehenge Is located some nine miles from Salisbury, Salis-bury, and near the little' town of Amesbnry. In Wiltshire. England. This circular formation of stones encloses what Is commonly called the Altai stone. What its origin or purpose Is time or research has not revealed, but It Is obviously connected with some form of observation of the sun, pos sihly sun worship It is geuernlly be lleved to have been erected some 4.IKKI years ago. possibly by the tribe from the Continent which brought tbe Idea of cultivation of land to Rnglund In the Bronze age. To the east of the Stone circle Is the I Me stone or Friar's heel, ovei which at dawn on June 21 namely m the summer sol |