60 (} WONDERS OF ART, 
Pliny relates that at Harpasa, a town of Asia, there 
rock of such a wonderful nature, that, if touched with tn 
^tiger, it would shake, but could not be moved frono .' 
place with the whole force of die body, Ptolemy Hephist*®^ 
ment'ons a stone of this description near the Ocean, which 
agitated when struck by die stalk of the plant asphodel, or day 
lily, but could not be removed by a g;reat exertion of 
Another is cited by Apollonius Rhodius, supposed to 1’*'^ 
been raised in the time of the Argonauts, in the 
Tenos, as the monument of the two- winged sons of Bore 
slain by Hercules ; and there are others in China, and 
other countries. 
Many rocking stones are to be found in different 
Great Britain ; some natural, and others artificial, or 
in their position by human art. That the latter are 
ments erected by th.e Druids cannot be doubted ; . u 
tradition has not handed down the precise purpose for "'n 
they were intended. In the parish of St. Levcn, Cnruvi^^^i 
there is a promontory called Castle Treryn. On the wc= 
side of the middle group, near the top, lies a very large stn 
so evenly poised, that a hand may move it from one 
the other : yet so fixed on its base, tliat not any lever, pr 
mechanical force, can remove it from its pre.sent ,iu 
It is called the logan-stone, and is at such a height 
the ground as to rendcjj it incredible that it was raised 
present position by art. 'Phere are, however, oilier 
It IS 30 feet in 
eircr 
iH' 
TywiJuek, i:i Wales, is considered, ,l ay ; 
fereuce, and four feet (hick at a medium, and stauth .. ^ 
single pede.stal. In the Idand of St. Agues, SciU,y> 
remarkable stone of tiie same kind. 
The under rock 
: gdd’ 
with not more than half its base. The upper rock 
o.ic point only, and is so nicely balanced, ti-.at two y 
nw'TT vl’iilf n nnl.' ran mrwf> if Tf i« ftl- lu<rh, 
feet high, 47 feet round the middle, and touches the S p|i 
The upper rock 
men wilh a polo can move it. It is 81 feet high, !>r>‘ ^ 
oircuniference. On the top is a bason hollowed out| 
11 inches in diameter at a medium, but wider at thp ^ 
and 3 feet in depth. From the globular shape of 
stone, it is highly probable that it was rounded by 
art, a:id perhaps even placed on its pedestal hy ^ 
