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and place of origin in the north-east of Scotland, a district which 

 would seem therefore to have had strongly marked individual 

 characteristics from a very early period. 



Such circles as formerly existed in the south-east and centre 

 of Scotland have been destroyed without any trustworthy account 

 of them having been preserved. In this respect the comparison 

 which I have ventured to make between the circles of Scotland 

 and of Cornwall turns in favour of the latter, though even in 

 Cornwall vigilance is still necessary, for on revisiting the 

 "Stripple Stones" last summer I found that a wall which I did 

 not remember to have seen on my first visit had taken the place 

 of a great part of the ditch and of two of the quite unique 

 projections from it, which are figured in Mr. Lukis' plan 

 published by the Society of Antiquaries. 



