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fummit are abundance of large craggy ftones, 

 (of that fort generally called mill-ftone grit) 

 lying fcattered up and down, which, when viewed 

 from the eaft, look like the foundation or ruins 

 of fome ftupendous fabric. One of thefe 

 ftones, or rather two of them clofely joined to- 

 gether, is called the pancake; it is of an irre- 

 gular fquare form, with obtufe angles, and hath 

 upon its furface four bafons, hollowed in the 

 ftone; the largeft, being nearly in the center, 

 is capable of holding eight or ten gallons of 

 water, fome fay more : whether thefe hollows be 

 natural, or artificial, is not known. This ftone 

 I meafured, and found to be about feventy-fix 

 feet in circumference : another long uneven hole, 

 upon this ftone, is called Robin Hood's bed. 

 A little weftward of this, is another ftone, about 

 twenty feet in height, and about fifty-fix feet 

 in circumference at the bafe, but much narrower 

 at the top, from whence proceed irregular fiu- 

 tings or ridges, down one fide, of about two 

 feet long, by lome fuppofed the eff^ecl of time, 

 and by others the workmanfliip of art. More 

 weftv/ard, and nearer the valley of Greenfield, 

 the ground is called Aldermans, and overlooks 

 that valley, oppofite to a large and high rock 

 called Alphian. Upon the level of this ground, 

 is a fiflTure in the earth, about twelve or fourteen 

 vards long, each end terminating in a cavernous 

 liole in the rock, one of which is capable of ad- 

 U 3 mitting 



