BLUE LIMESTONE. 101 



perhaps from some fancied resemblance wliich this arch and the group 

 beside it bore to a ivaiu, or waggon, with its team and driver. Tiie 

 place was formerly much i-esorted to by the neighbouring swains, for 

 their amusement ; and numbers of the visitants carved their initials 

 on the stones that formed the arch: but the lintel of the arch having 

 been wantonly broken down some years ago, the group no longer 

 possesses the same interest.* Many enormous masses of this stone 

 have fallen down from their native bed, and are found in various po- 

 sitions a little below. 



A tliick bed of sandstone, apparently corresponding Avith the 

 Wain-stones bed, is found in the front of Silton hill. A large mass 

 of this rock, projecting from the face of the bed, and nearly detached 

 from it, has obtained the name of the Hanging stone, from its over- 

 hanging position; the effect of which is greatly increased by its being 

 perforated behind, the middle part of the bed having been dissolved, 

 while the upper part remains over the aperture, forming a natural arch. 



In the front of a hill, about a mile to the south of Godeland 

 chapel, where those singular British remains called the Killing Pits ■\ 

 are found, there are similar massive sandstone rocks; but they be- 

 long to a higher part of the strata, and are a kind of croiv-stone beds. 

 Near the same place, a little above Hunt House, occurs a large 

 bed of siliceous sandstone of a singular description, which may be 

 regarded as a variety of the crow-stone. It is composed of fine white 

 quartz crystals, with scarcely any cement or matrix, and having so 

 little cohesion, that the stone is easily crumbled to pieces between 

 the fingers. The sand or powder, resulting from its pulverization, is 

 used by the farmers in sharpening their scythes. 



It may be proper to observe, that though we have discovered no 

 rock on the coast corresponding with the crow-stone, the thick 



* Ibid. p. 767, 768. \ See an account of these remains, Hist, of VVLitl>y,&c. II. p. 670, &c. 



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