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as far as the eye can reach, and much farther to the 

 West and North- West, may be regarded as a truly 

 primitive region. There is no portion of the earth's 

 surface which has perhaps undergone less change, 

 during the lapse of ages. On just such a scene as this 

 might Noah have stept out of the Ark. The mighty 

 devastations of the deluge are nowhere more visible 

 than here. Blocks of granite of all sizes and forms, 

 some half buried beneath the soil, others naked and 

 bare, or covered only with the hoary lichen, lie scat- 

 tered about in all directions, bearing every where the 

 marks of a tremendous convulsion which must have 

 torn them from their native beds, and hurled them up 

 and down with the same facility, as a child projects his 

 balls or marbles on the floor. Amidst these ruins of a 

 former world, there is no spot which affords stronger 

 evidences of the mighty agencies which must have been 

 formerly at work here than the Tor, commonly called 

 the 'Cheese- wring,' from its resemblance to that kind of 

 press in which cheeses are placed to drain in this coun» 

 ty. This rocky pile consists of several huge blocks. 

 The upper form of these rest upon a similar number, 

 which are so much smaller, and on every side so appa- 

 rently disproportionate to sustain the weight of those 



