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expected to find had they been elevated only a few feet 

 above the high-water level." 



"This beach of stones was in the vicinity of a detached 

 block of 19*5 tons, a little farther seawards." 



" Towards the north-east, at the level of 72 feet above 

 the sea, in addition to many smaller blocks, which had 

 evidently been recently detached, there was one 54. tons in 

 weight. Within 20 feet of the spot where it lay, there 

 appeared a comparatively recently formed void in the rock, 

 which, upon examination and comparison by measure- 

 ment, was found to suit exactly the detached block. Here, 

 then, was a phenomenon so remarkable as almost to stagger 

 belief a mass of 5^ tons, not only moved at a spot which 

 is 72 feet above high-water spring-tides, but actually 

 quarried from its position in situ. But higher up still 

 there was another detached rock, weighing no less than 1 3-^ 

 tons, tilted up in a peculiar position, and underneath which 

 numerous angular masses had been .wedged, obviously by 

 aqueous action. This great block, however, was unlike the 

 one first described, in bearing no traces of recent displace- 

 ment" 



"Though covered with lichen, and apparently long 

 undisturbed, yet there can be no doubt that it too had 

 been separated from the parent clifif, and been tilted up 

 into the position which it now occupies by no other 

 agency than that of the sea, the high-water margin of 

 which is 74 feet below it." Mr. Stevenson gives also 

 other testimony, one in particular of a block of nearly " 8 

 tons driven before the waves at a level of 20 feet above the 

 sea, for a distance of 73 ft, over rugged blocks, and of 

 another block of many tons' weight, pointed out by an 

 inhabitant, moved upwards in a great storm some years 

 back, 15 to 20 on the incline to 50 ft. above sea-level. 



