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hide of some huge Jurassic Stegosaur, the rock mass 

 at the extremity being the heavily armoured snout and 

 skull of the monster. Wheatears, jackdaws and buzzards 

 were its only inhabitants, but the delicacy of the first 

 and the jauntiness of the second, dashing low and 

 parallel with the ground full speed at the stone walls 

 bounding the edges of the cliffs, and shooting perpen- 

 dicularly upwards like arrows with their depressed wings 

 for the barbs when the wind caught them full face, were 

 a relief and a contrast to its stern and sombre wildness. 

 But the buzzards, wheeling on calm wings above it, 

 expressed it to perfection and gave its ageless bulk a 

 life and meaning it lacked without them. And they 

 handed on the tradition of an older life that has passed 

 away, for even as I gazed upon them, so did the Neolithic 

 men who have left their ancient memorials on the moor. 



