Landscape zodiac a road laid in 1782 to run around Glastonbury, and older maps dating back to the 1620s show the road had no predecessors. The Cancer boat (not a crab as would be expected) is made up of a network of eighteenth century drainage ditches and paths. There are some Neolithic paths preserved in the peat of the bog formerly comprising most of the area, but none of the known paths match the lines of the zodiac features. There is no support for this theory, or for the existence of the "temple" in any form, from conventional archaeologists or mainstream historians.
Across the Zodiac some remote place on their planet.) The book's narrator names his spacecraft the "Astronaut". The book contains what was probably the first alien language in any work of fiction. The same title was used for a later, similar book—"Across the Zodiac: A Story of Adventure" (1896) by Edwin Pallander (1869–1952) (the pseudonym of UK biologist, botanist and author Lancelot Francis Sanderson Bayly). Pallander copied some elements of Greg's plot; in his book, gravity is negated by a gyroscope. Across the Zodiac Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record (1880) is a science fiction novel by Percy Greg, who