96 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



some lesson may be taught in unison with reason and 

 revelation. Here the evidence of the most terrible 

 event in the world's past history, stands graven in im- 

 perishable records. As certainly as we conclude that 

 some great city has been overthrown, where we see the 

 plains strewed with fallen pillars, and the fragments of 

 man's art, so may we point to the granite crags, with 

 their wondrous piles, and the huge boulders which strew 

 these hills and the adjacent vallies, as evidences that the 

 wrecks of a fallen world's greatness are here, — monu- 

 ments alike of man's guilt, and of the stroke of an 

 avenging Deity. 



It would seem, however, as if from a very early 

 period of history, the Cornish Tors had been the resort 

 of those who were in some measure enabled to appre- 

 ciate the sublime and awful in the works of God. 

 That the Druids once held their assemblies on these 

 heights, has been commonly believed. The vicinity 

 of the remains of the supposed Druidical circle, termed 

 the Hurlers, which stand at a short distance from the 

 Cheese-wring, has been considered as sufficient to place 

 this conclusion on a sure foundation. The rock-basins,* 



* Some Geologists have supposed that these remarkable 

 excavations, are the result of the Granitic substances reduced 



