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remarkable in form and outline as at first sight it might be 

 regarded as the work of man, a monument erected over the 

 grave of some prehistoric giant by his brother giants of those 

 (lays " who have left their monuments in the stone circles and 

 dolmens of Britain and Western Europe. But a closer 

 inspection dispels this illusion ; and we ultimately recognize 



Fig. 1. — THE TREVETHV CROMLECH, NEAR LISKEARD, 



that in the granitic pile of the Cheese wring and its companions 

 around of lesser size we have noble specimens of natural 

 monoliths the origin and mode of formation of which offer 

 subjects worthy of the investigation of geologists and students 

 of nature.* 



The Cheescivring. — Rising from the granitic moorland about 

 seven miles north of Liskeard in the centre of Cornwall, is the 



The Cheesewring is figured and described by tlie Rev. W. Borlase, 

 F.R.S., under the name of "The Wringcheese," and lie gives its height as 

 32 feet from the ground. He appears to have considered it as partly of 

 druidical origin. {Cornwall^ vol. ii, p. 165.) The Cheesewring is also 

 figured (Fig. 190) and briefly described by Lord Aveburv, Scenery of 

 England (1902). 



