THE GEOLOGIST. 
AUGUST, 1859. 
SKETCHES FROM NOTE-BOOKS. 
No. 1.— NOTE ON SOME GRANITE-TORS. 
By T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S. 
Many of the common thing.? that occur to us in our walks and rides 
near home, and which occasionally are noted in our memorandum- 
books on account of the clearness of their featiu*es, or for the sake 
of some occasional peculiarities in the details observable in them, 
may not only often prove as useful exemplifications of natural pro- 
cesses and phenomena as facts and instances brought from any 
di.stant part of the world, but may bear repeated description and 
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