_Pan pastorum, venatorum, & universæ vitæ rusticanæ præsidem crediderunt Antiqui_, saith _Natalis Comes_. _Pan_ was the reputed _God_ amongst the _Ancients, of Shepherds, Huntsmen, and all those that led an agrestick life_. The same Author also calling him _Piscatorum Deum_, the _God of Fishermen_ as well as _Shepherds_. _Arcadibus Deorum antiquissimus & honoratissimus est Pan_, saith _Dionysius_. _Pan is the most ancient, and most honoured Deity of the Arcadians._ And in _Arcadia_ itself where he was principally adored, they built his _Temples_ for the most part in Towns of the same _Form_ and _Order_ as to _Juno_: In the _Town of Heræa_, _habet Pan templum suum_ (saith _Pausanias_ in his description of _Arcadia_) _quod olim_ Junoni _dicatum fuit_, Pan _had his Temple which anciently was dedicated to_ Juno. Now, the _Order appropriated_ to _Juno_ by the _Romans_, was the _Ionick_, as is manifest from _Vitruvius_, who tels us, _To Juno, Diana, and Bacchus_, and to the other _Deities_ of the same quality, _they built Temples of the Ionick Order_. The _Form_ in like manner of her sacred structures was quadrangular, as in Mount _Aventine_, in _foro Olitorio_ (or the herb Market) in Mount _Quirinal_, and elswhere amongst the _Romans_ the _ruines_ of her _Temples_ do evidently witnesse: as also, her _Temples_ anciently at _Argos_, and amongst the _Elians_ in _Greece_, built of the like _Form_, and of the _Dorick Order_. But this _Antiquity_ is of the severe _Tuscane_ work, and of a round figure. The _Temples_ to _Pan_ had a _Portico_ onely in _front_, at _Stoneheng_ it continues round about the _Cell_. The _Temples_ to _Pan_ were not exposed to the open _Aire_, and built uncovered as _Stoneheng_ was, but had roofs upon them. For, _Ignis ei perpetuus ardebat_, therein _they kept perpetuall fire_, as at _Acacesium_ a _Town_ also of _Arcadians_; all _Temples_ wherein they kept such fires being covered, as the _Temple_ to _Apollo_ at _Delphos_ amongst the _Greeks_, and to _Vesta_ at _Rome_ amongst the _Romans_. But, if at any time they did erect them distant from a _Town_, reserving always the _Form_ and _Order_, they chose such situations as wholly environed with trees; for example, the _Temple_ to _Pan_ in Mount _Lycæus_, was compassed in with a thick wood, _condenso circumseptum luco_, as _Pausanias_ hath it: so likewise, that _Temple_ sacred to _Him_ in the _Parthenian_ Forrest, according to the said Author. Now, this _Temple Stoneheng_ is sited in an open champion Countrey, where scarce a bush or tree, much lesse thick woods, or forrests to be seen throughout the whole Plain; nor was there ever any in times of old as History remembers, and the nature of the soil, as I am informed, is no wise prosperous for their growing there, as is sufficiently before declared.