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It is so enclosed by trees that it is screened from the observation of 

 the passer-by, and would thus escape notice. It consists of a principal 

 upright stone (D) — a very remarkable monolith ; of a side stone (C), 

 evidently the nortbem wall of the former chamber ; and of a certain 

 number of other stones, the two principal of which (A, E) represent 

 the covering stone and what was, probably, a south wall stone of the 

 former chamber. Both of those stones are no longer in their normal 

 positions, and present themselves one overlying the other, as sliown in 



Fig. 2.— Larch Hiil. 



the plan and in the elevation (PI. XX.). There are eight stones out- 

 lying, and so disposed as to allow of their being referred to the four 

 cardinal points. The east side of the upright pillar stone (D) is practi- 

 cally north and south (X. 2° 15' W) ; while tlie western edge of the most 

 eastern stone (M) is still nearer due north and south (X. 0° 45' E.). 

 The upper edge or arras of the most northern stone (L) is due east 

 and west, while the south-west edges of the covering stone and the 

 stone underneath it (B), and the edge of a stone (J; which projects 

 eastward from underneath the covering stone at the level of the 



