104  Mr.  Anderson’s  Account  of  a 
I am  uncertain  whether  it  ought  to  be  confidercd  as 
the  top  of  the  hill,  or  a detached  ftone,  becaufe  there  is 
no  pofitive  proof  of  either,  unlefs  we  were  to  dig  about 
its  bafe ; but  it  would  certainly  imprefs  every  beholder, 
at  firft  fight,  with  the  idea  of  its  being  one  ftone,  not 
only  from  its  figure,  but  becaufe  it  is  really  one  folid 
uniform  mafs  from  top  to  bottom,  without  any  inter- 
ruption; which  is  contrary  to  the  general  character  of 
the  high  hills  of  this  country,  they  being  commonly 
divided,  or  compofed  of  different  ftrata,  at  leaft  if  we 
may  judge  from  the  rows  of  plants  or  fhrubs  which 
grow  on  the  fides  of  the  fteepeft,  and,  as  I fuppofe,  are 
produced  from  the  fmall.  quautity  of  earth  interpofed 
between  them.  It  has  indeed  a few  fiffures,  or  rather 
impreflions,  which  do  not  reach  deeper  than  four  or  five 
feet;  and  near  its  North  end  a ftratum  of  a more  com- 
pact ftone  runs  acrofs,  which  is  not  above  twelve  or 
fourteen  inches  thick,  with  its  furface  divided  into  little 
lquares,  or  oblongs,  difpofed  obliquely.  This  ftratum  is 
perpendicular ; but  whether  it  cuts  the  other  to  its  bafe, 
or  is  fuperficial,  I cannot  determine.  Its  furface  is  alfo 
fo  fmooth,  that  it  does  not  appear  to  have  formerly  been 
joined  to,  or  feparated  from,  any  other  part  by  violence, 
as  is  the  cafe  with  many  other  large  fragments;  but  en- 
joys the  exaft  fituation  where  it  was  originally  placed, 
and 
