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Content summary: 12 April 1806 : copy of letter from William Cunnington to A B Lambert – Thanks him for Mr Cambry's book 'I had often heard of a grand monument at Carnac and as often wished to know something of its history, but I am sorry to find that like our Abury and Stonehenge we have only a conjectural account. That it was raised for astronomical purposes as Mr Cambry conjectures – may be true but I should doubt it _ On contemplating such works as these at Carnac the ….shire Abury & Stonehenge we are soon convinced that they are of very high antiquity; if there was anything belonging to these monuments that had any infinity of ideas we might have received from reading history such things might furnish us with a clue to unraveling their history. We knew from ancient and modern history that there were and are now stone monuments in every quarter of the Globe, but we know nothing from such documents that throw any satisfactory light upon them. I have sometimes been led to think that it was the Stupendous Monuments of Stone[unless you were to visit Abury with Stukeley in your had you can have no conception of the Magnitude of this work] found in every quarter of the Globe that first led nations to believe in their Titans or Giants, but as the tradition of Giants is very ancient to what remote period we must go back for people possessing arts to raise such works? Was this antediluvian knowledge retained by Noah's posterity for many ages after the flood & then lost.

Summary: 12 April 1806 : copy of letter from William Cunnington to A B Lambert – Thanks him for Cambry's books. Discussion of stone monuments every quarter of the globe. first led nations tradition of giants.