THE CHEESEWRING. S 



different use ; and yet both theses sorts seem to be 

 the works of the same people ; for there is a multitude 

 of these basins which have no lips or outlets, as well 

 as those which have, to be seen in Karn-bre-hill, and 

 elsewhere, on contiguous rocks. 



"These basins are generally found on the highest 

 hills, spread on the tops of the most conspicuous 

 Karns, very numerous in some places ; and where 

 we find few of them, and perhaps none at all, it is 

 owing in all likelihood, to the many rocks which 

 have been cleft and carried off for building. 



" They are never on the sides of rocks (unless dis- 

 placed iDy violence) but always on the top, their 

 openings horizontally facing the heavens. They 

 are often found on the tops of logan, or rocking 

 stones ; wherefore they, as well as those, should 

 seem to have some affinity to, and to be in their seve- 

 ral kinds subservient, (on different occasions) to the 

 same superstition. 



" Some are found sunk into thin flat stones, but 

 they are oftner worked into more substantial and 

 massive blocks. 



" The shape of these basins is not uniform ; some 

 are quite irregular, some oval, and some are exactly 

 circular : one, I measured at Karn-bre, is a very re- 

 gular eUipsis. Their openings do not converge in 

 the top as a jar or hogshead, but ratlier spread and 

 widen, as if to expose the hollow as much as possible 

 to the skies. 



" Some have little falls into a larger basin, which 

 receives their tribute, and detains it, having no out- 

 let. Other large ones, intermixed with little ones, 

 have passages from one to another; and by success- 

 ive falls uniting, transmit what they receive into one 

 common basin, which has a drain to it, that serves 

 itself and all the basins above it. 



" The floor of these basins (if I may so call it) is 

 generally sunk to a horizontal level, or at least shel- 

 ving ; so as that whatever falls into it, may run off 

 into the next basin, then into a third, and so on ; this 



