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her of discs or slabs be superposed, and the lower ones more 

 exposed to the weather, and to catch the dripping and drifting 

 water from the upper, we should get a formation exactly like 

 the Cheesewring, which may be called an incipient compound 

 rocking-stone, in that each slab is worn away at the edges, 

 and the lower ones much more than the upper, so that if left 

 alone, which it won't be, and if it does not topple over too 

 soon, which it probably will, it might well end in a rocking- 

 stone. I should not. be surprised if it rocked now in a 

 great storm. 



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