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Ireland, Hudson, and Winnipigon, seated upon the lofty 
hills, and surrounded by their sacred circles of stone, were 
calculating the progress of the seasons, the revolutions of 
the planets, and the eclipses of the sun, ‘by the same formu- 
lez which their ancestors had first practised in the central 
plains of Asia 
4. Rocking Stones, are memorials raised by the same 
it 5 sometimes even the touch of a finger will cause it to 
There are several of these memorials of a former race, in 
the United States of peda but of the origin of the whole 
of them we cannot be c ertain, ae an accurate account is 
published of their size, appearance. and situation, and it 
would be desirable if they were siMustr ated by correct draw- 
ings. In the State of New-York there are probably ifs 
or more. Professor Green has bene one, in the A 
tican Journal of Science, vol. 5. page 252. It is funated 
hear the top of a high bill, near rtbe village of Peekskill, in 
‘utnam county ; the moveable stone is thirty-one feet in 
circumference ; the rock is of granite, but the mica con- 
tained in it being schistose, gives it some resemblance to 
eiss, and it is supported by a base of the same material. 
‘his rocking stone can be moved by the hand, although six 
men with iron ek were unable to throw it off its pedestal. 
Silliman’s Seuiual this rock presents eve pearance of 
an artificial monument, and may perbaps th safety be 
classed amongst the celtic antiquities of merica.— 
Putnam m’s rock, which was rows from its as vation ono one 
of NewYork of whicl ic account has yet been ished. 
In the State of Massachusetts, | have heard of some 
. ston, between Lynn and Salem, but do not vouch 
the accuracy of the statement, until they undergo a 
or 
careful ‘-erenges n. 
s one at Roxbury, near Boston, described ia 
the seal of Science, edited in that city. 
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