Archive image from page 626 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoru16rees Year: 1819 âSeveral of the mountains are, as it were, ftrewed witli blocks of granite, which, at a dillance, appear as numerous herds of cattle ; and it is this circuniltaiice which is faid to have procured tliis ridge the nan-e of Adon-fholo, a Mongolc word, denoting herd-like mountains. All thefe detached rocks are fragments of the vail ftrata of granite that compofc the greatett part of the Daiiric nioinitiiins. The fummi
Archive image from page 626 of The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature cyclopaediaoru16rees Year: 1819 âSeveral of the mountains are, as it were, ftrewed witli blocks of granite, which, at a dillance, appear as numerous herds of cattle ; and it is this circuniltaiice which is faid to have procured tliis ridge the nan-e of Adon-fholo, a Mongolc word, denoting herd-like mountains. All thefe detached rocks are fragments of the vail ftrata of granite that compofc the greatett part of the Daiiric nioinitiiins. The fummits of the Goatfield and other mountains of Arran have the appearance of luige walls conipoled of large granitic maffes. At Huelgouet, in Loner Brittany,' we are informed by Monnet, as alio in the Vofges, enormous maffes of granite are feen piled on one another, and forming moil extraordinary groups. The granite being here divided into maffes hv iiiiiircs, which are iilled up with granite pof- feffing lefs folidity, this latter is founer afted upon hy at- mofphcric agency, whence, by its difuitegration, tlie mafles become perfecT:ly detached, and adopt various pofitions. I5ut liefides the accidental groups formed by the rolling down of the rocks, there are other groups of granitic rocks at Huelgouet, that ajjjjear to be in their natural pofition, and many of them form an aflemblage of rock inafi'es, which have a perfectly rhomboidal form, and are regularly joined to each other by means oi their correfponding planes. One of the infuluted rocks in a group at Huelgouet, is called Pkrrs branhwic, or the rocking ftone: it is 21 feet long, I'even feet high, and eight feet wide, and its cubical content is 1160 feet; it is fo accurately poifed on the edge of an- otlier rock, which ferves for its bale, that the llrength of a few men fufiiees to change its centre of gravity, and to communicate an ofcillatory motion to it. The phenomenon of the rocl'ing Jlones is not unknown in this count
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