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Daniel Gumb lived and died in the early part of the last century, 
and on which were cut several diagrams from Euclid. He re- 
gretted to inform the meeting that it had been wholly destroyed 
by quarrymen employed in the neighbourhood.—Mr. HENwoop 
asked if there had not been a definite promise from Mr. Waring- 
ton Smyth, on behalf of the Duchy, that this very interesting 
memorial should not be injured. Was its destruction a surrep- 
titious proceeding, or had there been an additional grant from the 
Duchy ?—Mr. H. M. WHITLEY replied that it was true that Mr. 
Warington Smyth had led them to understand that the house 
would be respected.—In answer to a question from Mr. St. Aubyn, 
Mr. H. M. Whitley said it had not been destroyed mischievously, 
but simply to extend the quarries in that direction ; for which, he 
believed, there was no grant. Nothing was known of the de- 
struction until after its accomplishment. 
It was understood that the matter would be made the subject 
of communication with the Duchy; Mr. St. AuByN remarking 
that if the act had been done to extend the quarries, the pro- 
prietors were responsible. 
On the reading of Mr. E. H. W. Dunkin’s Paper, on the 
Original Use of the Men-an-T6l, in the parish of Madron, exception 
was taken to Mr. Dunkin’s supposition that this perforated stone 
was a remnant of some ancient sepulchral monument, and that 
the hole was made for the purpose of enabling a person to enter 
the kist or chamber on the occasion of burials subsequent to that 
for which the structure was originally erected, and without inter- 
ference with the general stability of such structure—Dr. BARHAM 
(conceiving that Mr. Dunkin’s theory rested on a slender found- 
ation), observed that there did not appear to be remains of any 
ancient structure immediately adjacent to the Men-an-Tél. The 
three extant stones were all intact, and were not surrounded by 
any other stones of moment; and they were placed so accurately 
in line, the outer stones equi-distant from the middle one, and the 
whole having, in their direction, such a distinct relation to points 
of the compass with reference to the place of sunrise on certain 
days, that it was difficult to believe they were accidental remains 
of an ancient structure. Again, the holed stone being between 
other two, it could hardly have been an entrance-stone to the 
interior of any building. The splaying given to the holed stone 
might, perhaps, give probability to the opinion that it was used 
for the purpose of securing victims intended for sacrifice.— With 
reference to the popular superstition (adverted to by Mr. A. 
PAULL) that the Men-an-T6] was a “crick-stone” used for the 
cure of rheumatic pains and spinal diseases, it was stated, in 
answer to a question from Mr. St. AUBYN, that the diameter of 
