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 . Ir^ At a is an imperfect or shallow basin; into whichcommunicates, at e, a larger one, in length three feet,width two, and depth ten inches. The bottom ofthis is flat and smooth. At j/ is a small imperfect one,the outward edge of which seems broken off. Nearit, at i, is another, 2 feet in length, and eleven inchesin depth. At / m is a basin, whose side is evidentlybrok


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 . Ir^ At a is an imperfect or shallow basin; into whichcommunicates, at e, a larger one, in length three feet,width two, and depth ten inches. The bottom ofthis is flat and smooth. At j/ is a small imperfect one,the outward edge of which seems broken off. Nearit, at i, is another, 2 feet in length, and eleven inchesin depth. At / m is a basin, whose side is evidentlybroken off. This is three feet in length, andthirteen inches deep, and communicates with fourothers; two of which are perfect, and two imperfect. have possessed either the skill or the means necessary for such ope-rations; but the Phenicians, with whonn they traded, might havehelped them; and both Dartmoor and Salisbury Plain are withineasy read) oi a sea-port. 230 ROCK BASINS. [let. It is probable there were many more basins; asthe rock on which these excavations are made, beingthin, is broken, and the line of separation runsthrough the basins. No vestiges remain of the otherpart; which probably fell to the ground, and mayn


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