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the square hole in the lower part of the wall through which I 

 had come from the loug curved gallery, and by which I was to 

 return. The floor of the Fogou is encumbered with many loose 

 stones, not only within the entrance hole and beyond it, but 

 chiefly at the ruinous southern end of the inner gallery. And 

 here I would specially remark upon the two inmost terminations 

 of the Fogou. 



That which has been already described as ruinous, ends in a 

 perpendicular face of earth which Sir Richard Vyvyan conjec- 

 tured to be a mere filling up of a former continuation of the 

 work, connected perhaps with some aperture* in the ground 

 above. He has stated that at first no walling was found here. 

 Stones have been built up against the earth at some time or 

 other, but most of them have fallen and now lie in a great heap, 

 with others which have evidently descended from the roof — more 

 are overhanging, and at this point the Fogou appears to be in a 

 somewhat dangerous condition. 



The western extremity of the curved corridor presents a 

 different appearance, being of rough rock. A raised projection 

 right across the floor near this end appears in the plans. I 

 found it to be in character different from what I expected. 

 Instead of its being a smooth, compact, hard mass, diffieult of 

 removal, it is a sharply jagged ridge, a stumbling block of 

 shattered stone, rising like an angry opponent to bar the passage. 

 With proper tools this rugged ledge might easily have been 

 cleared away. The end wall of rock further on is similar, and 

 is quite as rudely fractured instead of being cut to a smooth face. 

 Its loose contorted strata lying at a considerable angle, are 

 much split and broken. 



There would be nothing requiring particular remark in all 

 this, were it not that between the ragged impediment and the 

 end rock a small extent of level floor intervenes, with an adjacent 

 side-chamber approached through a small portal. On seeing 

 this, we are led to enquire : — Why was the shattered rock left 

 protruding from the path, when work had to be carried on just 

 beyond it, and why does the Fogou terminate here or turn aside, 

 in the form of a mere chamber ? 



*Dr. Borlase's account of Fogous shews that this may have been the case. 

 See, as examples, Bolleit Fogou and Pendeen Vau (Antiquities, pp. 273-4). 



