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something, must Lave carried them ; for stones 

 do not fly, nor swim either. 



Shot out of a volcano? As you seem deter- 

 mined to have a prodigy, it may as well be a 

 sufficiently huge one. 



"Well — these stones lie all together ; and a 

 volcano would have hai-dly made so compact a 

 shot, not being in the habit of using Ely's wire 

 cartridges. Our next hope of a solution lies in 

 John Jones, who cai'ried up the coracle. Hail 

 him, and ask him what is on the top of that 

 cliff. . . So? "Plainshc and pogshe, and another 

 Llyn." Very good. Now, does it not strike you 

 that this whole cliff has a remarkably smooth 

 and plastered look, like a hare's run up an earth- 

 bank ? And do you sec that it is polished thus, 

 only over the lake ? that as soon as the cliff 

 abuts on tlic downs right and left, it forms 

 pinnacles, caves, broken angular boulders ? 

 Syenite usually does so in our damp climate, 

 from the " weathering " effect of frost and rain : 

 why hii3 it not done so over the lake? On that 

 part something (giants perliaps) lias been 

 scrambling uj) or down on a very large scale, 

 and so ruljbed off every corner which was in- 

 clined to come away, till the solid core of the rock 



