A description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; its natural history, manners, customs, superstitions, scenery, antiquities, biography of eminent persons, etcin a series of letters to Robert Southey . d tempests, having neither house norrefuge near it, by divers miles. The borough ofTavestock is said to be the nearest, and yet that isdistant ten miles off. I am not inclined to agree with Prince aboutthe origin of the name of this rock, nor, from thepresent appearance of it, do I think his a correctdescription. The first thing that struck me was arock, with a fissm-e
A description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; its natural history, manners, customs, superstitions, scenery, antiquities, biography of eminent persons, etcin a series of letters to Robert Southey . d tempests, having neither house norrefuge near it, by divers miles. The borough ofTavestock is said to be the nearest, and yet that isdistant ten miles off. I am not inclined to agree with Prince aboutthe origin of the name of this rock, nor, from thepresent appearance of it, do I think his a correctdescription. The first thing that struck me was arock, with a fissm-e in the middle, mth one half of itsplit, either by art or nature, into four pretty regularsteps, each about a foot and a half high and two feetbroad.* Whether these were used as seats of emi- * Crockerntor is not entirely granite, it is partly, I believe, of trapformation. The following very curious passage from Clarks Travels,vol. iv., will bb found most interesting here:— Along this route, par-ticularly between Cana and Turan, we observed basaltic phenomena;the extremities of columns, prismatically formed, penetrated the sur- 116 TARLIAMENT-ROCK. [lET. nence at tlie assembly of tlie tinners, 1 cannot pre-tend to Before this mass, towards tlie north, is a shortledge of stones evidently piled up by art, whichmight have been a continued bench. On ascend-ing higher, I arrived at a flat area, in which,though almost covered with rushes, I could plainlytrace out four lines of stones forming an oblongsquare, twenty feet in length and six in breadth,pointing nearly east and west. The entrance seemsto have been at the north-west corner. At thenorth side, four feet distant, is another imperfect face of the soil, so as to render our journey rough and marks of regular or of irregular crystallization generally denotethe vicinity of a bed of water lying beneath their level. The traveller,passing over a series of successive plains, resembling, in their gra-dation, th
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