The lapse of twenty years has materially weakened my recollection of the latter, nor would this be a seasonable opportunity for such a disquisition: but the subject deserves investigation, the result of which may tend to establish the common origin of both, and to dissipate the day-dreams of Borlase, who longed to dignify the castellated ruins of the Cornish peninsula, by Ascribing them to the Roman conquerors of Britain.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
The Odd-Fellows claim a venerable antiquity for their order, the most common account of its origin Ascribing it to the Jewish legend under Titus, who, it is said, received from that Emperor the first chapter, written on a golden tablet.
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins
One idea presented itself to my mind with more force than it had ever possessed before, and that was the utter impossibility of Ascribing these ruins to Egyptian builders.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I."
John L. Stephens