The Collected Poems of the Late Nt Carrington volume 1
The Collected Poems of the Late Nt Carrington volume 1
Nicholas Toms Carrington
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Its quoit or covering stone has, as usual, three supporters of unequal heights, and is I4i feet long by 10 wide, with an average thickness of 1 foot 9 inches, but at one part 3 feet by 7 inches, having its angles or edges almost exact to the cardmal points, and its upper surface at one place 9^ feet, at the others 8 feet from the ground, which admits the passage beneath it of a tall man with his hat on. The under part is injured by fire and the cavity used for keeping wood and furze. The whole ...has rather a leani-ng appearance, and somewhat resembles a large irregular trapezium in shape. The gross weight is estimated at IG tons. It bears the appellation of Spinsters' Hock, from a tradition that three spinsters or unmarried women erected it one morning, before breakfast, for their amusement ! ! ! The logan is' seated in the channel of the Teign, being poised on an other j^stone, deeply engrafted in a mass of granite rocks, and unequally sided, at some parts 6, at others 7, and at the western end 10 feet in height, from east to west about 18 feet in length, and, what is remarkable, of the same size as the quoit of 174 NOTES TO DAUTMOOR.
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