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 . ^ of the base into the body of the lowerstratum, proves that rocks, on their formation, musthave been of a soft, yielding nature. This first groupe of rocks showed no spnptomsof art; but on another pile, Avhich was fifteen feethigh, we fovmd two basins—one two feet by oneand a half; the other one foot in diameter. Therock consisted of seven layers, or strata, and theba
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 . ^ of the base into the body of the lowerstratum, proves that rocks, on their formation, musthave been of a soft, yielding nature. This first groupe of rocks showed no spnptomsof art; but on another pile, Avhich was fifteen feethigh, we fovmd two basins—one two feet by oneand a half; the other one foot in diameter. Therock consisted of seven layers, or strata, and thebasins were on the stone next to the top, whichwas small. Another pile, though much lower, weascended with the greatest difficulty. On the topof it were a few imperfect basins. But a mass ofrocks, near the latter, afforded us a very curiousspecimen of the works of the Druids. XIII.] STAPLETOR. 239. On the uppermost stone of the mass we dis-covered a basin, in deptli a foot and a quarter, withsmaller ones surrounding it, and little channels,communicating th others in a serpentine this tor we found a sheepfold between somerocks, which were serviceable in the formation of it;and were informed by another shepherd that it wasstill used. A tor, it seems, is generally appropriatedto a particular flock. Hence Ave proceeded to STAPLETOR,probably corrupted from Steepletor, as it has twoor three piles of rock of a considerable height. Onasking the old shepherd whether he thought wecould climb them, he laughed at the idea. How-ever, we determined to ascend the lowest first, whichwe did with no great difficulty, and discovered on ita basin, a foot and a half in diameter and one footdeep. This, contrary to all we had liitherto seen,was full of dirty water, which was probably occa-sioned by decayed moss. Over it hung a loftierpile, which we resolved to ascend as high as wecould,
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