140 PROF. EDWAED HULL, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S._, OK 



THE CHEESEWEING, CORNWALL, AND LIS TEACH- 

 LNGS. By Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S, F.G.S. 



(Secretary). 



DEVON and Cornwall are remarkable for the number and 

 variety of objects of nature and art which are presented, at 

 intervals, to the notice of the observer both along the coast and 

 in the interior. In the former case, we have grand examples 

 of cliffs and precipices hewn by the ceaseless waves from the 

 Atlantic out of the hardest rocks, either plutonic or stratified, 

 these latter being often contorted, folded and faulted, or 

 pierced by caves and gullies ; in the latter, we have numerous 

 examples of prehistoric art in the form of stone circles and 

 dolmens, such as the Trevethy Cromlech near Liskeard (Fig. 1),* 

 and of early Christian art in the cases of stone-crosses, 

 churches, castles, and fortresses, of which Tintagel, the 

 traditional stronghold of King Arthur and his " Knights of 

 the Table Eound," immortalized by Tennyson,t is the most 

 interesting example. 



But our task here is to deal only with a work of nature, long 

 antecedent to the oldest of these monuments of bygone art, so 



I use the general term " prehistoric " for the stone circles, but it 

 must be remembered that Fergusson maintains that there is no evidence 

 of their existence either in England or France in the days of the Koman 

 occupation. Jiude Stone Monuments^ p. 20 (1872). 

 t " The Coming of Arthur " {Idylls of the King). 



