50 RED DEER. 



toy at the foot of the vast moors, but it is 

 a mathematical fact that the spheroid form 

 concentrates more substance in a given mea- 

 surement than any other. 



Afar, too, the glance naturally rests on 

 the top, and does not observe the enlarge- 

 ment of the base. The illusion is increased 

 by the division of the summit into four 

 fields by a wall in the shape of a Maltese 

 cross. Four meadows are nothing in the 

 midst of the expanse to which one is accus- 

 tomed on the hills, but in reality the base 

 of the Ball is a very long way round. There 

 are projecting stones for steps in the wall 

 on the summit, by which it can be climbed, 

 and the path followed along the edge of 

 the Ball. The sward is hard to the foot- 

 steps, for it does but cover the rock beneath ; 

 there is grass, but no turf. Brake fern grows 

 towards the verge, and bushes and brambles 

 fringe it. Putting the foot carelessly on a 



