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that a rude ftone pillar was once worfhipped upon 

 this hill; and the ftone called pancake, the altar, 

 and the ftones now lying difperfed about, once 

 formed (though of rude materials) an heathen 

 temple, which upon the prevalence of chriftia- 

 nity, and the rife of more enlightened times, 

 was deftroyed, nay, is even to this day wafting 

 more and more. 



I was informed when there, that young people 

 would aflemble in fine weather, and with iron 

 crows, and levers, amufe themfelves by remov- 

 ing thefe large and ponderous ftones from off 

 each other, for the purpofe of trying how far 

 they would tumble, and how long they would be 

 in rolling down the floping hills. Thus we fee the 

 devouring teeth of time, determined, fcarcely to 

 leave one ftone upon another upon this once fa- 

 cred ground. 



At Mow-Cop in Cheftiire, is a rude upright 

 ftone pillar, called the Oldman at Mow, and 

 faid, by the country people, to be an idol, per- 

 haps once ufed for idolatry, at the fame time 

 with this in Saddleworth. 



Accouni 



