STATHAM ON TUE GKOLOGY OF TUIi SCILLY ISLKS. 27 
body of Sir Cloudesley Shovel was washed ashore, after the dreadful 
wreck of the " Association " and two other vessels on the 22nd Oct., 
1705, when between 1,500 and 2,000 men perished miserably — there 
is a remarkable group of rocks. As if to commemorate this terrible 
disaster, one of the piles of granite has become so curiously worn as 
to present a rude resemblance to the shipwrecked admiral, conspi- 
cuous as he was for the use of that peculiar triangular hat which is 
still called after his name. To a lively imagination the mass of stone 
in the adjoining block may present some resemblance to the admiral's 
favourite dog, which he carried continually with him, and which 
perished with him in the wreck. There are many other highly inte- 
resting masses of granite in the several islands, which afford curious 
configurations from the degradation or decomposition of the rock 
from atmospheric or other causes. The Logan Stone on the ledge 
beneath Giant's Castle, for example ; or the Tooth Eock, near 
Peninnis Head ; or the Kettle and Pans, near the same locality, which 
might afford us some convincing arguments against the theory of 
Druidical rock-basins. The curious caverns, too, which exist in these 
islands, as, for instance. Piper's Hole in St. Mary's, with its roof of 
supposed regenerated granite, having blocks or boulders imbedded in 
it, and the singular occurrence of red alternating with white granite, 
may induce some more competent geologists than myself to visit this 
interesting locality, and to increase our knowledge of the curious 
phenomena which these islands present to the careful student of the 
wonders of nature. 
