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 . I doubt not they will befound of interest to the reader—? If such of your Tors as the drawingsrepresent have not been formed simply by taking away parts of them(as within living memory was done in this immediate neighbourhood,to make the Bolder stone appear wonderful), I think the stones aremore likely to have been raised by mechanical means, than by therude process of
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 . I doubt not they will befound of interest to the reader—? If such of your Tors as the drawingsrepresent have not been formed simply by taking away parts of them(as within living memory was done in this immediate neighbourhood,to make the Bolder stone appear wonderful), I think the stones aremore likely to have been raised by mechanical means, than by therude process of aggeration. The largest stone at Stonehenge been raised by a three-inch cable ; and we know that the mis-chievous Lieutenant who threw down the rocking-btoue at the LandsEnd, succeeded in raising it again. The Druids themselves may not XIII.] ROCK BASINS. 229 On the top, then, of this rock, I had the pleasureof discovermg the basins before alhided to, whichconfirmed the ideas 1 had abeady formed of the pur-poses to which this tor Avas apphed. Of these, Icounted four of a perfect, and five of an imperfectform. From north-west to south-east, the length ofthe rock is seventeen feet, and it is nine feet
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